{"id":321,"date":"2007-07-11T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T14:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/political-ethics-conundrum\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T22:07:15","slug":"political-ethics-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/political-ethics-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Ethics Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

from ThinkProgress.org’s <\/a>summary of today’s\u00a0headlines – following up on the story of Sen. Vitter’s phone number showing up on the DC’s madam’s list: \u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. David Vitter visited a Canal Street brothel several times \u201cbeginning in the mid-1990s, paying $300 per hour for services at the bordello.\u201d Attempting to defend Vitter against the “solicitation of prostitution charges,” the so-called \u201cCanal Street Madam\u201d whose operation was shut down by a federal investigators in 2001 said, \u201cI want his wife to know he\u2019s a good man.\u201d
\n++++My question: If the rate was $300 an hour, would a politician try to slide by with paying only $10 for the 2 minutes he used?<\/p>\n

TalkingPointsMemo.org<\/strong> <\/a>has great stuff today on Vitter’s denunciations of Bill Clinton’s moral turpitude, which coincidentally occurred at the same time Vitter was being billed for time logged by hookers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from ThinkProgress.org’s summary of today’s\u00a0headlines – following up on the story of Sen. Vitter’s phone number showing up on the DC’s madam’s list: \u00a0 Sen. 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