Vitter Continued

I don't want to beat this story to death, but here's a little more on Senator Vitter. It seems that he was also a client of the the Canal Street madam in New Orleans.

From the The Advocate in Baton Rouge:

The New Orleans madam, Jeanette Maier, pleaded guilty to running the Canal Street brothel in 2002. In an interview with WDSU-TV in New Orleans on Tuesday, she said the Louisiana Republican was once a client of her high-priced establishment.

“He seemed to be one of the nicest and most honorable men I ever met,” Maier said.

Maier also told The Associated Press that Vitter’s visits weren’t “all about dirty, raunchy, crazy sex.”

“In fact, he just wanted to have somebody listen to him,” she said.

So. Was it just talking to someone at the brothel, with no sex, or was it talking and good, clean sex instead of dirty sex?

The irony writes itself.

Then, from the Times-Picayune in New Orleans:

Jeanette Maier, the madam known for operating a high-end brothel with her mother and daughter, said Tuesday that Sen. David Vitter made occasional visits to her business beginning in the mid-1990s after the two met at a fishing rodeo where she and her prostitutes were hired to entertain local politicians.

After the initial meeting, Maier said she saw Vitter at the bordello and knew him as someone who patronized her call girls. She denied having a personal relationship with him and said he had stopped visiting the establishment by the time it was raided by federal agents in 2001.

Lucky for him that he stopped going there before the raid.

Maier continued:

Maier, 48, spoke openly about Vitter's patronage of the New Orleans brothel in an interview Tuesday as she sat atop the king-size bed in her Gretna home. The bedroom was decorated in a Southwestern motif, and a rosary hung from the headboard. She puffed on a cigarette as she talked.

She said she decided to name Vitter as a client because she was angry that the Washington allegations made him look like a one-dimensional adulterer, when she sees him as a "good man" who has helped the New Orleans area recover from Hurricane Katrina.

"All I wanted to get across when I saw the paper this morning is this b -- -- -- she calls herself a madam -- she's gonna throw this number out without a face, and without telling people what good he's done," Maier said, adding that the allegations would "just piss off his wife and create all this havoc in his life."

'He is honorable'

She said the women who worked in her brothel considered Vitter a decent man.

There you have it: the women at the brothel vouch for him. What can we say against him? I don't know how many dimensions of an adulterer he was, but we know from Ms. Maier that he was definitely not one-dimensional. Thank goodness for that.