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Louisiana Democrats launch Petition to Defund David Vitter

Today, the Louisiana Democratic Party launched an online petition calling for legislation to prohibit public funds from going to U.S. Senator David Vitter. The petition has been posted on the Party's blog, Doing a Vitter.

The Defund Vitter petition calls on the U.S. Congress to pass a resolution acknowledging Vitter's criminal past, ineffective legislative record and history of political grandstanding. The resolution concludes that David Vitter should be prohibited from receiving federal funds.

"David Vitter says he wants to make sure federal money doesn't go to people who break the law and the Louisiana Democratic Party agrees," said spokesman Kevin Franck.  "It's time to defund David Vitter."
 
The full text of the petition is below:

We, the undersigned, hereby call on the U.S. Congress to immediately* pass the following resolution to defund David Vitter:

RESOLUTION

Prohibiting the use of federal funds to support David Vitter

Whereas David Vitter has admitted engaging in criminal activity while in public office;

Whereas David Vitter has used taxpayer-funded government facilities to engage in criminal activity;

Whereas David Vitter has been the subject of repeated criminal and civil investigations by federal and local law enforcement;

Whereas David Vitter is currently ranked 85th in effectiveness in the U.S. Senate and has no significant legislative accomplishments;

Whereas David Vitter appears driven more by a desire to score political points than enact legislation that would benefit the people of Louisiana;

Whereas Louisiana taxpayers should not be forced to fund David Vitter's criminal activity or partisan political grandstanding;

Resolved, that it is the sense of the U.S Congress that all federal funding of David Vitter should be prohibited.

* By 'immediately,' we, the undersigned, mean that Congress should pass legislation to defund David Vitter after the economy is back on track, our health care system has been fixed, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been brought to responsible conclusions, our country is safe from terrorist attack, all American children have the opportunity to attend quality public schools and all other pressing national problems have been resolved. Further, we, the undersigned, acknowledge that Congress has much better things to do with its time than pass narrow pieces of legislation that serve only partisan political ends. Just in case Congress does not get around to passing this resolution in the next year, we, the undersigned, pledge to do our best to defund David Vitter at the ballot box.