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IF VITTER TESTIFIES, HE MUST RESIGN, SAYS LOUISIANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN
Thursday, March 27, 2008
PRESS
RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE CONTACT:
Julie Vezinot March 27,
2008 225-336-4155
IF VITTER TESTIFIES, HE MUST RESIGN,
SAYS LOUISIANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY
CHAIRMAN
BATON ROUGE - In the wake of the
scandal involving former Gov. Eliot Spitzer,
Sen. David Vitter has spent the past two weeks
ducking calls from Republicans and Democrats
throughout the state to follow the example of
the disgraced Governor and resign from office.
Now, with the prospect that Vitter will be
called as a witness in the upcoming trial of
alleged DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the
question of whether Vitter will remain defiant
and continue to cling to his office becomes all
the more significant.
As reported over the weekend by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, whether Sen. Vitter will be called to testify in the Palfrey case will likely be known on April 7 when jury selection begins.
Chris Whittington, chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party, once more calls on Sen. Vitter to spare the state the embarrassment of such testimony from a sitting United States Senator and resign.
"What we are facing is the prospect of a sitting United States Senator testifying, in open court, over his involvement with an alleged prostitution ring," said Whittington. "That Sen. Vitter, at such a critical time in our state's history, has decided that it's in his best interest to subject the people of Louisiana to such humiliation is selfish and unforgivable.
"This act of selfishness by Sen. Vitter is only matched by the act of selfishness that got him into trouble in the first place," Whittington said. "Someone, like Sen. Vitter, who puts his own desires over the reputation of his family and his state, has no business representing us in Washington.
"He is politically impotent and personally disgraced," Whittington said. "Why is it that we as Louisianans have to continue to share in this stain on our state's reputation?
"Thus,
once again, on behalf of Democrats and
Republicans and men and women throughout the
state of Louisiana who are desperate for a
change in the way our state is perceived
nationally, we call on Sen. Vitter to stand up,
be a man and resign from office."
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