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
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.
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!
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 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.
. . . forgot da linky
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ex-gop-senator-admits-to-fathering-son-outside?ref=fpb
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?
It only matters if the republican owns the dirt.
Responses are so predictable…a glee club of the blind
Marsha and Foster are the same bot, working from the same script.
The proof is in the reading.
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?
Hey Foster are you Marsha’s little brother?
I am truly grateful to the owner of this website who has shared this fantastic piece of writing at at this place.
“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?
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…
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???
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 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 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.
Magginkat, and there are no examples of Demo hypocrisy are there? Hypocrisy knows no political affiliation.
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?
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.