Republican U.S. Senator Busted Using Hookers. Wants To Pay Legal Bills With Campaign Money.

[The Sushi Bandit]

Three Republicans On Federal Election Commission Don’t See A Problem With This.

http://www.myreferenceframe.com/politics/us-senator-busted-using-hookers-wants-to-pay-legal-bills-with-campaign-money-three-republicans-on-federal-election-commission-dont-see-a-problem-with-this/

As you may know, Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was implicated in the D.C. Madam case and has admitted that he committed a “very serious sin.”

Not only is he still serving as a United States Senator from Louisiana, but now he wants to use his campaign money to pay legal bills related to his being subpoenaed in the case.

This guy just can’t leave well enough alone.

Anyway, the issue recently went before the Federal Election Commission.<1>

They apparently agreed that he could use campaign money to pay for “$31,341 in public relations costs and legal work related to a complaint filed with the Senate Ethics Committee.”

But when it came to dealing with the hookers things got tight: the vote dead-locked with the 3 republican commissioners saying the distinguished Senator could use his campaign money to pay legal bills not related to his official duties and the 3 democrats saying he couldn’t.

Since I’m pretty sure problems with hookers had nothing to do with Senator Vitter’s “family values” election platform the democrats are right on this one.

3 republican FEC commissioners, Donald F. McGahn, II, Caroline C. Hunter, and Matthew S. Peterson, taking care of a fellow republican.<2>

Now that’s ”real family values.”



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<1> http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/fec_split_in_vitters_push_for.html

<2> http://www.fec.gov/members/members.shtml. The web-site doesn’t tell you which ones are which. I had to call the FEC to find out. [phone].

[sharesunited]

1. Damn. That's pretty corrupt oversight.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Republicans are 100% predictable in votes like this. They make NO

distinctions and analyze and evaluate NOTHING. They just do as they are told. Totally predictable. Inhuman.

[RedLetterRev]

3. K&R

Family values my fruit-flavored arse. That stinking albatross is going to be chained firmly around these repukes' necks. Only 4 recs so far? I can't believe we're that asleep at the wheel.

[old mark]

4. Maybe they were consitiuants....

Hookers vote, don't they?

Family values, my old ass!



mark

[Jim Sagle]

5. Did someone say "hookers"?

Oh, wait...that's not a hooker, that's Mrs. Vitter.

Never mind.

;)

[opihimoimoi]

6. His Diaper Bill was that high/included?? Shit, ya can't make this stuff up? Too FUNNY

[malaise]

7. Boo fugging hoo!!!

Vitter said that not allowing him to use campaign money for his legal costs would encourage others to "target members of Congress" to combat charges against them.

"Unless one has vast personal resources, which most members including me do not, this can create a potentially crippling burden of attorneys' fees which must be paid for with personal funds, even though the litigation or targeting is a direct result of the person's status as a member of Congress, " Vitter wrote.
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:cry: :cry: :cry:

[beac]

9. "Target" = uncovering their lying, hypocritical @sses

Boo hoo indeed.

[riverdeep]

8. Don't forget, this is the guy that was given a standing ovation when he returned to the Senate.

By the Republicans. After admitting it. Family values are smoke screen, a way to get the rural and soccer mom and NASCAR dad vote while going after their real prize, naked power.

[SpiralHawk]

12. Republicons give Standing O for Diaper Sex "Family Values' Colleague

Republicons loves them their perverted hypocrites

[lovuian]

10. And the Madam unexplained suicide

suspecting Cheney was on the dead DC madam list

[Pluvious]

11. Let me guess, when Fox News reported

... the story they put a "D" next to his name

[KharmaTrain]

13. Just Think Of It This Way

That's less money he'll have if he dares to run for re-election. We're seeing in Alaska that when donors learn that their money is going to legal defense rather than winning elections, the pen gets a bit heavier...donations start to dry up.