Rod Jetton says strip club bill was doomed because he didn’t like Matt Bartle

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Missouri House Speaker and alleged woman beater Rod Jetton told a St. Louis newspaper that he has little doubt that a federal grand jury is investigating him for pay-for-play allegations involving campaign donations that watered down a bill regulating the porn industry.

Jetton told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he didn’t take money from the adult entertainment industry to gut a bill from state Sen. Matt Bartle regulating the industry.

However, Jetton admitted assigning the bill to Lee’s Summit state Rep. Bob Johnson‘s committee because he knew Johnson didn’t like Bartle or the legislation.

“Bob Johnson didn’t like Senator Bartle. And I didn’t much

care for Senator Bartle. He was a pompous, arrogant senator and he

liked to get his way,” Jetton said. “I knew that Johnson was not going

to buckle under pressure from Bartle. Johnson wanted the bill. He

specifically told me.”

Jetton assigned the bill to an unfriendly committee — days after a

political action committee with connections to Jetton adviser Don Lograsso accepted a $35,000 donation from the adult entertainment industry.