Wendy Vitter wasn't the only Wendy having sex with David Vitter.

[Maddy McCall]

Wendy Cortez, rumored to have done "business" with David Vitter, called the Times Picayune today and confirmed that she had serviced the senator when he was but a wee state representative.


Just published on the Times Picayune website three hours ago:

Prostitute describes Vitter affair
Posted by By Kate Moran and Brendan McCarthy July 12, 2007 10:38PM



Days after Senator David Vitter apologized for using an escort service in Washington, D.C., a woman who once worked as a prostitute in Louisiana said he was a regular client of hers several years ago while he was a state legislator.

The woman worked under the name Wendy Cortez. Her birth name is Wendy Yow, according to her ex-husband, who asked not to be named but said he has seen her birth certificate.

Yow, contacted through relatives, called The Times-Picayune Wednesday night and said Vitter was a regular customer of hers, but said the two did not have a personal romantic relationship. She claimed to have severed ties with him after she found out he was married. Yow said it was a part of her life she hoped to put behind her.

On Thursday, The Times-Picayune asked Vitter's office whether he had ever hired a prostitute or knew Wendy Cortez. In response, his office issued a statement that referenced his Monday apology regarding the Washington escort service and reiterated that he was not implicated in a federal investigation that led to the closing of a Canal Street brothel in 2001.

''Senator Vitter was very honest and direct in his statement on Monday. Unfortunately, that has resulted in political enemies and those looking to profit from the situation shopping all sorts of false stories. Four different lawyers in the Canal Street matter, including the lead defense attorney and the U.S. attorney, have confirmed Senator Vitter had nothing to do with the operation in any way. But sadly the media insists on being completely irresponsible and continues to report rumors and false accusations,'' said Joel DiGrado, a Vitter spokesperson.

DiGrado said that Vitter is spending important time with his family and soon will return to work in the U.S. Senate.

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''She told me she had clients lined up; high-dollar people, lawyers, politicians, golfers,'' he said.

While unpacking boxes following the couple's move to Alabama in 1998, Tait Cortez said he found photos of a smiling Wendy at a formal affair, wearing an evening gown, alongside a man he described as a ''city slicker'' wearing a suit. In another photo, that same dark-haired man appeared with Wendy at a waterfront party, he said. The man was wearing shorts and a t-shirt next to Wendy in a bikini, Cortez said. ''She had his hand on his crotch,'' Cortez said. ''They were smiling.''

Cortez said the photo stung him. It was ''more sexual'' than any others, and he felt that Wendy and the man exhibited more than a business relationship, he said.

''She said it was a client of hers,'' Cortez said. ''She said it was David Vitter, a politician.''

READ MORE HERE: http://blog.nola.com/updates/2007/07/former_prostitute_confirms_vit.html Good stuff!

Oh god let there be photos!!!

[piedmont]

1. "Tait Cortez has since married, burned photos of his former lover and forgotten about her, he said"

bummer

[Maddy McCall]

3. If Tait is telling the truth...

then that means that Vitter was stupid enough to allow photos to be made of himself.

I'm just hoping that somewhere, somehow, someone has photos of Vitter with one of these Louisiana prostitutes.

[Richard Steele]

2. K&R

[bluestateguy]

4. For the record, I think prostitution should be legal

The irony is that it's people on our side (and a few libertarians) fighting for Vitter's legal right to be a political hypocrite.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. For me, prostitution isn't the issue. It's the hypocrisy.

Don't rail against eating candy, then go home to the stash of snicker bars under you mattress.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Exactly. Check out this op-ed today in the Times Picayune.

Can this senator's career be saved?
Thursday, July 12, 2007Stephanie Grace
I can't wait to hear Sen. David Vitter's honorable explanation.

No, wait, that's the other guy.

Unlike his indicted congressional colleague, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, Vitter has promised no accounting, honorable or otherwise, for his actions.

All Vitter's offered so far is a mysteriously worded confession, issued one step ahead of porn king Larry Flynt's vow to out him as a client of the notorious Washington, D.C., madam. According to the statement, there was a "very serious sin in my past" -- one that he would discuss only with his family and his God.

As for his constituents, well, it's apparently none of their business.

This much Vitter doesn't have to tell us: Louisiana's most holier-than-thou pol turns out to be considerably less holy than he's always purported to be, to the clear delight of those who long ago tired of his judgmental mien.

Nowhere is that clearer than on matters related to so-called family values.

In a letter he proudly authored less than a month ago, Vitter joined with 12 other Republican senators in endorsing a federal abstinence education program that teaches that "saving sex until marriage and remaining faithful afterwards is the best choice for health and happiness."

His support of marriage, though, is limited to the "traditional" sort. Although he has declared it the "most important social institution in human history," no committed, healthy and happy same-sex couples need apply. "I don't believe there's any issue that's more important than this one," he declared, even after the Iraq war had spun out of control and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had leveled his state.

Perhaps he has his own definition of traditional marriage. It is true that there's a long tradition of powerful men getting a little on the side.

More: http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/grace/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1184228476207940.xml&coll=1

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. To be fair, the letter mentions nothing about wearing diapers. ;-)

In a letter he proudly authored less than a month ago, Vitter joined with 12 other Republican senators in endorsing a federal abstinence education program that teaches that "saving sex until marriage and remaining faithful afterwards is the best choice for health and happiness."

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To be fair, the letter mentions nothing about wearing diapers. ;-)

[Maddy McCall]

8. LOL.

Well, it's a good thing that no one introduced a bill against diaper-wearing for sexual purposes, or he'd be screwn, because you just KNOW he would have put his name on it as co-sponsor.

I wonder if he has ever taken a position on banning sex toys, like the legislature did here in Mississippi.

Wouldn't a diaper be considered a "sex toy" if you're wearing it for sexual arousal?

I'm reaching here, I know. :D

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. Remember how Bill Bennett wrote the book of virtures with no mention of gambling

He wrote this big friggin book covering just about every virture you could imagine. After the scandal broke about his gambling (way more than the ordinary American) it was noticed that he had carefully left out gambling when he moralized.

[Maddy McCall]

10. Yeah, I remember that.

So, maybe Vitter hemmed and hawed and excused himself early on the day congress tried to pass the adult-diaper-sex bill. :rofl: