Senator in prostitution scandal caught checking out lingerie

By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 -- 9:22 am
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WASHINGTON -- Rudy Giuliani isn't the only Republican who enjoys women's clothing every now and then. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was spotted Saturday night browsing the lingerie department of Filene's Basement downtown, Roll Call reports.

The Republican from Louisiana, caught hours before the Senate's cloture vote on health care, looked "a bit lost" around ladies clothing, said Roll Call's tipster.

“Is he looking for some ‘extra support’ for tonight’s big health care floor vote or is he up to his old habits?” the individual reportedly jested.

This is child's play for Vitter -- he's dealt with much worse in his recent career. In 2007, he was caught frequenting a Washington prostitution ring, known as "D.C. Madam," and subsequently admitted fault. He was later alleged to have been a regular customer by the "Madam."

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Up for re-election next year, Vitter might be facing a challenge from pornographic actress Stormy Daniels in the GOP primary.

More trouble over 'rape' amendment

Vitter got into trouble with another woman earlier this month.

Confronted by an impassioned rape survivor at a town hall, Sen. David Vitter tried everything from sympathizing to deflecting blame onto the Obama administration for his decision to vote against an anti-rape amendment.

Finally, amid shouts from protesters, the Louisiana Republican simply walked away.

Vitter was one of 30 Republican senators who voted against Sen. Al Franken's amendment, passed in the Senate last month, that would de-fund government contractors who prevent employees from seeking justice when they have been raped.

The inspiration for the amendment was Jamie Leigh Jones, who was allegedly gang-raped by co-workers at Halliburton subsidiary KBR while on assignment in Baghdad, and was then prevented from pursuing the matter in courts.

At the town hall meeting earlier this month, a woman identifying herself as a "rape survivor" confronted Vitter and asked him why he voted against the amendment.

"I'm a rape survivor, and it meant everything to me to put [away] the person who attacked me," she told Vitter.

Vitter responded, "I'm absolutely supportive of any case like that, that they are prosecuted criminally to the full extent of the law."

"But there are rape victims that are being silenced," the unnamed woman responded. "How can you support a company that tells a rape victim that she does not have a right to defend herself?"

"Do you realize President Obama was against that amendment, and his administration was against that amendment?" Vitter asked.

"But I'm not asking Obama, I'm asking you, senator," the woman said.

At that point, Vitter walked briskly away from the woman and out of the town hall.

Raw Story has the video here.

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  • Heil Mary
    Given Vitter's diaper fetish, shouldn't he be offering his diaper changing services to the Palins since they have 2 infants? Or maybe the Palins consider him just another big baby! Let's hope the lingerie wasn't for Wendy and she finally Bobbitts him as she promised years ago.
  • Savantster
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    tabloid, much? who _cares_ if he's shopping for panties for his wife (or whomever)? There's no crime in it, and there should be no shame in it.. Ignorant sensational bullshit.

    good job, raw.
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  • missskeptic
    Does he still have a wife? And if so, why?
  • dennycrane
    I guess she "wears" the "pants" in the house and he has to go find his own.
  • The details of the Franken Amendment, the false statements about it, and his floor speech are here at HuffPost.

    Shades of this exchange between the great Cynthia McKinney and the execrable Don Rumsfeld, eh?

    But I have to say, I think we should make a distinction between the DoD and Obama's own person. Here is just another incarnation of the truth that he spoke in the campaign, quoting FDR, that we need to "go out and make [him] do it", especially when it comes to overruling the very power structure that has hijacked our governmental process ever since WWII if not before, and took such rancorous exception to the policies of JFK that ultimately led to his death (see JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass).

    An interesting sidelight of the HuffPost article I mentioned is the reaction by Daniel Inouye during the Iran-Contra hearings when as chairman he felt forced to hide Jack Brooks of Texas's probing into Ollie North's involvement in COG. In the HuffPost article, we read that Medal of Honor recipient for bravery Inouye is perhaps stripping the Franken amendment under intense pressure from defense contractors. In this old clip, he is hiding the COG involvement in executive session.
  • MNUSA
    Eeuuww! Those poor saleswomen! In worked in a lingerie department years ago and know what kind of sickos (men) shop there.
  • Schmice
    Obama did NOT oppose the anti-rape amendment. Take off your diapers already because they, like you are full of sheet.
  • NotConvinced
    Well going from wearing diapers to lingerie shows he's matured a bit. One step at a time.
  • Miket298
    Raw, you didn't lead with the big story. Vitter walking away from a rape victim should be the lead in this story, not the fluff of him being in a woman's department.
  • dennycrane
    All he has to do is wait until "fishy-pants-palin" gets done with her book whoring and he can buy her old "undies" online at her "website."
  • airjackie
    Vitter has alot of woman to buy a gift for including his wife. Now sex and prostitution is part of his life and that wont change no matter what. Each time he's caught he will again ask for forgiveness and his wife is in the marriage for the money not the man. Wendy is just another Jenny Sanford. Who know Vitter might give Stormy a little gift oh and another gift to.
  • lousgirl84
    Don't forget he was wearing a diaper.
  • dennycrane
    I'm trying to forget. I am still trying to scour that image out of my head.

    If he does "sports" commentating, maybe "Marv Albert" can "hook" up with him.
  • lousgirl84
    I hear ya!!
  • allenallen
    "Got anything more... I dunknow... diaperish?"
  • johnsidi
    the american gentelment like thearab gentelmen thei're not differents aspect fortunately i do'nt like the people in the gulf or in the north-africa because that i mean this is sluts that somebody who talking some day about them
  • johnsidi
    i said that i hate the arab countries if you don't understanding what i'm saying fuck fukc
  • darin29
    Vitter and the other right wingers who are always "outraged" should condemn druggie Limbaugh and psycotic Glenn beck each for calling fel,low LA US Senator Nancy Landrieau (D) at prostitute for getting money for her State in upcoming health bill she graciously then 'allowed' to be debated.
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