A high-ranking EPA official, Region 8 Administrator James Martin, will resign after weeks of scrutiny over allegations that he used a personal email account to conduct “official business.” Martin was accused of using his private me.com account to confirm a meeting with the general counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. That would not appear a catastrophic event, but what truly interests me is the Senator who has been leading the charge: Louisiana Senator David Vitter. It was Vitter who used his official cellphone to arrange liaisons with prostitutes from the Senate floor. He first attacked reporters and witnesses as liars before reluctantly admitting the truth and claiming to have been forgiven for his sins. He then demanded to use campaign funds to pay for his legal fees. He was not only not charged but reelected to the Senate.
Vitter was quick to note that the resignation came after his demanding answers regarding the use of a private account for official business and noted that Martin had recently hired legal counsel. Presumably, unlike Vitter, Martin would have paid for such private counsel himself.
This is part of a larger email investigation that already claimed former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson who resigned in the middle of the investigation. There is clearly a violation of agency rules, but the GOP might have found a less problematic choice for the senator leading the charge.
Source: Senate Committee
Is there more to this?
Great to see how Obummer sticks up for his agency officials. Guess you gotta be closer to the inner circle to get the official Obummer protection insurance.
Vitter is one more example of Republcian Hypocrisy. But gee, he’s been forgiven and saved so that makes everything alright. What do you bet that he is still having his prostitutes on the side?
Magginkat, and there are no examples of Demo hypocrisy are there? Hypocrisy knows no political affiliation.
I understand that the specifics of Vitter’s alleged conduct with the prostitutes are not entirely relevant but given how deeply bizarre they are they should be included anytime he is mentioned. The man isn’t just a whore monger, he may be a really really weird one.
For those who don’t know, it is alleged that when he was with these prostitutes, he liked to dress in a diaper and be mothered. I don’t have enough brain bleach to begin to imagine what “mothered” means.
What Vitter did was illegal but hey he’s a repub and they have no problem with that. But Weiner, what he did was ridiculous and inappropriate but not illegal and he gets railroaded out.
The fact of vitter being reelected is no surprise (sad,y), Bachman and Boehner did too. Maybe time to go back and read the blogpost about the (lack of) news.
I’m gone to tell my little brother, that he should also go to see this website on regular basis to get updated from hottest reports.
What leejcaroll said. Vitter is dirty, but he considers himself a Christian, so all is forgiven. If something was done illegally, then it should be investigated as long as all similar alleged infractions of the law are also investigated. This case reminds me of a certain administration that used its personal phones and emails to elude investigations…who could that be???
If that’s all there is… This is crap….total crap….now, if he was using this to avoid FOIA…. Then maybe a reprimand should be in order…
“It was Vitter who used his official cellphone to arrange liaisons with prostitutes from the Senate floor.”
So was Vitter the first to do it on the Senate floor?
They say the first time is the best.
Will it be Vitter The First vs Al Gore in 1487?
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Hey Foster are you Marsha’s little brother?
Folks…..stop staring at Vitter,
This proves my asserticn (at least it adds weight to it) that agencies do not do there duty. Only pretend to do so while getting support from the corporations they are supposed to regulate and policel
The bureaucrat used his private email, perhaps hoping that his meeting with a briber would not be noticed.
Vitter?, we know all of Congress is corrupt so what’s the uproar for?
Marsha and Foster are the same bot, working from the same script.
The proof is in the reading.
It only matters if the republican owns the dirt.
Responses are so predictable…a glee club of the blind
Here’s another example of the Senate Republican lawyers club, doing the dirty as usual, actually kind of twisted, and asking for the obligatory forgiveness. And, also of course, being a moral, upstanding, and likely ‘christian’, that forgiveness is once again in all our hearts, and we need only sign the relevant document to exonerate him from any moral failing.
Swallowing our totally misplaced self pride, we recognize there but for fortune go you or I. Actually, I think, this [belated] revelation only make this man’s stature grow in our eyes and lifts him from any possible connection to run-of-the-mill scumbucket status. And makes me feel dirty for even having the passing thought.
Now can I get and amen?
. . . forgot da linky
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ex-gop-senator-admits-to-fathering-son-outside?ref=fpb
DonS,
I am confused. Do you still believe that with our electoral system that we can have clean, honest folks in Congress?
I’d even venture to go so far as saying that the whole town is crooked. That would include those lobbying for good causes. Why? Because they know that they have to be as crooked as all the rest to get anything done.
Where do the good cause lobbyist get theirs? In the same place as the others, In the bank account or other usual forms. They get to wear haloes at cocktail parties.
Democracy? Bah. Not so far ever since 1776.
Still beating the wrong horse. Is the EPA guy so hard to investigate? Or why else does he get a pass here at JT’s.
BFN Back later.
