Rachel's going to talk about the porn star challenging Vitter - strange things are happening

[malaise]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/07/porn_star_mulling_challenge_to.html
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Her arrest came two days after her political adviser in Louisiana, Brian Welsh, said his parked 1996 Audi may have been blown up by someone on July 23 outside his apartment in an upscale downtown area of New Orleans.

"It's something out of The Sopranos," said Edward E. Chervenak, a professor of politics at the University of New Orleans. "Very weird."

The bad week, though, started on July 23 when her political adviser's car blew up in suspicious circumstances in New Orleans.

Welsh, a Democratic adviser and manager of the Stormy Daniels Senate Exploratory Committee LLC., said his Audi convertible exploded into flames around 11:15 p.m. July 23, a Thursday, while he and his wife were walking their dog nearby.

He said he became suspicious after reviewing surveillance tapes of the street where his car was parked, wedged between other vehicles.

On fuzzy security tapes that Welsh posted on YouTube, a person in a white shirt can be seen loitering around his car and apparently getting into it shortly before the car explodes in a ball of flames.

Firefighters responded to a 911 call at 11:23 p.m. and put the fire out by 12:06 a.m., said Michael Williams of the New Orleans Fire Department.

[villager]

1. Diaper boy is playing hardball...

n/t

[malaise]

3. Remember one prostitute is already dead

Scary Diaper boy.

[villager]

7. actually -- that's a very good point. Another BFEE-style "suicide..."

n/t

[Mnemosyne]

9. Actually two dead hookers. One worked for the madam and 'hung' herself about a year

before the madam did.

Women rarely hang themselves.

Curiouser and curiouser...

[malaise]

10. Yep

Curiouser and curiouser...

[DonkeyHoTay]

2. Rachel is on now...

As usual, the dialogue is cogent, witty, entertaining. Yeah
Rachel!

[baldguy]

4. But...but...but! This is America! We don't have political violence *here*!

[abumbyanyothername]

5. I would vote for Stormy over

Max Baucus or Ben Nelson. Maybe over Feinstein if I don't get an answer from her soon.

[704wipes]

6. Stormy wouldn't be as big a whore as

Evan Bayh either.

[abumbyanyothername]

8. I feel sorry for Bayh.

I mean, how are you ever going to fuck your wife at home if you fuck her on the Senate floor?