Two members of Liquor Control Commission resign

Two members of the Liquor Control Commission have resigned, leaving the commission without a quorum and canceling its meeting scheduled for Wednesday.

Gov. Jim Pillen’s office said Chairman Bruce Bailey and Commissioner Kim Lowe resigned at his request, leaving one remaining member on the three-person commission. The resignations follow Pillen’s rejection Friday of a proposed rule change that would have lifted a ban on customers touching employees of strip clubs. It also follows the unsealing of a federal indictment Wednesday charging the commission’s former executive director, Hobert Rupe with receiving sex acts and cash from Lincoln strip clubs in return for preferential treatment.

Bailey and Lowe also served on the Medical Cannabis Commission, which will now have two open seats on the five-person commission.