Richard Tafoya
Jul 17th, 2007, 02:44 AM
Reuters:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2007-07-17T024742Z_01_SIB709994_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-SENATOR-PROSTITUTION.xml&pageNumber=2&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2
A Republican U.S. senator who admitted to "serious sin" after he was linked last week to a Washington escort service apologized for the sex scandal on Monday, but said he will go back to work.
Sen. David Vitter, a social conservative who has routinely touted family values, said his undescribed sins occurred several years ago, implying that his misdeeds were behind him. He accused enemies of dredging up the scandal to hurt him.
Vitter, who had stayed out of sight the past week, said he was going back to Washington immediately, giving no hint he might resign the office he won in 2004.
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During the past week, former New Orleans madam Jeanette Maier said Vitter was a customer at her Canal Street bordello in the late 1990s, and another woman identified as Wendy Cortez told the New Orleans paper Vitter had been her regular client several years ago.
Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/16/vitter-speaks-is-he-%e2%80%98morally-unfit-to-govern%e2%80%99/
In Oct. 1998, Vitter attacked President Clinton (http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/09/sen-vitter-on-dc-madam-list/), arguing the proper question was not whether people cared but rather whether Clinton was “morally unfit to govern.”
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. [Times-Picayune, 10/29/98]
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2007-07-17T024742Z_01_SIB709994_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-SENATOR-PROSTITUTION.xml&pageNumber=2&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2
A Republican U.S. senator who admitted to "serious sin" after he was linked last week to a Washington escort service apologized for the sex scandal on Monday, but said he will go back to work.
Sen. David Vitter, a social conservative who has routinely touted family values, said his undescribed sins occurred several years ago, implying that his misdeeds were behind him. He accused enemies of dredging up the scandal to hurt him.
Vitter, who had stayed out of sight the past week, said he was going back to Washington immediately, giving no hint he might resign the office he won in 2004.
...
During the past week, former New Orleans madam Jeanette Maier said Vitter was a customer at her Canal Street bordello in the late 1990s, and another woman identified as Wendy Cortez told the New Orleans paper Vitter had been her regular client several years ago.
Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/16/vitter-speaks-is-he-%e2%80%98morally-unfit-to-govern%e2%80%99/
In Oct. 1998, Vitter attacked President Clinton (http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/09/sen-vitter-on-dc-madam-list/), arguing the proper question was not whether people cared but rather whether Clinton was “morally unfit to govern.”
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. [Times-Picayune, 10/29/98]