{"id":182204,"date":"2015-11-22T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/22\/diaperman-finally-loses\/"},"modified":"2015-11-22T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:09:00","slug":"diaperman-finally-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/22\/diaperman-finally-loses\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaperman Finally Loses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years after being implicated in the DC Madame scandal, it appears that it has <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/261030-vitter-edwards-louisiana-governor-election\">finally cost David Vitter an election<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) announced Saturday night that he will not run for reelection after losing Louisiana&#8217;s gubernatorial runoff election.<\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards defeated Vitter, bringing an end to a rough campaign that saw Vitter fall short after entering as the heavy favorite.<\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>The New Orleans Times-Picayune <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2015\/11\/louisiana_governor_democrat.html#incart_2box_nola_river_orleans_news\">called the race<\/a> for Edwards just after 10 p.m. Eastern time Saturday night, a little more than hour after polls closed.<\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>Edwards and Vitter advanced to the runoff after finishing as the top two in the Oct. 24 open primary. In Louisiana\u2019s \u201cjungle primary\u201d system, candidates of all parties run together, with the top two finishers having a runoff if neither one secures 50 percent of the vote.<\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>The well-known Vitter, first elected to the Senate in 2004 after serving in the House of Representatives, was the prohibitive favorite during the early stages of the race. But after sustained attacks targeting his involvement in a 2007 prostitution scandal, he barely defeated two of his Republican challengers and finished in second behind the lesser-known Edwards by 14 points in the jungle primary.<\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>Jay Dardenne, Louisiana\u2019s Republican lieutenant governor, finished fourth in the jungle primary. He crossed party lines to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/governor-races\/259263-vitters-gop-opponent-endorses-democrat\">endorse<\/a> Edwards over Vitter in the runoff.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>In a particularly ruthless ad, Edwards claimed Vitter had chosen \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/governor-races\/259458-attack-ad-slams-vitter-for-choosing-prostitutes-over-patriots\">prostitutes over patriots<\/a>\u201d by skipping a vote to honor fallen soldiers in order to take a call from a prostitute.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why this scandal, which was reputed to involve diaper play on Vitter&#8217;s part, has taken so long to for him to pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this is the first time that one of his opponents actually decided to bring it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years after being implicated in the DC Madame scandal, it appears that it has finally cost David Vitter an election: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) announced Saturday night that he will not run for reelection after losing Louisiana&#8217;s gubernatorial runoff election. Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards defeated Vitter, bringing an end to a rough campaign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}