Word: vitter
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...Democratic Senator Feingold was one of the President's only defenders on the Hill yesterday. On the other hand, Republican Senator David Vitter emerged from semi-seclusion to say he was "stunned? by Bush's veto threat, and accuse the President of abandoning Louisiana. It's true that the bill includes some projects to help restore Louisiana's vanishing coastal marshes and cypress swamps, which provide natural protection for New Orleans. (It's also true that Vitter had pushed to help timber firms to log those cypress swamps.) But as I explain in TIMR, the bill's main Louisiana project...
TIME called Vitter's office on Monday afternoon with a copy of the phone records, at which point, Vitter's press secretary told TIME it would receive a statement. Instead, Vitter's office rushed a press release to the Associated Press identifying him as a one-time client of the escort service. The AP has said that Vitter's statement on his "very serious sin" was made to its New Orleans office at the senator's own initiative, not in response to a query from...
Members of a team assembled by pornographer and self-described free speech advocate Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, are understood to have identified Vitter's name through their own analysis of Palfrey's phone records. Flynt has a long record of exposing what he regards as "hypocrisy" on the part of politicians who tout family or religious values, while falling short in their own lives. Flynt recently placed a full page adverstisement in the Washington Post, asking, "Have you had a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official?" It went...
...Vitter is currently the Southern campaign director for presidential candidate Rudolph Guiliani. At the time of the phone call to Palfrey's escort service, Vitter was still a member of the House of Representatives. In 2006, Vitter emerged as a strong supporter of Marriage Protection Ammendment, a proposed constitutional amendment that emerged in reaction to the push for the right of gays to marry. It defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. On Monday, Vitter indicated that his marriage had survived his sin, which lay in the past. Vitter said, "Several years ago, I asked...
Palfrey said she is not currently aware of the name of the escort who might be linked to Sen. Vitter, which she could find only by consulting additional records. She has said her service employed hundreds of contractors and sub-contractors in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia area, one of numerous services that routinely advertise in local publications...