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Adult website founder supports Ron PaulSeptember 20, 2011 | Lance WilliamsChris Keane/ReutersRepublican presidential candidate Ron PaulZivity.com says it is “full of hotness” – an adult website loaded with Playboy-style images of aspiring supermodels, nude or in lingerie.The social networking site allows “people just like you (to) rub elbows with models, photographers and video artists,” it says. For $9 per month, subscribers also are offered “exclusive access to model chats.”This political season, Zivity’s 35-year-old chairman and co-founder has emerged among a handful of California money men supporting U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, 75, the Texas libertarian running for the Republican presidential nomination.Scott Banister, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded the San Francisco-based Zivity with his wife, has donated $2,500 to Paul’s low-budget campaign and another $5,000 to Paul’s Liberty PAC political action committee. Both are the maximum donations allowed by law.In addition, Banister has put up a $1,000 prize for “the best short film to promote Ron Paul,” according to his posting on Prizes.org.“I want something original, creative, and bold with people on screen,” he wrote.Paul has raised only $310,000 in California for his long-shot presidential bid, but it got a boost last weekend. He won the straw poll at the GOP state convention in Los Angeles, beating better-funded Republicans such as Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.RelatedTexan Rick Perry buoyed by Calif. cashObama attracts new Calif. bundlers, many old ones sit on sidelines3Donate NowLike our content?Help us do more.Report an error: See something wrong in this story?E-mail our editors.Federal records show that besides Banister, only two other Californians have given maximum donations to both Paul’s campaign and his PAC this year.In a phone interview, Banister described himself as a libertarian with strong interest in free speech issues.Paul is the candidate most committed to “restoring the limits of the Constitution,” he said.“I don’t really care if Ron Paul and I have exactly the same personal views about naked women on the Internet,” he said. “What matters is what he would do as an elected candidate.“He’s very committed to following the limits of the Constitution.”According to biographies posted online, Banister attended the University of Illinois. In 1996, he moved to California, where he became a board member of the online payment service PayPal. Later, he played a role in a series of successful Silicon Valley startups, including IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007 for $830 million. Today, he describes himself professionally as an “entrepreneur and angel investor.”
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