John Key admits to visiting strip clubs
{{date|August 21, 2007}}

{{New Zealand}}A huge political storm has erupted around [[w:Australia|Australia]] after labor leader [[w:Kevin Rudd|Kevin Rudd]] was found to have gone to a strip club during a taxpayer funded trip. This caused many people to ask their country's politicians questions. [[w:John Key|John Key]], leader of New Zealand's National Party, has openly admitted to visiting a strip club after being posed the question by reporters.

However, unlike Rudd, Key never visited the club when he was a politician, nor on an official trip, when he went to the two strip clubs. The two trips Key has made was once as a business trip at New York while working the finance industry, and the second for a stag night in New Zealand.

[[w:Helen Clark|Helen Clark]], prime minister of New Zealand, refused to comment on the visits by Key and Rudd, but did say she, as a woman, saw it as inappropriate entertainment.

Key takes the position, however, that he would never visit a strip club now.

== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4172833a10.html
|title=Key open about strip club visits
|author=|pub=Stuff|date=August 21, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10458959
|title=Key says he visited strip club
|author=Newstalk ZB and agencies|pub=The New Zealand Herald
|date=August 21, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/1314221
|title=Key comes clean about strip clubs
|author=Newstalk ZB and One News|pub=One News|date=August 21, 2007}}

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[[Category:Kevin Rudd]]
A huge political storm has erupted around Australia after labor leader Kevin Rudd was found to have gone to a strip club during a taxpayer funded trip. This caused many people to ask their country's politicians questions. John Key, leader of New Zealand's National Party, has openly admitted to visiting a strip club after being posed the question by reporters.

However, unlike Rudd, Key never visited the club when he was a politician, nor on an official trip, when he went to the two strip clubs. The two trips Key has made was once as a business trip at New York while working the finance industry, and the second for a stag night in New Zealand.

Helen Clark, prime minister of New Zealand, refused to comment on the visits by Key and Rudd, but did say she, as a woman, saw it as inappropriate entertainment.

Key takes the position, however, that he would never visit a strip club now.
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