Vitter's New GOP Challenger Says ABC News Report On Violent Aide Helped Spur Primary Bid

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Source: ABC News

Chet Traylor Says Women 'Concerned' About Senator's Record and Ex-Aide Brent Furer

July 12, 2010 —

The last-minute primary challenger to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter told ABC News he entered the race because of what he describes as a groundswell of concern among Republicans that Vitter may be too damaged by scandal to survive the general election.

"I got so many phone calls in the last week or two, they wanted another option," said Chet Traylor, a retired state supreme court justice who has just launched his first statewide campaign. "They want, and I want Louisiana to have, a Republican senator."

Traylor said Republicans he spoke with were specifically concerned about the recent reports surrounding Vitter's longtime aide, Brent Furer. As first reported by ABC News, Furer had a history of trouble with law enforcement -- including arrests for cocaine possession and drunk driving  and in 2008 was charged with assaulting a female friend with a knife, holding her hostage for 90 minutes, and threatening to kill her. After the episode, Furer continued to serve in Vitter's senate office and was listed in congressional guides as the senator's point man on women's issues.

"That was a concern for a lot of people," Traylor said. "And certainly to women. I don't believe you put someone in charge of women's affairs who's had the kind of problems he's got."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/david-vitters-gop-challenger-abc-news-report-violent/story?id=11143756

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1. how is it that he's not sitting in prison behind that shit?

Vitter's longtime aide, Brent Furer. As first reported by ABC News, Furer had a history of trouble with law enforcement -- including arrests for cocaine possession and drunk driving  and in 2008 was charged with assaulting a female friend with a knife, holding her hostage for 90 minutes, and threatening to kill her. After the episode, Furer continued to serve in Vitter's senate office and was listed in congressional guides as the senator's point man on women's issues.

I swear, money will grease the elite white collar criminal's way out of everything.

I thought holding someone against their will at knife point was a felony offense? How is it he's not sitting in prison behind that?

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2. IOKIYAR

SATSQ

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3. Taylor will run the campaign the democrats oughta be running lol nt

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4. Great, he's entering the primary because GOP leaders worry Vitter won't survive the general election

So a nasty primary fight could further damage its winner in the general election.

Let's just watch the shit hit the ... diaper.