In the wake of U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s admission that he engaged a Washington, D.C., prostitute, a member of the Republican State Central Committee called for him to resign.
Vincent Bruno, of Kenner, said today that Vitter should resign “for his own good, the good of the party and the good of his family.” If he doesn’t resign, Vitter should “join the Democratic Party where they think that kind of behavior is OK.”
Bruno said Vitter’s actions violate the Republican Party’s “Family Values” stance but he doesn’t expect the party leadership to do anything about it. “We had David Duke and couldn’t do anything about it.”
Ha, that's rich! Vincent Bruno was David Duke's "spiritual advisor" in 1991!! Both he and Keith Rush were fervent Duke backers, and are currently members of the governing arm of the State Republican Party. And now Bruno's complaining about how the GOP couldn't "do anything about" David Duke. Here's a thought: you could've not supported the lying Nazi racist in the first place.
Interestingly, despite his sordid history with Duke, Vincent Bruno had a huge role in bringing rumors of Vitty cent's peccadilloes out into the open. As the Louisiana Weekly reported: "Allegations against Vitter for having an eleven month affair with a prostitute were first brought in 2004 by Vincent Bruno, secretary of the Republican Party of Jefferson Parish.... The revelation caused him to drop out of the governor's race, and get into marriage counseling."
Vincent Bruno had a radio show with Chris Tidmore in 2004. [Chris Tidmore stated yesterday that "Mr. Vitter has used his considerable power to attempt to silence those who knew the truth. Those who attempted to expose hypocrisy and corruption early on were met with threats and disdain."] Despite Bruno's hideous past, I believe that he's been correct all along in his allegations about Vitter (plus I got two other inside sources who confirm his story). So keep all that in mind while reading these additional quotes from Bruno in the Shreve Times:
“They think more of the party than the right thing to do,” he said. “If they’re not going to enforce family values, they ought to take it out of the vocabulary.
“We’re the party of hypocrites,” he said. “Vote for us and we’ll lie to you, we’ll engage prostitutes and we’ll cheat on our wives.”
Bruno said he puts little stock in Vitter’s apology.
“It’s baloney,” he said. “He only fessed up to it when he got caught.”
“He needs to resign,” Bruno said. “There’s more there; I know so.”
Based on his own past comments, Vitter should support Bruno's call for Vitter to step down.
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