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Sen. Vitter Apologizes for Number Showing Up on Phone Records of Alleged Prostitution Ring
FOXNews.com ^ | 10 July 2007

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 110th; apology; davidvitter; dc; dcmadam; hookers; list; moralabsolutes; palfrey; prostitution; vitter
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David Vitter, joined by his wife Wendy and son Jack, answers a question after winning the election on Wednesday, November 3, 2004. (Photo: Bill Haber/AP Wide World)
61 posted on 07/10/2007 3:13:28 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Aussie Dasher
The BIG difference is Vitter was sorry BEFORE he was caught.

You think a guy who's confessed to adultery with a prostitute is telling the truth about being sorry?!

62 posted on 07/10/2007 3:17:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Aussie Dasher

When caught, they all say “I’ve sinned deeply”, or some other such nonsense.


63 posted on 07/10/2007 3:26:44 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: mewzilla

He’s a conservative Republican. I’m prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. Besides, we’ve ALL done things we wish we hadn’t...


64 posted on 07/10/2007 3:26:54 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: All

This is not new news about Vitter. In 2003, he was contemplating a run for Governor of Louisiana when rumors of his “problems” surfaced. He publicly alluded to “personal issues” and that was that. It was enough, however, to kill his ambitions for Governor.


65 posted on 07/10/2007 3:30:31 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Aussie Dasher
He’s a conservative Republican. I’m prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. Besides, we’ve ALL done things we wish we hadn’t...

And that kind of thinking is what got Toon elected twice.

Three hundred million Americans in this country and we can't find a few hundred that aren't degenerates?!

66 posted on 07/10/2007 3:30:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

You’ve done anything you’re ashamed of?


67 posted on 07/10/2007 3:32:28 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

None of us is sinless and I’m not casting stones. I’m also not saying he’s a bad man and that he should resign or be destroyed by this. However, we live in a day when the private lives of politicians are more scrutinized than ever before. Particularly in this post Clinton, and since he is from Louisiana, post Bob Livingston era, I’m just wondering what could have gone through the mind of a conservative Republican senator, with four small children and a wife, that would lead him to make such a seemingly poor decision.


68 posted on 07/10/2007 3:32:40 AM PDT by Mila
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To: Mila

Yeah. Can’t argue with that. BUT the important thing is he was genuinely sorry and confessed BEFORE it was made public.

I doubt he’s a Clinton, Kennedy, et al.


69 posted on 07/10/2007 3:35:53 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Savage Beast

Ubiquitous cell phones are making pay phones go the way of the dodo.

I chuckle every time I see a bank of pay phones in a hotel convention area. They’re gone in the next big renovation, I assure you.


70 posted on 07/10/2007 3:36:18 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Aussie Dasher
You're equating cussing/losing my temper/not keeping the Sabbath to adultery?

FWIW, I'm not asking for perfection. But some sins, it seems to me, are a lot worse than others.

71 posted on 07/10/2007 3:36:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Tzimisce

“The acknowledgment from Vitter, a Republican ...”


72 posted on 07/10/2007 3:37:58 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: mewzilla

Some sins are no doubt worse than others. Thankfully, our Heavenly Father has the capacity to forgive them all if true repentence is shown. He asks us to do the same.


73 posted on 07/10/2007 3:38:51 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: samtheman; Savage Beast

>>Why would a John give a prostitute his phone number?

Caller ID?


74 posted on 07/10/2007 3:39:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Rummenigge

Sex life? Who cares? Breaking the law? Now we have a problem worth discussing.


75 posted on 07/10/2007 3:39:48 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: rljv

The “media and their puppet masters” held a gun to this guy’s head and made him hold this press conference?


76 posted on 07/10/2007 3:41:27 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Aussie Dasher

I don’t want stones. I just want him out of office.


77 posted on 07/10/2007 3:44:05 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Satan is working both sides of the street in World Socialism and World Courts.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
....if true repentence is shown.

And there's the sticking point, but I'll leave the forgiving up to God and Wendy Vitter.

But I wouldn't ever vote for this guy.

78 posted on 07/10/2007 3:49:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: bmwcyle

Why? He votes the right way. I’d prefer a sinner who opposes baby killing than a sanctimonious pr*ck who supports mass slaughter.


80 posted on 07/10/2007 3:49:31 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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