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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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To: mewzilla; bmwcyle
You both have been around here for quite awhile and I respect both of your opinions and am, therefore, puzzled by your comments. You’d never vote for him? He used bad judgment and sinned, who hasn’t? Do we really need to “eat our own”? Isn’t what he does in his elected office more important? How he’s living his life now more of a bellwether? Is there no forgiveness?
81 posted on 07/10/2007 3:56:07 AM PDT by patj
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To: Aussie Dasher

Only two types of scandals can harm a Louisiana poltician-—Being found in bed with a dead woman or a live man.


82 posted on 07/10/2007 4:13:30 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: PJ-Comix

Neither, it seems, can harm a Kennedy, though...


83 posted on 07/10/2007 4:19:17 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: patj
This type of behavior is how I knew in 1990 Bill Clinton was worthless. This type of behavior needs to be left in your 20’s and not carried over to that phase of life. If you can’t be responsible to God’s gift’s (children). I don’t want you responsible for me.
84 posted on 07/10/2007 4:20:51 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

Post #84


85 posted on 07/10/2007 4:21:24 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Satan is working both sides of the street in World Socialism and World Courts.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
the politicians who vote on the laws should be exemplary in obeying those laws

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.

86 posted on 07/10/2007 4:29:15 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: NRA2BFree

Your opinion means little concerning your grasp of the facts.


87 posted on 07/10/2007 4:29:54 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: bmwcyle

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.


88 posted on 07/10/2007 4:34:51 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: abb

http://www.politicsla.com/columns/Tidmore/2004/March/032604_inside_track.htm


89 posted on 07/10/2007 4:41:31 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last.”)
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To: Aussie Dasher
He asked forgiveness. He got it. Why drag this up now????

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.

90 posted on 07/10/2007 4:44:05 AM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: Do Be

I’m certainly glad my final Judge will be a bit more merciful....


91 posted on 07/10/2007 4:46:51 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

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.

snip


92 posted on 07/10/2007 4:47:37 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: TornadoAlley3

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.


93 posted on 07/10/2007 4:57:26 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: mewzilla

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.)


94 posted on 07/10/2007 5:02:16 AM PDT by kenth (I got tired of my last tagline...)
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To: abb
listening online to http://www.wjbo.com :a Baton Rouge radio station I found, majority of callers saying they forgive him and will vote for him again. I hope he does not resign.
95 posted on 07/10/2007 5:06:10 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last.”)
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To: Aussie Dasher

I don’t agree.


96 posted on 07/10/2007 5:08:20 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Satan is working both sides of the street in World Socialism and World Courts.)
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To: taxesareforever
Let me see, you are equating "smart" and "Senate"? Think Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, Patty Murray, etc.

97 posted on 07/10/2007 5:12:25 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: TornadoAlley3

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.


98 posted on 07/10/2007 5:13:45 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Aussie Dasher
He asked forgiveness. He got it. Why drag this up now????

... because the Democrats are in full campaign mode, and Vitter is a Republican.

99 posted on 07/10/2007 5:16:29 AM PDT by bimbo
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To: Mila

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.


100 posted on 07/10/2007 5:17:24 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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