The latest political spouse to attract unexpected attention is Janet Huckabee, who decided to stay in Las Vegas last weekend -- at the notably unwholesome Hooters Hotel Casino -- rather than travel with her husband and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to the Cayman Islands.

Arkansas' former first lady apparently wasn't trying to avoid the sunny Caribbean weather in mid-winter, but instead was attending a middleweight prize fight featuring boxer Jermain Taylor, also known as the "pride of Arkansas."

The Baptist minister's wife told The San Francisco Chronicle that she wasn't expecting the crunch time in her schedule to force her to switch her accommodations from the hotel where the bout was fought to Hooters Casino Hotel.

"I had a room at the MGM Grand," she said, but canceled it for fearing of missing her flight out of Sin City. "A friend had two rooms (at Hooters) ... it was the only thing, quite frankly, that was available because the fights were in town."

Huckabee said she and Taylor are longtime friends, and she wanted to offer him support during Taylor's title bout against Kelly Pavlik over the weekend. Pavlik won the fight in a unanimous score though Taylor landed a greater percentage of the punches he threw.

Other guests attending the fight were celebrities Jack Nicholson, Michael Jordan, Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone. None of them apparently rushed to leave Las Vegas to campaign with the Huckabees. Stallone, in particular, has said he's a fan of Huckabee's primary opponent, John McCain.Click here to read The San Francisco Chronicle.