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Report: Vitter opponent sleeping with stepson's wife
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jul 20, 2010 03:50pm |
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| Author | Justin Elliott |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 20, 2010 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Louisiana Republicans are facing a choice between a family values incumbent who solicited prostitutes and a family values challenger who is currently sleeping with his stepson's estranged wife.
Most people know about the travails of Sen. David Vitter, including the 2007 revelation that he visited prostitutes and the more recent scandal over aide Brent Furer, who Vitter kept on staff working on women's issues even after Furer was charged with assaulting his girlfriend.
When Vitter got a primary challenger in retired state Supreme Court Justice Chet Traylor earlier this month, the Traylor campaign signalled it was going to focus on the Furer and prostitution scandals -- Traylor even admitted that he was ideologically indistinguishable from Vitter. This was a man who had written a landmark 2000 opinion upholding the state's sodomy law, arguing that "any claim that private sexual conduct between consenting adults is constitutionally insulated from state proscription is unsupportable."
So this news today from the Monroe News Star looking at Traylor's many affairs calls into question what he was thinking when he decided to get into a race on the basis of personal integrity: |
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