DonS,
I saw that article that you linked to. It is even more amazing because the mother of the child was the daughter of another Republican Senator at the time of conception! Banjo music comes to mind!
is707, be not confuses my son. Nay, I have no hope for our government, but there are just so many ways you an say something without feeling guilty for being boring
raff, banjo music indeed. l live close to West Virginia, have worked with a lot of West Virginians in therapy (i be the therapist, though who knows if that’s the proper configuration) Some would slander W. Virginia saying it would be normal in W. Virginia. I’d say it’s more and more normal because it’s the Congress. Which resembleS a really dysfunctional family.
To those that talk about Repubs foibles, get a life! we are all human, left, right, center, upside down, inside out, there are dirty politicians of every stripe. So Vitter made calls from the senate floor, Barney had sex on the house floor. And he probably wasn’t the first. Anybody know of of the news about Jesse Jackson Jr? How about our ex Pres having oral sex in the oval office, and he probably wasn’t the first either.
get off your high horse that repubs are dirty, they are all human and they all do things dumb and selfish on a more frequent basis than any of us would prefer.
Funny, the Repubs never seem to have any problem with the defense agencies. They must be perfect, I suppose.
Paul:
“get off your high horse that repubs are dirty, they are all human and they all do things dumb and selfish on a more frequent basis than any of us would prefer.”
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That’s the excuse I used to hear from most every defendant I represented as court-appointed counsel. That cop is dirty; the prosecutor is dirty, and even the judge is dirty so why pick on me? Unfortunately my clients invariably found out that throwing mud at everyone made them not one bit cleaner. Tarring everyone else didn’t make them any less guilty either and it won’t help the Repubs this time around.
Paul, I have found here that most are equal opportunity critics of sleaze of either party. Repubs, in my observation, just seem to have a greater flair for it although I’ll admit, it’s a close call.
And making excuses such as “we all have foibles” (don’t we know) doesn’t do much as an argument in support of a class of folks we are suppose to have trust in. And Congresscritters usually leave out no opportunity to say revering them is as it should be although, relatedly, I half think we are reaching the point where that sleaze will be so deep that the excuse de jour will be “hey we’re no better or worse” than the average shlump. (only you peons should continue to think so).
Vitter got away with his misconduct because he is a FAMILY VALUES REPUBLICAN. They get away with everything.
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What Dorothy says.
So what’s new? Messpo shows that it has been around for decades (so how boring is that?). Others chime in with their bells in the same tune. Here is criticism enough that all can get a share other than Dorothy.
Same o’ same o’ , other than my insistant requests that you look at a new horse, the agencies and the EPA man is a good example.
Am I boring? Do be the first to tell me.
Am I relevant?? Mostly, and definitely now. The rest are playing a game of pin the blame on a familiar donkey.
Do I amuse you? Couldn’t care less. That I picked on you has with your apperent intelligence. Guess that I overestimated. Opinions. Not snarks.
DonS – remember how steadfastly this administration stood behind Sharrod Brown when Andrew Dimbart took after her with a willfully edited clip designed to smear her? What did they wait, 5 minutes before tossing her overboard? And then a week later when the truth of that awful little mans plot became clear they couldn’t manage even a tiny bit of public regret or outrage.
Yes, hypocrisy is alive and well in both parties but if you want to see where the difference is compare how this administration has treated people attacked on the flimsiest of trumped up BS to the last administration that fought for criminals caught red-handed in its midst. Even the outing of a CIA agent and the destruction of years of careful intelligence gathering couldn’t get them to dump their criminals.
id707, I’m not quite sure how to respond to your elliptical, at least to me, questions. But I think you are basically passionate and sincere.
I like this site, which is really hard to characterize, in part because it gives me the opportunity to test the edge of my own conviction — at a time when critique is still possible, but meaningful action seems much less so. I.e., does it even matter? That speaks for the negative side of my personality. Yeah, so I enjoy rolling ideas around in my head, but beside hearing myself think and talk, it’s more like pissing in the wind. (that would be describing me; none others implied).
Frankly, I totally agree with the thrust of you first point, and I’m still working on the second
Pete Dominici admits to child from relationship with another senators wife. But went after Clinton for lack of truthfulness (as opposed to the perjury charge).
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2013/02/21/domenici-acknowledges-having-son-outside-marriage-2
Yep this family man, republican, father of 8 excoriates others but was okay for him.
We need a full investigation of the millions of emails that were lost by the EOP under the Bush administration…that CREW and National Security Archives filed suit to recover…
CREW-Bush emails….
… http://www.citizensforethics.org/index.php/press/entry/crew-and-obama-settle-lawsuit-over-missing-bush-white-house-emails/ …
leej
BIG CORRECTION NEEDED!!!
The woman was Sen Laxalt’s DAUGHTER. She was single and 24.
“The woman was Sen Laxalt’s DAUGHTER. She was single and 24.”
Daughter, wife? What’s the difference. Oh yeah, they both said it was a one night ‘mistake’ I guess that counts for extra points on the ‘I’m not really the sleazebag from hell’ scale.
Sry for the error.
Reminds me of one Jesus’ parables. The master forgives his servant and the servant turns around demanding punishment of someone beneath him. Religious Right Hypocrisy! Tell us, Senator Vitter, how do you like your diapers changed? You bad, naughty boy. I think I can guess why you feel such shame.
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