Kinder responded and said he had visited the club around 1994 and met Chapman, and that he had not seen her again until the chance encounter in 2011. Chapman confirmed that the two had not spoken since the mid 90s until she saw him in 2011 and approached him to take a picture. Kinder said that, sometime around 1994, after going to the club he decided not to go back because it was inconsistent with how he had been raised. Kinder stated that Chapman's story was part of a "partisan smear" to derail his campaign for governor. Kinder further said that Democrats tried to use similar tactics against him in his 2008 campaign for lieutenant governor.
