The small Colorado town that elected a former stripper as its mayor has decided it has had enough.
After a year of scandal, intrigue, talk of exposed breasts and reports of physical assault, Georgetown has voted to recall Koleen Brooks, admitting that the publicity generated by a motorbike-ridingformer lap-dancer - but no experience of public office - was not worth the trouble.
The vote attracted a record turn-out in the town, which has a population of 1100, and Brooks was tossed out of office by 176 votes to 339.
Shortly after she was elected last April it became clear she did not know how to chair a meeting and could not function without her personal assistant, a photographer who took several candid shots of her for the election campaign.
Within a month she became embroiled in a scandal over whether she flashed her breasts in a local bar. Later, she was investigated for making threats against one of the town's two policemen.
In February, she claimed she was assaulted by one of her growing band of political enemies. The police did not believe her and next week she is due in court on charges of evidence-tampering and making a false report.
Discussing her defeat on television, Brooks vowed she would be back for next year's election before asking: "OK, can I go to the bar now?"
