Vitter in a Nutshell

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Morgan Johnson, UAW President in Shreveport on junior Senator David Vitter (R-LA), who’s become a point man on killing the automaker bailout (from the Times-Picayune) …

“I don’t know what Sen. Vitter has against GM or the United Auto Workers or the entire domestic auto industry; whatever it is, whatever he thinks we’ve done, it’s time for him to forgive us, just like Sen. Vitter has asked the citizens of Louisiana to forgive him, ” said Johnson, president of Local 2166. Otherwise, Johnson said of Vitter, it would appear, “He’d rather pay a prostitute than pay auto workers.”

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