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mshollie for the tip: James Gill was one of my fave columnists in the Times-Picayune, New Orleans' major daily newspaper, when I lived there (1985-89). Nice to see he's still writing for them...and hasn't lost any of his smarts or his edge, as he shows in his latest column on creationism follies in the state lege here.
Bear in mind: this Vitter guy came within a hair's breadth of being the GOP candidate to succeed his party's outgoing governor, Mike Foster, in 2003 until a NOLA madam came forward with the news that he was one of her clients, showing yet another "family values" Republican for the sham he was and handing Bobby Jindal the top slot on the state GOP ticket on a platter. (Whether Vitter would have suffered the same defeat as Jindal did at the hands of Democrat Kathleen Blanco is left as an exercise for the reader.)
mshollie for the tip: James Gill was one of my fave columnists in the Times-Picayune, New Orleans' major daily newspaper, when I lived there (1985-89). Nice to see he's still writing for them...and hasn't lost any of his smarts or his edge, as he shows in his latest column on creationism follies in the state lege here. Bear in mind: this Vitter guy came within a hair's breadth of being the GOP candidate to succeed his party's outgoing governor, Mike Foster, in 2003 until a NOLA madam came forward with the news that he was one of her clients, showing yet another "family values" Republican for the sham he was and handing Bobby Jindal the top slot on the state GOP ticket on a platter. (Whether Vitter would have suffered the same defeat as Jindal did at the hands of Democrat Kathleen Blanco is left as an exercise for the reader.)
