Posted On: 05/15/2016 4:51:26 PM
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when a pervert shows up in the Republican party they are usually ran out of office.
Not quite. Vitter kept and was re-elected to his Senate seat notwithstanding.........
David Vitter's Prostitution Scandals Are Finally Starting To Stick
ByCatherine Thompson 12, 2015, 6:00 AM EST
Louisiana gubernatorial candidate John Bel Edwards (D) didn't need to utter the word "prostitution" for viewers of Tuesday night's debate to understand that he was hitting Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) over his involvement in the 2007 "D.C. Madam" scandal.
"Hundreds of veterans have contacted me," Edwards said, "and they wanted to know that you were missing out on your public performance of your duties in Congress in order to engage in those extracurricular activities that you don't want to admit to."
Vitter had just criticized Edwards, a state representative, for releasing a "vicious negative ad" that he said offended veterans. The ad was released last week and juxtaposed Edwards’ service as an Army Ranger with the claim that Vitter “answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom.”
“David Vitter chose prostitutes over patriots,” the ad’s narrator intoned. “Now, the choice is yours.”
The senator famously admitted that he committed a "very serious sin" after his phone number was revealed on the call list of the late Deborah Jean Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," in 2007. But the scandal never served as political kryptonite for Vitter until now. Trailing in the polls and abandoned by his GOP primary rivals, Vitter is suddenly playing defense in a race that he seemingly had locked just months ago.
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