You probably heard the story a couple weeks ago that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) had a guy on his staff who attacked and actually stabbed (with a relatively minor wound, but still …) his girlfriend. But Vitter kept the guy on staff and even, reportedly, assigned him to handle women’s issues in the office. Somewhat as he did with the earlier hooker scandal, Vitter has been out of the public eye and refusing to answer any questions. But today he had to go and file papers to run for reelection and the press was there staked out to get a crack at him and ask him what was up. We’re getting initial reports and apparently he again refused to answer questions other than blurting out that it wasn’t true that he’d assigned the guy to handle women’s issues.
It actually kind of reminds me of this incident from a couple years when the local media was staked out to ask him about the hooker charges and he was in such a hurry to get away that he backed his car up into a sign in the parking lot when trying to make his getaway.
