NOW President: LA Sen. David Vitter’s “Disdain” For Women Makes Him Ineligible For Service

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter is the definition of teflon tough. Having been caught patronizing a DC prostitution ring and made to apologize before the press, Vitter put his head down, plowed through his Senate term, and got through it without resigning. But the trouble isn’t over for the Republican senator, who has now been revealed to employ a domestic abuser as his liaison for women’s affairs and has sixteen challengers in his primary election.

The Nation Washington Editor Chris Hayes, filling in for Rachel Maddow, had the president of the National Organization for Women, Terry O’Neill, on the program to explain Vitter’s “women problem.” Well, for one, he claimed the staffer in question for assaulting his wife was actually not in charge of women’s issues: “He handled issues including abortion issues, including several other issues, but not women’s affairs.”

O’Neill took more offense at his defense that the assault was too old to matter than the abortion remark. “It’s rank hypocrisy for him to say this was two years old… it’s very much a present issue.” The fact that Vitter knew about the crimes and continued to have the staffer in his office, she argues, “shows such a disdain for the women of Louisiana and really the women of the country.”

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