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David
Vitter - 
US
- 
Iraq
- 
Military
- 
Louisiana
- 
New
Orleans - 
2010
Election - "Vitter
Won't Explain D.C. Madam Link." ... "Louisiana Republican
[Senator] David Vitter went before the cameras one week after admitting
he committed a "very serious sin" related to a Washington escort service.
But he did not come with hat in hand." ... ""I'm not going to answer numerous
questions about it again and again and again," Vitter said with a note
of indignation." ... "Vitter did not explain why his phone number turned
up in the records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam,
only referring to his "past failings." Vitter also denied long-circulating
rumors that he solicited prostitutes in the late 1990s as a state representative
based in New Orleans [Louisiana]." ... "The freshman senator, who is up
for re-election in 2010, missed several controversial votes related to
the Iraq war last week." -By Jane Roh
-NationalJournal
David
Vitter - Gay
- 
Father
- 
Health
- 
Science
- 
Politics
- Louisiana
- 
Calif
- "His
Own Words Likely to Confront Vitter." ... "In a statement
last Monday night, [Louisiana Republican Senator David] Vitter apologized
for committing a ``very serious sin in my past,'' acknowledging that his
Washington phone number was among those called several years ago by an
escort service that prosecutors say was a prostitution operation. Telephone
records show that the service called Vitter's number five times from 1999
to 2001, while he was a [Louisiana Republican Representative] U.S. House
member." ... "Vitter, a married father of four, last month urged colleagues
to devote more federal spending to programs urging sexual abstinence among
teens. The best way to avert teen pregnancy, he wrote, is ``by teaching
teenagers that saving sex until marriage and remaining faithful afterwards
is the best choice for health and happiness.''" ... "In a June 2006 Senate
speech supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, Vitter
said it was ``well overdue that we in the Senate focus on nurturing, upholding,
preserving and protecting such a fundamental social institution as traditional
marriage.''" ... "Several lawmakers including [California Democratic Senator]
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., publicly accused Vitter of hypocrisy this
week." -By Charles Babington
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
David
Vitter - 
Telephone
- Politics
- Louisiana
- "Escort
service called senator during votes: Louisiana senator
remains in seclusion." ... "A woman accused of running a Washington prostitution
ring placed five phone calls to [Republican Louisiana Senator] David Vitter
while he was a [Republican Louisiana Representative] House member, including
two while roll call votes were under way, according to telephone and congressional
records." ... "Telephone records released by Deborah Jeane Palfrey indicate
she placed calls that were answered by Vitter’s Washington phone on five
occasions while Vitter was in the House, from 1999 through 2001. On four
of those five days, the House was in session and Vitter participated in
every roll call vote." -AP
via -MSNBC
David
Vitter - Louisiana
- Politician
- "Prostitute
describes Vitter affair." ... "Days after [Louisiana
Republican] Senator David Vitter apologized for using an escort service
in Washington, D.C., a woman who once worked as a prostitute in Louisiana
said he was a regular client of hers several years ago while he was a [Louisiana]
state legislator." ... "The woman worked under the name Wendy Cortez. Her
birth name is Wendy Yow, according to her ex-husband, who asked not to
be named but said he has seen her birth certificate." ... "Yow, contacted
through relatives, called The Times-Picayune Wednesday night and said Vitter
was a regular customer of hers, but said the two did not have a personal
romantic relationship. She claimed to have severed ties with him after
she found out he was married. Yow said it was a part of her life she hoped
to put behind her." -By Kate Moran and Brendan McCarthy
-NOLA.com
David
Vitter - Louisiana
- Politician
- "Madam
links Sen. Vitter to brothel." ... "New allegations
tie [Louisiana Republican Senator] Sen. David Vitter to a high-priced brothel
in his hometown, days after he publicly apologized for his connection to
an alleged prostitution ring in Washington, D.C."
-AP via -LAtimes
David
Vitter - Rudolph
W Giuliani
- Thomas
Ravenel
- Gay
- Abortion
- Immigration
- Drugs
- 
Law
- 2008
Election - Louisiana
- "A
Senator’s Moral High Ground Gets a Little Shaky."
... "From the beginning of his political career 16 years ago, [Louisiana
Republican] Senator David Vitter has been known for efforts to plant himself
on the moral high ground, challenging the ethics of other Louisiana politicians,
decrying same-sex marriage and depicting himself as a clean-as-a-whistle
champion of family values." ... "That self-created image, a political winner
here [Louisiana] since 1991, when Mr. Vitter joined the Louisiana House,
took a tumble Monday with the disclosure that his phone number was among
those on a list of client numbers kept by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called
D.C. Madam, who is accused of running a prostitution ring in Washington."
