Lawyer of the Day: Sen. David Vitter
Thanks to Senator David Vitter for making it so easy to pick our Lawyer of the Day. From today's Washington Post:
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) apologized last night after his telephone number appeared in the phone records of the woman dubbed the "D.C. Madam," making him the first member of Congress to become ensnared in the high-profile case.The statement containing Vitter's apology said his telephone number was included on phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates dating from before he ran for the Senate in 2004....
"This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter, 46, said in a statement....
This is not the first time Vitter has found himself in a sticky situation:
During his Senate campaign, Vitter was accused by a member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee of carrying on a lengthy affair with a prostitute in New Orleans's French Quarter. In a radio interview, Vitter then called the allegation "absolutely and completely untrue" and dismissed it as "just crass Louisiana politics."
We believe him. The French Quarter? How tawdry!
For a Harvard grad and Rhodes Scholar like Vitter, only the high-class escorts of Pamela Martin & Associates -- college-educated women, including at least one Ph.D. -- would do.
(Random speculation: Might Senator Vitter have been a client of the Akin Gump Escort?)
Senator's Number on 'Madam' Phone List [Washington Post]
Sen. Vitter Apologizes for Number Showing Up on Phone Records of Alleged Prostitution Ring [Fox News]
(18) Comments
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Harvard undergrad, Rhodes scholar, and then...Tulane Law School? This guy has made bigger life mistakes than sleeping with a prostitute.
The Congressman is corrupt and the Senator likes prostitutes. Thank God for Louisiana!
hey 10:18 genius, have the Rhodes people gotten back to you yet?
The leftists made him do it.
10:18 -- quite often, people with aspirations for public office choose to attend schools in their home states. It hits home with the electorate at a much greater rate than a degree from the Ivy League -- probably even more so in the south. (For example, John Edwards and Lindsey Graham both attended state law schools)
Not everyone is an elitist, yeesh
Can anyone explain why prostitution is illegal? Is it a "woman friendly" law, designed to make marriage more appealing?
10:47: I think you should ask self-described "family values" conservatives like Vitter, maybe even that Haggard guy in Colorado. I'm sure they can find plenty of reasons why.
hey 10:18
where did you go to law school? Some T4 dump?
Wildcat -- Edwards attended state schools because he was poor, and Graham did because he is a straight up idiot.
From CNN:
"This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter said. "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and from my wife in confession and marriage counseling."
He talks to God as well! Another fucking Republican religious hypocrite
It's worth pointing out what Vitter's wife had to say about the Clinton/Lewinsky affair:
"Asked by an interviewer in 2000 whether she could forgive her husband if she learned he'd had an extramarital affair, as Hillary Clinton and Bob Livingston's wife had done, Wendy Vitter told the Times-Picayune: 'I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me.'"
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/10/29/lousiana_race/index.html?pn=3
Have at it, Wendy.
10:47 -- It's illegal to pay a woman to have sex with you... unless you videotape it and sell it on the Internet.
LOL - TULANE LAW SCHOOL
HAHAHAHAHAHA
11:09,
If you read his quote he does not say he spoke to God. He is a Catholic and the quote says he received forgiveness from God through confession. I assume he spoke to a priest in confession and was forgiven. Don't see anything hypocritical. He sinned and confessed to his priest. That is what catholics are supposed to do when they sin. Catholics believe in forgiveness. They understand that we are all humans and imperfect.
The NYT piece has this quote from his wife about cheating (made with reference to Hillary forgiving Bill):
“I’m a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary,” Wendy Vitter told Newhouse News. “If he does something like that, I’m walking away with one thing, and it’s not alimony, trust me.”
You think she cut his penis off?
Song of Deborah
...They chose new gods; then was war in the gates.. Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song.. the LORD made you have dominion over the mighty... Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of justice against the mighty... Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD.. And the land rest forty years. Judges 5.
Deborah Palfrey deserves the Pemberton Award for Clean Governance.
Palfrey list is like the Black Book of 1918.
That Trial of the century is deleted from all books.
The list there had 47000 names.
The list here has 46000 phone bills.
The listed are not womenizers, machos or ordinary sinners.
They are power brokers, gay lutheran shock and awe blitzkrieg agitators of all wars and all panics.
These wretches are one dirty cover to the real pimps deep undercover.
A curse on the kingpinps, Justice Charles Darling then and Judge Adolph Limbough Kessler now.
Noel Pemberton-Billing
Trial of the Century 1918