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Paper: Vitter Was Repeat Customer
Well, at least it wasn't during Lent. From The Times-Picayune:
A phone number for Sen. David Vitter, R-La., appears at least five times in the billing records of what federal authorities say was a Washington call-girl operation, the first just four months after he was sworn in to the U.S. House in 1999 and the last on Mardi Gras of 2001.Under pressure earlier this week, Vitter acknowledged committing a "very serious sin" and that his number showed up in the records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who has come to be known as the "Washington, D.C. Madam." An attorney for Palfrey earlier said that Vitter's number was found once in the records, but a search of the documents by The Times-Picayune turned up four more calls to a number once registered to Vitter. The attorney said that clients also used phones in hotel rooms, so that not all the numbers can be traced to individual callers.
The records show that Vitter number was called by Palfrey's service beginning Oct. 12, 1999 and ending Feb. 27, 2001, which was Mardi Gras. Palfrey has said she was running an escort service that her employees were instructed not to engage in sex acts. But federal prosecutors say she was running a prostitution ring that netted more than $2 million in assets.
Records show that the return calls to Vitter's number generally lasted a minute or two and were placed in the evening. The phone number had a Washington, D.C., exchange. Vitter keeps an apartment in Washington where he stays while Congress is in session.
Comments (34)
ann wrote on July 12, 2007 10:18 AM:Today, Louisiana blogs are buzzing with rumors that surfaced back in 2004 about Vitter's "love child" now living in Alexandria, VA. Kos referred to it back in 2006, assuming most citizens of LA were aware of it. I can tell you that most citizens here were NOT aware of it.
Chris wrote on July 12, 2007 10:34 AM:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/25/0599/1603
If this man is allowed to continue, it's really a tragedy. What a disgusting hypocrite. Do something about it Louisiana.
Anonymous wrote on July 12, 2007 10:52 AM:He likes the night life.
What?! wrote on July 12, 2007 11:17 AM:He likes to boogie.
His forgiveness from his wife seems to be from his infidelity in LA cathouses in the mid 1990's wasn't it? So these allegations out of D.C. would be after the original sin, would it not?
dee illuminati wrote on July 12, 2007 12:01 PM:What I find astonishing is that his self-esteem was so low that he would actually pay for sex... I mean honestly guys, if your paying for it.. in a commercial transaction.. something ir REALLY wrong and that behaviour insane when a spouse and children is involved.
It is a consistent observation similar to the book true-believer by Eric Hoffer that the more religous one asserts himself to be, that they attempt to 'escape themselves' and are in most cases, 'most' cases.. the moste depraved of all.
It goes to fear, uncertainty, and doubt...
This type of individual is ripe for compromise and I have no condemnation for him for the sex acts, just the lurid and insidious circumstances that these 'plastic people' find themselves in.
As if public positions can accrue self-esteem, or a public soptlight creates it..
This guy reminds me of McGreavey and yet is so common of most people
Redshift wrote on July 12, 2007 12:05 PM:No, Senator Vitter, it's not just a "very serious sin," it's illegal. Your wife can forgive you for the infidelity and embarrassment, and your God can forgive you for the sin, but that doesn't change the fact that lawmakers who repeatedly break the law should not be tolerated.
Redshift wrote on July 12, 2007 12:07 PM:dee -- I refer you to the inimitable Rude Pundit for a probable explanation.
Security code: safe (as in "safe word"? ;-)
TomInMaine wrote on July 12, 2007 12:17 PM:Throw this bum out, replace him with a democrat, change the balance in the Senate so that we can let Joe LieberJEW defect to the Rebups and nobody will care.
Wishful thinking, but man would it be nice to get rid of this piece of crap and at the same time throw Joe LieberJEW on the ash heap of history as totally irrevelant.
JNagarya wrote on July 12, 2007 12:58 PM:Throw this bum out, replace him with a democrat, change the balance in the Senate so that we can let Joe LieberJEW defect to the Rebups and nobody will care.
Wishful thinking, but man would it be nice to get rid of this piece of crap and at the same time throw Joe LieberJEW on the ash heap of history as totally irrevelant.
Posted by: TomInMaine
Date: July 12, 2007 12:17 PM
Thank you for revealing your anti-Semitism.
There are assholes who are not Jews. _Ergo_, Lieberman is not an asshole because he's a Jew; Lieberman is an asshole because he's an asshole.
regular lurker wrote on July 12, 2007 1:34 PM:Politicians' sexual adventures are so incredibly boring. The only people who get off on reading about it are folks who aren't having sex. Personally, I think prostitution should be legalized.
