Forgive me, but I'm still beating the poor horse. If certain folks were not so self-righteous and preachy and quick to condemn others, I could leave this stuff alone.
From the Advocate in Baton Rouge:
The former madam of a New Orleans brothel who contends U.S. Sen. David Vitter was a frequent customer in the 1990s said Wednesday she is going public to protect the Louisiana Republican.
Jeannette Maier, 48, pleaded guilty in 2002 to running the Canal Street brothel, where men paid up to $300 a visit. Maier didn’t like the way Vitter was being portrayed after he acknowledged Monday that his phone number appeared in the records of an escort service run by the woman dubbed the “D.C. Madam,” she said.
“Here’s a woman trying to bring this man down as only a number,” Maier said. “Just because people visit a whorehouse doesn’t make them a bad person.
“It’s crazy that this is even an issue,” Maier added.
“Ninety-nine percent of the people I slept with were married. So what?”
Maier, who said she didn’t have sex with Vitter, added, “He’s a good man and we’re looking at the man, not his penis.”
Maier’s attorney in the brothel case, Vinny Mosca, isn’t so sure Vitter was a customer of Maier’s business. He issued a statement Wednesday saying Vitter’s name never came up in the federal investigation into the brothel, a statement backed up by U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
“David Vitter’s name was never picked up on a government wiretap nor is it listed in any transcript or court document as part of the Canal Street brothel case,” Mosca said Wednesday.
How is Maier helping Vitter with her comments?
Has Maier's attorney asked her to cease speaking publically about Sen. Vitter?
With friends like this....
UPDATE: I can't resist a link to Jon Swift's post, David Vitter: Another Victim of Gay Marriage.
Forgive me, Mimi, if connoisseurs of Louisiana politics do not find the themes familiar.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I am no longer an active devotee, if ever, truly, of shenanigans. Porgie may have wore out my furious button. If so, it may be the only good thing he's ever done.
Your Prayers for the Poor Country Boy (PCB) will be welcome, as he faces down demons with his brother veterans and the D Lady Ringmaster: God loves tomboys, even after they "grow up" and become LCSWs.
Gah! Unfamiliar! I'm not that sleepy yet, though this is Day Four.
ReplyDeleteFast. Pray. Breathe. Praise Jesus.
Johnieb, I will pray for the PCB and his brother veterans as they face down demons with the LCSW.
ReplyDeleteDay four for what? Or maybe I don't need to know. God knows. Praise Jesus.
I assume Mme Maier has a heart of gold. It's so bizarre, it could almost be a conspiracy to smear the guy without seeming to. Somehow I don't think any of the players is that subtle...
ReplyDeleteEd, truly, I don't know what to make of Madam Maier's comments.
ReplyDeleteIt's the theater of the absurd.
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. Did I get the number of mads right?
Crooks and Liars has the money quote from Vitter, back when two law professors had written in the Times-Picayune that Bill Clinton shouldn't be impeached because he was still quite capable of functioning as Chief Executive:
ReplyDelete"Vitter [. . .] was aghast at this amoral position. He blasted the law professors for criticizing those congressional Republicans pushing for Clinton’s impeachment. Their argument that impeachment is 'not primarily about right and wrong or moral fitness to govern,' he wrote, was utterly wrongheaded.
"He continued: 'Some current polls may suggest that people are turned off by the whole Clinton mess and don’t care — because the stock market is good, the Clinton spin machine is even better or other reasons. But that doesn’t answer the question of whether President Clinton should be impeached and removed from office because he is morally unfit to govern.'"
Under this standard, when is Vitter resigning?
Under this standard, when is Vitter resigning?
ReplyDeleteSoon, I hope, but I'm not holding my breath.
Since it is now over, and I'm in the mood for a too-late nap, but must wait till I tucker my bib, or whatever that saying was; I was little.
ReplyDeleteI fasted from sleep as well as most food, Mimi; I was a little overly keyed up, but my team and my squad brothers are wonderful, and I feel fine. My medical team and I are all over it, with some meetings and a brand new drug to try--joy, joy--being the result.
My shadow, the Mean Redneck (MR), wanted me to hear him, so I had to listen. Combat veterans are gentle people, we hate violence, 'cause we really have "been there, done that".
They think I cussed far too much; can you imagine that?
Johnieb, I'm glad it's over. I hope the new drug works. I will pray.
ReplyDeleteThey think I cussed far too much; can you imagine that?
Imagine that! You don't cuss here, except for that once, which I allowed in context.
I think the expression was "best bib and tucker" used for being all dressed up for whatever fine occasion.