It's a small world.
This guy.
Vitter's number on D.C. madam's listBy Keith I. Marszalek, NOLA.com
Published: Monday, July 09, 2007, 9:49 PM
Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 9:52 PM
From staff, wire reports
WASHINGTON _ Sen. David Vitter, R-La., apologized Monday night for "a very serious sin in my past" after his telephone number appeared among those associated with an escort service operated by the so-called "D.C. Madam."
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"This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter said in the 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."
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Earlier this year Palfrey, 51, of Vallejo, Calif., asked the Supreme Court to delay the criminal case against her -- a request the court denied in May. Her attorney had argued that it was unfair to proceed against Palfrey because her assets remain seized in a civil forfeiture case, meaning she lacks the money to hire an attorney of her choice.
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Vitter was among the first members of Congress to endorse former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for president fueling speculation that the senator was angling for a vice presidential bid. Pinsonat said that Vitter's acknowledgement of a "serious sin" snuffs out any hope he may have had about being on a national Republican presidential ticket.
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http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/sen_vitters_number_appears_on.html But wait, Vitter gets wetter, er, bitter, em, better!
Vitter had five calls with D.C. Madam
Calls began soon after he was sworn in, ended on Mardi Gras 2001.By Keith I. Marszalek, NOLA.com
Published: Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 7:57 PM
Updated: Thursday, July 12, 2007, 6:15 AM
By Bill Walsh
Washington bureau
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.
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Vitter has limited his public statements to a contrite press release Monday night in which he said, "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling."
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http://blog.nola.com/updates/2007/07/vitter_had_five_calls_with_dc.html And very, very bad.
She was "driven" to suicide. Right.
Read ‘D.C. Madam’ Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s Suicide Noteby Ken Layne
WASHINGTON
Wonkette
1:40 pm May 5, 2008
Making a sadder story just a little bit sadder still, today the cops have revealed D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s suicide note. Instead of blowing the lid of Dick Cheney’s particular perversions or David Vitter’s favorite style of Depends (logo of Elmo in wheelchair, masturbating), the two-page note is a heartbreakingly dull list of trivialities in grade-school girlish handwriting.
Palfrey has one page just for the police or medics: “DO NOT REVIVE (DNR),” it says, a command often seen on the refrigerators of elderly or terminally ill people who don’t want their lives artificially dragged out. And because her life ended in Florida, there was a special message for Florida’s Republican legislators and their beloved feeding tubes, in case the hanging wasn’t completely successful: “DO NOT FEED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.”
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The other page is a note to her mother, including minutia about settling debts from a Bank of America account and Palfrey’s expectation that she would emerge from prison six or eight years from now “a broken, penniless and very much alone woman.” Palfrey assumed her mom would be dead by then.
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http://wonkette.com/387236/read-dc-madam-deborah-jeane-palfreys-suicide-note I've got to ask why a good Democrat with the backbone to stand up to
Clarence Thomas and the BFEE has to leave the U.S. House of Representatives and why David Vitter – now a Senator, no less, who pays people to literally get shit on – gets to keep his job?