Now the sanctimonious holier-than-thou crap, that's the real sin in my eyes and for that, Vitter should resign.
POed Lib wrote on July 12, 2007 1:43 PM:This behavior of fucking whores over and over and over reveals that this toad is not only incredibly bold and brash, but is also takes incredible risks.
Why would someone risk his career, his family and his wife for getting laid? Someone who cannot be trusted for anything.
This clown needs to have his dick cut off, by either his wife or by the public.
POed Lib wrote on July 12, 2007 1:45 PM:Did anyone watch that complete fuckwad Tucker Carlson who now is of the opinion that hypocrisy is NOT a critical factor? Someone should do a little oppo research on ol' Tucker, and pass it along to him. I just bet he has something juicy in the past.
Steve Garrett wrote on July 12, 2007 2:05 PM:It's just a matter of time before he discovers he has a problem and has to enter rehab until this blows over.
Personally I could easily forgive him for hiring a prostitute if he hadn't publicly condemned the same activity on several occasions.
He should either state he is unfit to serve public office and resign just like he claimed Clinton was unfit to serve after Monica or he should apologize to Clinton for his remarks. Of course the later would assure that the Republicans would throw him out of office for committing the unforgivable sin of apologizing to a Clinton.
God wrote on July 12, 2007 2:07 PM:Press Release: Senator Vitter is mistaken in saying that I forgave him and condoned his sexual acts with prostitutes. I have spoken with Sen. Vitter only a couple of times in the last dozen years, and subjects were only about stopping the rain or making the golf ball go in the hole.
- God
dee illuminati wrote on July 12, 2007 2:08 PM:Redshift
the 'safe word' that Vitter used as a prostitute shoved a zuchinni up his rectum was the Sec code:
"wound"
as in his image is 'wounded' simply from cavorting with prostitutes...
and yes I have Buzzflash and FreeRepublic in my news links and I'll have to get by for a read of the rude pundit who's commentary is more designed to evoke laughter than any serious political argumemnt...
I just call em as I see em, and can't "make this crap up."
Again if Vitter was the type of dirty sock sucker who would leap face first into a dirty basket of laundry and vociferously work a sock.. well that was one thing... but no, a genuine dyed in the wool hypocrite and liable to coersion and compromise.
LOL
Harmonika wrote on July 12, 2007 2:09 PM:I don't know whether this story bothers me so much as discovering that the market rate for a blowjob in Florida has dropped to a mere $20! As usual, those who are doing sloppy work have cheapened the quality and skills required for the task.
Leave it to republicans to cheapen the quality of a time honored tradition.
Steve5117 wrote on July 12, 2007 2:18 PM:Harmonika
Rep. Allen told an undercover cop that he would give him 20 bucks if he would let Allen suck his dick. I wonder what he pays to get poked in the ass.
I also wonder if he eats pussy or does he tell his wife that oral sex is against his religeon
Garth wrote on July 12, 2007 2:22 PM:"Tonight I got confirmation from a solid inside source who has no ideological ax to grind. The source said Vitter was a client at Canal Street, and provided some additional details that shed light on Maier's comment that there was "more to the business than sex".
These details are not for the faint of heart, either.
We're talking about, among other things, Diaper Fetishism. That's right folks, according to a trusted inside source, Vitter was well known among other Canal Street Brothel patrons to like diapers as well as other bizarre "fetishes". I don't have much more info than that from my source, except that some of the other patrons at the brothel included a well known business-minded New Orleans Republican and a well known Democratic ex-governor. There are many other well known patrons who never held public office, too.
Garth wrote on July 12, 2007 2:23 PM:"Tonight I got confirmation from a solid inside source who has no ideological ax to grind. The source said Vitter was a client at Canal Street, and provided some additional details that shed light on Maier's comment that there was "more to the business than sex".
These details are not for the faint of heart, either.
We're talking about, among other things, Diaper Fetishism. That's right folks, according to a trusted inside source, Vitter was well known among other Canal Street Brothel patrons to like diapers as well as other bizarre "fetishes". I don't have much more info than that from my source, except that some of the other patrons at the brothel included a well known business-minded New Orleans Republican and a well known Democratic ex-governor. There are many other well known patrons who never held public office, too.
GWPRIESTER wrote on July 12, 2007 2:56 PM:I'm sorry but this is the same kind of non-issue they hit Clinton with.
The guy may be a flaming hypocrite, but how many public figures would admit to having extramarital sex, or out of the mainstream sex?
Don't act like a bunch of republicans. What a person does in privacy should remain private.
