Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Embarrassed Vitter skips vote to strip ACORN of funding
The
LA Dems press releases coming from Kevin Franck's office are consistently tremendous. The scale of improvement from a couple years ago is olympian. Look how he turns the tables on Vitty-cent:
As pressure mounts for congressional investigations into charges that ACORN provided financial assistance to prostitutes, David Vitter skipped a key Senate vote yesterday to deny federal funds to the controversial group.
In a press release issued yesterday morning, Vitter declared himself the "Senate's most outspoken critic of ACORN" and highlighted an amendment he offered last week to strip all federal funding for the group from the transportation appropriations bill. A few hours later, the Senate voted on an identical amendment, but Vitter did not cast a vote.
Today, the Advocate reported that Vitter has joined other Republicans calling for an investigation into whether ACORN employees "advised people posing as a pimp and prostitute how to skirt federal tax laws." "For months, David Vitter has been leading the charge to deny federal money to ACORN, but as soon as the topic of prostitution comes up, he doesn't even show up to work," said Louisiana Democratic Party Spokesman Kevin Franck.
Vitter may have skipped the vote to avoid calling attention to his own admission that he frequented prostitutes, according to Franck.
"Tax evasion and prostitution are serious crimes that should be investigated and it would be very surprising if David Vitter and the services he has paid for did not violate tax laws," Franck added.
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Franck's impeccable framing dominates the news coverage in these
Gannett and
ABC stories. I mean, Vitty should be getting traction on these issues, but he is neutered by a simple press release which notes that he is a recovering whoremonger. Vittycent didn't even
vote on the ACORN issue, and has to hide so he won't have to respond to these embarrassingly effective LA Dem attacks.
Don't Louisiana conservatives want a Senator who has the stones to cast a vote stripping federal funding from ACORN?
(Graphic Credit:
Michael)
Bravo, Kevin Franck. Now
that's how you do an effective press release. More of Franck's releases
here.
Labels: Dems, Vitty-cent
5 Comments:
Ouch--I misread the graphic and thought Landrieu skipped the vote. My bad.
Heh! That's funny right there, I don't care who you are.
Hay as a liberal blogger is the bivalve going to make any comments about his new savior and his deciding to extend the patriot act?
Or does he get a free pass on this one?
If only Massachusetts Dems would've been able to battle Drunk Kennedy with simple press releases after he killed that girl...
Or if West Virginia had an enterprising young Republican that could rewind the tape on Byrd's Klansmen past & quite recent racist statements in front of cameras...
Simple press-releases would have ridden us of Murderers & Racists in the hallowed halls of the Senate...
If only, if only, if only...
If only press releases could've somehow battled what became of New Orleans Public Education, City Government, & Quality of Life...
I'm sure if we had adequate operatives issuing proper press releases, we could've kept the Jeffersons out of power & disallowed them to strangle any hope of transparency & triumph of ideals instead of succumbing to the vices of personal aggrandizement & wealth/power ensconcement building...
I'm sure we could've just press released our way out of Cleo Fields in Baton Rouge somehow taking a wad of sweaty money from Edwin Washington Edwards ("It was a private business dealing") and somehow maintain a position of local power in Baton Rouge...
Or his brother hardly passing the bar before somehow being deemed worthy enough to become a judge...
How in the WORLD did I ever not "get" that Press Releases could've combatted all of this corruption, vice, murderous, (reverse)racist, Peckerwood Machiavellian machinations thrust on America, from Boston to the City That Care Forgot...
If only if only if only...
Take those press-releases, ride the President extreeeeeeeeemely long Louisiana coattails (LOL), & your Charlie Melancon, & see how you fare in the Election.
I mean, come on...I can't stand Vitter, to be honest. I detest his empty rhteoric regarding family values & morality.
But, what I can't stand even more than that is a guy who endorses spending my money like a drunken sailor on R&R in Tijuana after they just got out of the Donkey Show, dialing the same whore who just turned Vitter's trick...
I'll stick with Vitty...I'll hold my nose through his morality sham because he can balance a checkbook better than the party of the opponent, no matter if he just got laid by his wife, or a pay-for-play...
But, enjoy those "fantastic press releases" erster...
If all you have to hang your hat on in this election is Melancon & press relases, that's sort've sad...
I feel like Allen Iverson...
Press releases? Press releases? We talking about PRESS RELEASES? Not an election, not a candidate...But PRESS RELEASES?
Nice rant, Go.
