You probably heard about Louisiana Senator and local hardcore rightwinger David Vitter's phone number showing up in the call log of a supposed DC madam yesterday. He admitted (through a spokesman) that he had 'sinned' and had been forgiven by his wife and hoped to be forgiven by Christ. What the articles on this are neglecting to mention is... this is not the first time he has been found out as not the family candidate. Hypocrite Vitter was accused of an extramarital affair in 1999 with a New Orleans prostitute, Wendy Cortez. Wendy Cortez contacted former Governor Treen's office during the 2002 campaign for governor that year, because she was unhappy he was claiming to be a family values candidate and cheating on his wife with her. The whole thing can back to almost hurt Vitter before he won his Senate seat in 2004 (around the time, I can only assume, he may have been visiting the DC madam). Salon.com did a huge write up on this at the time (via Your Right Hand Thief). They found out about this from Louisiana Weekly, whose September 9, 2002 article helped force Vitter to leave the race for governor at the time. He said the race was putting a strain on his marriage and denied the hooker allegations, but now we can only assume that the hooker who went to the papers then was telling the truth and his cheating was the real problem. Now you need to ask yourself, can we trust this man? (Silas Lee thinks we might forgive and forget) Is Vitter really good for Louisiana? I guess his support of Guiliani for president makes more sense now too, considering the former NYC mayor's marital history and our new knowledge of Vitter's. Too bad Wendy Vitter (who I feel really bad for, if anyone should have left their husband by now, its her) never had enough courage to do what she claimed she would do if she found him cheating: "I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me."
picture edit of a Vitter meeting with the supremely qualified Harriet Miers









1. So the Uberkatholic, gay-hating, fascist, son of a bitch turns out to be a whoremonger.
Is anyone stupid enough to be surprised?
Posted at 4:55PM on Jul 10th 2007 by frank