via Daily Kos...........
Wed Jul 11, 2007 at 06:39:47 AM PDT
Back in October of 2004, Salon Magazine published an expose on David Vitter that was largely ignored. Mary Jacoby uncovered a seamy, and unflattering picture of this "Family Values" Republican that voters remained largely unaware of, because the principles in the case refused to go public.
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I am going to quote liberally from the piece, given it's age, and historical nature.
There is a house in New Orleans
Rumors involving a prostitute and a secret alliance with neo-Nazi David Duke trail the Republican Senate candidate in Louisiana.
A family-values far-right conservative named David Vitter appears headed for victory on Tuesday in the U.S. Senate race in Louisiana. Sharp-edged and uncompromising, but enormously talented at self-promotion, the three-term Republican representative from suburban New Orleans has rocketed to prominence over the last decade despite opposition from the state's Republican power brokers.
Privately aghast at his rise, the state's GOP leaders have all but fallen in line now, afraid to cross the man who may be their next senator. In interviews with Salon over several days, many Louisiana Republicans expressed anguish that a Vitter victory next week could mark the end of the state's unique tradition of moderate, bipartisan politics. This, of course, is exactly what Vitter's breed of brash, Newt Gingrich-style Republicans believe a deeply polarized country needs -- conservatives who disdain common-sense compromise in pursuit of ideological purity. And so Louisiana Republicans are deeply unhappy that the 43-year-old lawyer, known for running slashing negative campaigns with under-the-radar help from white supremacist David Duke, is on track to become the first GOP U.S. senator from Louisiana in more than 100 years.
It was Vitter who filed the ethics complaint against then Governor Edwin Edwards, in a carefully wrought plan to land the Governor's Mansion for himself.
He was also, apparently deeply in the grasp of the Abramoff Gang. Note, this was written long befor Jack was indicted and the BLM exploded in scandel.
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A history of sexual escapades, involvement with the Abrahmof casino scam, and involvement with David Duke. This presents a pretty picture of Republican corruption at the Duke Cunningham level. Family Values, my ass...
It is worth going to the Salon archives and reviewing this story. The MSM is trying to play this as just another naughty little incident. Vitter is, however, merely showing a long established pattern of deceit, graft, racism, and lying to his constituents that should not be allowed to pass as a "one of".
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/11/85410/2461Salon story.........
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/10/29/lousiana_race/index.html?pn=1
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