MIKE wrote on July 12, 2007 4:10 PM:joke:
Why is the republican party like a public swimming pool?
Because all the noise comes from the shallow end.
Don't these people think before they open their mouth?
Rodney wrote on July 12, 2007 5:43 PM:I am familiar with the intersection in New Orleans near where it's been reported that the Senator had his rendezvous with the prostitute in the late 90s (Dauphine & Dumaine), if I recall recent reports. There's a pretty good restaurant there taht has a dynamite breakfast. Anyway, there's also a grade-school close by (Catholic, I think), and I noticed what appeared, to my admittedly untrained eye, to be more than a little gay "cruising" going on in that vicinity. So: this guy is lookin' for luv near a school? And with whom, again?
frags trolls wrote on July 12, 2007 5:48 PM:New Orleans Blogger Blageur reporting Senator David Vitter has an illegitimate child with the New Orleans hooker he was linked to back in 2004 (salon) .
We can suppose "safe sex" never entered the mind of the Rector of his Catholic church's rules against birth control, Diaper Davey Vitter.
The Latina woman now resides in Alexandria Va with said child. Apparently this is a well known story in Louisiana political circles.
Vitter's claims that his soiled diaper sinnin' was prior to his entry into the Senate but alas and alak, so sad....his phone records show he was funding the DC Madam's ladies in 2001.
He better be wearing his diapers these days . . .those phone calls he made to arrange a date in 2001 contradict his press statement of the other day surely will have him dropping a fresh load into his diaper!
frags trolls wrote on July 12, 2007 5:49 PM:New Orleans Blogger Blageur reporting Senator David Vitter has an illegitimate child with the New Orleans hooker he was linked to back in 2004 (salon) .
We can suppose "safe sex" never entered the mind of the Rector of his Catholic church's rules against birth control, Diaper Davey Vitter.
The Latina woman now resides in Alexandria Va with said child. Apparently this is a well known story in Louisiana political circles.
Vitter's claims that his soiled diaper sinnin' was prior to his entry into the Senate but alas and alak, so sad....his phone records show he was funding the DC Madam's ladies in 2001.
He better be wearing his diapers these days . . .those phone calls he made to arrange a date in 2001 contradict his press statement of the other day surely will have him dropping a fresh load into his diaper - and he saved $300 for this load!
hamletta wrote on July 12, 2007 8:20 PM:I'm sorry but this is the same kind of non-issue they hit Clinton with.
Yes, and Vitter was one of the pricks hitting it. So to speak.
To paraphrase the Republicans, it's not the sex, it's the hypocrisy!
Anonymous wrote on July 13, 2007 3:28 PM:http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-allen1307jul13,0,5667267.story
Dirty Sock Sucker.
lol
Harmonika Savingsbonds wrote on July 15, 2007 12:40 PM:What will the future hold for Baby Vitter today?
Harmonika Savingsbonds wrote on July 15, 2007 12:40 PM:What will the future hold for Baby Vitter today?
Roger Bigod wrote on July 16, 2007 4:46 PM:Well, there is a house in New Orleans
ChrisO wrote on July 16, 2007 5:14 PM:They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
I say string him up for his hypocrisy, but I'm somewhat less than outraged about his personal sexual habits. A diaper fetish seems pretty harmless.
As for the poster who speculated that the only people who go to hookers have low self esteem, I think it's also possible that public figures find it a little risky to be out in bars hitting on women. I think that's the same reason movie stars get caught with hookers. Sometimes they just want sex without going through the whole seduction game, and ending up in a gossip column every time some woman shoots them down.
And that's a (security code) FACT.
wtf wrote on July 16, 2007 6:55 PM:clinton having consensual sex was legal
paying prostitutes is illegal
i think it should be legal but it isn't
also, spouses living secret lives pass along std's and hiv to their families; not cool
jeffgee wrote on July 16, 2007 7:40 PM:He claims that the N.O. hooker story isn't true.
loki wrote on July 16, 2007 9:43 PM:So just to be clear...Wendy isn't going to cut off his penis?
Security code: "wind", as in inherit the.
(Ooops. Well, I left for second and came back, so now it's "meat." As in Watch yours David!)
crossdotcurve wrote on July 17, 2007 8:54 AM:The good senator refused to take questions yesterday, but obviously that cannot continue.
The first question should be:
"Senator Vitter, in 1998 you called on President Clinton to resign because of 'moral unfitness'. You claimed his remaining in office set a terrible example for young people and lamented the lack of accountability and consequences for his actions. Senator, why aren't you applying your *own* criteria to yourself?"