Rep. Dan Pabon, the guy in the blue shirt and a Denver Democrat, is surrounded by Republican lawmakers who supported an amendment prohibiting welfare benefits from being withdrawn from ATM machines at strip clubs.During a budget debate on the House floor tonight, Democrat Rep. Dan Pabon and a group of Republican lawmakers offered an amendment dealing with a hot topic that’s been debated before: ATM withdrawals of welfare money at strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores.
A bill sponsored by Pabon to prohibit that practice passed the House but died in the Senate two years ago.
Congress has since passed a nearly identical measure, and some House Republicans wanted to comply with the new federal law by offering the ban in a budget amendment. They asked Pabon, apparently a guy ahead of his time, for his support. Gladly, the assistant majority leader said.
But Democrats defeated the amendment, which didn’t go unnoticed by House Minority Leader Mark Waller, R-Colorado Springs, who gleefully pointed out to Pabon how his own caucus just rolled its third-ranking member.