Posted on 07/09/2007 11:28:34 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. David Vitter apologized Monday for his telephone number showing up on the old phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates, the alleged prostitution ring run in the nation's capital by Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
"This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter said in a statement.
"Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there --with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way," he wrote.
The acknowledgment from Vitter, a Republican who recently won praise from conservatives for his opposition to the immigration reform bill, comes days after U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler lifted a restraining order, allowing Palfrey, 51, to distribute pages of phone records that she and her attorney said contains up to 15,000 names.
On Monday, she released the numbers on her Web site.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Only two types of scandals can harm a Louisiana poltician-—Being found in bed with a dead woman or a live man.
Neither, it seems, can harm a Kennedy, though...
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This is what bothers me so much about amnesty. If lawmakers are passing laws that they believe a certain group is justified to break, why shouldn't we all be able to break any law we want?
Once the Iowa state Capitol building was filled with Mexican immigrants "demanding" their right to a drivers license. Of course, there was no way to know who was legal and who was illegal but there were probably many (if not hundreds) who were illegal.
But the lawmakers did nothing to ask that this group be checked for status. Then they collectively pass more laws expecting the rest of us to abide by them. It was an event I'll never forget. We had Capitol police all over the place but none were checked.
All they had to do was have an officer stand at each entrance and start checking.
Your opinion means little concerning your grasp of the facts.
I don’t think we can compare this to BJ. He is a serial offender. This guy mad up with his God and his wife (how hard would that be?) before his ‘crime’ was public knowledge. That in itself says a fair bit about Vitter’s character.
Doesn't look like he got it to me.
Most of the married people I know are faithful to their spouse. The few that drifted did so in somewhat a spontaneous way. I don't know anyone who called a prostitute to get their jollies.
Did he do it once? Did he do it fifty times? Does it matter to anyone, really, except his wife, himself and the prostitute(s)?
Did he ask for just any body or was he more specific as to his wants. I've never called for a prostitute so I don't know how many options are offered. I mean do you ask for a particular age, hair color, personality, bra size, race, foot size, sexual position or style, citizenship, sincerity, speed, etc.
On the special occasion, did they linger before or after? Enjoy a few drinks? Neck? Striptease? Dance naked? Peruse the possibility of a sexual toy or two?
During the act, did he realize that he could have gotten the same thing from his wife or did that not occur to him until later, when he called to ask how her day was?
And what about the yuck factor? Didn't he kind of wonder who had been there before him? How long ago? What sexual diseases they might have been host to?
Did it not bother him that he was possibly putting his marriage and career on the line? And if so, was he still able to rise to the occasion or did he require special care and nurturing?
Did he sort of do the same old thing he and the missus usually do, or did he try something new? Is sampling a different woman any different, really, than trying out a new pizza place?
Anyway, enough.
I’m certainly glad my final Judge will be a bit more merciful....
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4850.html
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Vitter briefly considered a run for governor, but bowed out in May 2002, citing strains on his marriage. He announced that he and his wife had entered counseling.
“This wasn’t in response to any dramatic issue or event, but to the cumulative stress from working in a high-pressure job, living in two cities, building a house, raising four young kids including a newborn, having our campaign activities based at home and traveling the state considering running for governor,” Vitter said in the 2002 statement.
A week after the announcement, Vitter was forced to publicly address allegations that he had visited a New Orleans bordello, according to the Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, La. He denied the charge, calling it “a rumor and attack campaign” led by enemies to destroy his character and name.
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Back during the ‘02 rumors, it was well known among Louisiana inside political circles what the issue was. I predict this won’t be much of an issue, except amongst the Gannetoids and others in the Drive-By Media. When Vitter runs for re-election in 2010, I’m voting for him.
You’re equating cussing/losing my temper/not keeping the Sabbath to adultery?
Oh, come on, what’s a little moral relativism? He’s a republican! Have to protect “our” own.
(Yeah, a little sarcasm to start my day.)
I don’t agree.
He won’t. I think most of the voters here knew there was a “there” there several years ago. By saying that he and his wife had undergone marriage counseling was a tacit admission of something awry.
Besides, hasn’t the Drive-By Media has decreed if the story is about sex, it “doesn’t matter?” To them, this shouldn’t even have been a story.
... because the Democrats are in full campaign mode, and Vitter is a Republican.
Ironic that you mentioned the lobbyist Bob Livingston: Vitter succeeded Livingston in the House in the 1998 special election.
Last year Livingston’s son, who was in his early thirties, was electrocuted in a power line accident.
The seat is now held by gubernatorial frontrunner Bobby Jindal.
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