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GOP Senator admits link to escort service [D.C. Madam]
Politico ^ | 7/9/07 | Carrie Budoff

Posted on 07/09/2007 8:55:07 PM PDT by freespirited

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) acknowledged Monday night that his number appears on telephone records of the alleged D.C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, and issued an apology.

“This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible,” Vitter said in a statement issued by his office.

“Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling,'' he added. "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.”

Vitter did not disclose exactly when the incidents took place, but said it was before he ran for the Senate in 2004.

Vitter, 46, then became Louisiana’s first Republican senator since the end of Reconstruction and has built a reputation as a solid conservative, opposing abortion rights, same-sex marriage and gun control. Last month, he took a leading role in efforts to kill the comprehensive immigration overhaul bill.

A Harvard graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, Vitter was elected to the House in 1999, filling the seat vacated by Rep. Bob Livingston, who was headed toward the House speakership in 1998 when he was forced to reveal his marital infidelities.

In 2000, Vitter was included in a Newhouse News Service story about the strain of congressional careers on families.

His wife, Wendy, was asked by the Newhouse News reporter: If her husband were as unfaithful as Livingston or former President Bill Clinton, would she be as forgiving as Hillary Rodham Clinton?

“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.”

“I think fear is a very good motivating factor in a marriage,” she added. “Don’t put fear down.”

Vitter’s revelation Monday comes a month after Hustler magazine Publisher Larry Flynt offered $1 million for information about illicit sexual relations with members of Congress. Flynt made a same pitch in October 1998, playing a role in Livingstons outing.

Palfrey posted the complete phone records of her client list on the Internet Monday night. The list for Pamela Martin and Associates dates back to 1994.

She is accused of running a prostitution ring catering to Washington’s elite. She faces federal racketeering and conspiracy charges based on allegations that she earned $2 million operating a prostitution service from 1993 to 2006.

Palfrey, however, has said that her company was legal operation that offered sexual fantasy services.

Her lawyer, Montgomery Sibley Blair, began distributing copies of the phone records to the media last week after a judge lifted an injunction that had previously prevented Palfrey from doing so.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: dcmadam; palfrey; prostitution; vitter
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Lovely.
1 posted on 07/09/2007 8:55:09 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited
Hey,it’s only sex...and assuming that he hasn’t perjured himself in this matter then everything’s just duckey.
2 posted on 07/09/2007 8:58:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: freespirited

Didn’t ABC say months ago that there were no names of interest on that list? Hmmm.... Did they lie to us?


3 posted on 07/09/2007 9:04:31 PM PDT by Balke
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To: Balke

Here are the phone records.
http://www.deborahjeanepalfrey.com/Jeane10c.html


4 posted on 07/09/2007 9:13:19 PM PDT by mazza
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To: mazza

That site is down.


5 posted on 07/09/2007 9:14:31 PM PDT by linn37 (Phlebotomists need love too.)
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To: freespirited

It must be payback for opposing illegal immigration amnesty. It is funny how no Democrats are on the list of customers. If more Republicans are on the list, their names will be released a day or two before election day.


6 posted on 07/09/2007 9:17:36 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: freespirited
Let's see, if you are a Dem President you can get a blow job in the White House and it is ok with the Liberals. If you are a Republican it is not OK to have sex with a prostitute.

Dems=good Republicans=BAD, no matter what they do.

7 posted on 07/09/2007 9:24:48 PM PDT by calex59
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To: freespirited
His wife, Wendy, was asked by the Newhouse News reporter: If her husband were as unfaithful as Livingston or former President Bill Clinton, would she be as forgiving as Hillary Rodham Clinton?

“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.”

“I think fear is a very good motivating factor in a marriage,” she added. “Don’t put fear down.”

So then why is she still married to him?

What Vitter did was flat out wrong...no two ways about it...but I have no sympathy or respect for the wife.

Why have principles when you could be a social climber.

8 posted on 07/09/2007 9:28:26 PM PDT by yahoo (There IS a solution to illegal immigration. It's called the Mexipult.)
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To: freespirited
This woman Palfrey, may well plead for mercy if facing prison time.

She appears to have shown none herself.

9 posted on 07/09/2007 9:30:28 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: freespirited

Good for Vitter. Confession is a cleansing thing, and this is the best way to handle something like this. Most people who have truly repented have no problem talking about their past, in my experience. Especially when the family has already forgiven and gone past it.


10 posted on 07/09/2007 9:32:36 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
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To: calex59

Let’s see, if you are a Dem President you can get a blow job in the White House and it is ok with the Liberals. If you are a Republican it is not OK to have sex with a prostitute.
Dems=good Republicans=BAD, no matter what they do.

That’s because once upon a time Republicans tried to be different than Democrats by holding themselves to a higher moral standard.

But it’s becoming increasingly obvious from immigration to spending to surrender to moral ethics, a lot of Republicans have become Democrats.


11 posted on 07/09/2007 9:36:11 PM PDT by acsuc99
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To: Wilhelm Tell
It is funny how no Democrats are on the list of customers.

First of all this a madame who offered women to heterosexuals. That alone excludes a lot of Democrats, both the closeted and uncloseted alike. Second, drunkedness and drug addiction causes one to lose interest in sex whether licit or illicit. Of course, I am most notably illuding to the congressional father and son act of Kennedy and Kennedy.

12 posted on 07/09/2007 9:37:47 PM PDT by Biblebelter (I can't believe people still watch TV with the sound on.)
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To: calex59

Heck, if you are a Democrat Senator, it is is taken to be an admirable example of love and diversity if your gay lover runs a gay prostitution ring out of your apartment. And the feminists treated Bill Clinton like he was a hero.


13 posted on 07/09/2007 9:40:43 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: yahoo

C’mon man - maybe she decided to forgive and keep the marriage going for the sake of the family and because she loves the man. I’ve been married 15 years and to my knowledge we have been faithful. But I’ve also learned to love and be loved in a way that goes beyond a simplistic “you screw up and you’re out”. It probably sounded good for her to SAY that, but when confronted with the reality she went another way.


14 posted on 07/09/2007 9:41:22 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain (Blame me - I voted for Bush)
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To: freespirited

Vitter had better check into rehab first thing tomorrow morning.


15 posted on 07/09/2007 9:41:26 PM PDT by KoRn (Just Say NO ....To Liberal Republicans - FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
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To: freespirited

So let’s get this straight now, out of 13 YEARS of phone records, David Vitter’s phone number is the *only* one of interest?

While Charlie Daniels was right when he said ‘watch where ya go, and remember where ya been’, Vitter isn’t alone.

The others just haven’t had the spotlight hit them yet.


16 posted on 07/09/2007 9:46:04 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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I wonder how many Kennedy or Clintons are on this list

I doubt Reagans, Bushies


17 posted on 07/09/2007 9:46:27 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: over3Owithabrain
It probably sounded good for her to SAY that, but when confronted with the reality she went another way.

And that's what I'm calling out that social climber on.

This is a marriage of convenience...she made that abundantly clear.

18 posted on 07/09/2007 9:48:17 PM PDT by yahoo (There IS a solution to illegal immigration. It's called the Mexipult.)
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To: linn37

Site is up but slow. I’ve got all 20 zip files for archival purposes :)


19 posted on 07/09/2007 9:56:18 PM PDT by cryptical
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To: freespirited

Gay, or straight?


20 posted on 07/09/2007 9:56:57 PM PDT by RavenATB
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