... "But the fallout was far bigger than local: his admission is also a
blow to the presidential campaign of [2008 election Republican] Rudolph
W. Giuliani, for whom he is Southern campaign chairman." ... "Mr. Vitter,
an uncompromising foe of abortion, same-sex marriage and the immigration
compromise that died in the Senate in June, was supposed to be Mr. Giuliani’s
ambassador to a region with large numbers of social conservatives suspicious
of the candidate’s moderate views." ... "But Mr. Vitter’s position in the
campaign could now be all the more tenuous given the questions surrounding
some of Mr. Giuliani’s other choices, including that of Thomas Ravenel,
who stepped down as South Carolina campaign chairman last month after being
charged with distribution of cocaine." -By Adam Nossiter
with contributions by Marc Santora -NYTimes
David
Vitter - Rudolph
W Giuliani
- 
Women
- 
Business
- Politics
- Telephone
- Louisiana
- 
New
York
- 2008
Election - "Senator's
Number on 'Madam' Phone List." ... "[Republican Lousiana
Senator] Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) apologized last night after his telephone
number appeared in the phone records of the woman dubbed the "D.C. Madam,"
making him the first member of Congress to become ensnared in the high-profile
case." ... "The statement containing Vitter's apology said his telephone
number was included on phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates dating
from before he ran for the Senate in 2004." ... "The service's proprietor,
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 51, faces federal charges of racketeering for allegedly
running a prostitution ring out of homes and hotel rooms in the Washington
area. Authorities say the business netted more than $2 million over 13
years beginning in 1993. Palfrey contends that her escort service was a
legitimate business." ... "Vitter was the first senator to endorse former
[New York City] New York mayor [and 2008 election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Rudolph W. Giuliani and serves as the campaign's Southern regional
chairman." -By Shailagh Murray
-WashingtonPost
David
Vitter - Trent
Lott
- Racism
- Politics
- Immigration
- Legislation
- Civil
Rights - 
History
- 
Mass
- La
- 
Ky
- 
Miss
- 
SC
- 
Ala
- 2008
Election - "Senate
immigration bill fails; issue "is going to have to wait."
... "The political battles that helped bring down sweeping immigration
legislation in the Senate are sure to rage on, although the bill is all
but dead until after the 2008 elections." ... "[Massachusetts Democratic
Senator] Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., one of the bill's architects, compared
the fight with the Senate's long struggle for civil-rights legislation
against segregationist opponents." ... ""You cannot stop the march for
progress in the United States," he declared." ... "To that, [Louisiana
Republican Senator] Sen. David Vitter, R-La., among the bill's most aggressive
foes, snapped: "To suggest this was about racism is the height of ugliness
and arrogance."" ... "Republicans on both sides acknowledged the immigration
fight had riven the GOP. Republican Senate aides, speaking on condition
of anonymity, said Senate Minority Whip [Mississippi Republican Senator]
Trent Lott, R-Miss., was furious with Minority Leader [Kentucky Republican
Senator] Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., over the leader's refusal to confront
the bill's most implacable opponents, who had virtually commandeered the
Senate floor, blocking introduction of amendments, refusing to offer amendments
of their own, then complaining that an unfair process was preventing them
from improving the bill." ... "Lott told McConnell that Sens. Vitter, [South
Carolina Republican Senator] Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and [Alabama Republican
Senator] Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., were becoming the uncompromising faces
of the Republican Party, a prospect that could set them back for years
as the Latino vote grows in power." -SeattleTimes.NWsource
David
Vitter - Sam
Brownback
- Gay
- 2008
Election - Politics
- Louisiana
- 
Kansas
- Massachusetts
- Family
- "Gay
marriage ban defeated in Senate vote: Bush rebuffed;
ban backers still hopeful, citing a few new votes in favor." ... "The Senate
on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, dealing
a defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hope to use the measure
to energize conservative voters on Election Day [2008]." ... "“We were
hoping to get over 50 percent, but that didn’t happen today,” said [Louisiana
Republican Senator] Sen. David Vitter, R-La., one of the amendment’s supporters."
... "“We’re not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman
is protected,” said [Kansas Republican Senator] Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan."
... "Democrats said the debate was a divisive political ploy. “The Republican
leadership is asking us to spend time writing bigotry into the Constitution,”
said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, which legalized gay marriage
in 2003." ... "“A vote for it is a vote against civil unions, against domestic
partnership, against all other efforts for states to treat gays and lesbians
fairly under the law.”" (1, 2)
-AP via -MSNBC
