More Top Picks Best High Impact Sports Bras For Large Busts
player ready...Sen. David Vitter, R-La.,and wife Wendy at a news conference in Metairie, La., Monday, July 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
by Frank James
How would you like to have hanging over you the prospect of being called into court to testify about “services” you received from a call-girl service?
It’s certainly not the best way to start your work week but that’s just how it’s begun for Sen. David Vitter.
Vitter, as you’ll recall, is the Republican senator from Louisiana whose name and phone number were found in the records of one Deborah Palfrey who allegedly ran a Washington prostitution ring. After this information became public, Vitter held one of those wife-by-his-side press conferences in which he admitted to “sin,” but didn’t detail it.
According to the Associated Press, if Vitter is called into court, he may have difficulty not telling inquiring minds what they want to know.
The Republican senator was identified Monday as one of several possible witnesses as jury selection began in the racketeering and money laundering case against Deborah Palfrey. Vitter has acknowledged being involved with her escort service. But after issuing brief statements apologizing for “a very serious sin,” he has ducked follow-up questions.
On the witness stand, he would not have that luxury. One of Palfrey’s previous attorneys has said he wanted to make Vitter say exactly what services Palfrey’s company provided the senator.
Palfrey maintains that her firm, Pamela Martin and Associates, offered fantasy services, not sexual ones. Any woman who sold sex was a “rogue escort” who violated company policy, she says.
Fortunately for Vitter, his term is up in 2010 so by the time that campaign comes around, all of this may seem like, if not distant history, certainly history nonetheless.