CenLamar | Est. 2006

Last Friday, the day before the Louisiana jungle primary, U.S. Sen. David Vitter left the scene of a traffic accident in his hometown of Metairie. Vitter, a candidate for governor, was running late for a lunch appointment. The police said they’d question him later. I don’t know what caused Sen. Vitter’s driver, a staffer whose home address is also the address of Vitter’s SuperPAC, to run a red light and wreck, but I wonder if it has anything to do with another story that made headlines on Friday. Robert Frenzel, a private investigator hired by the Vitter campaign, had just been arrested. Frenzel…

A year ago, U.S. Sen. David Vitter was the most popular elected official in the State of Louisiana. Today, his stunning and meteoric fall from grace is largely attributable to his own failings. This is the new Louisiana. H/t The Lens And:

Late tonight, David Vitter’s gubernatorial campaign responded to the bombshell story that their private investigator was arrested after illegally recording a conversation between Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, State Sen. Danny Martini, Danny DeNoux, and John Cummings, a private attorney, at a coffee shop in Old Metairie. Once confronted, the investigator, 30-year-old Robert Frenzel of Dallas, attempted to flee the scene. Jim Mustian and Tyler Bridges of The Advocate report: Frenzel darted from the Metairie Road cafe toward St. Francis Xavier School, the sheriff said, making his way toward Vincent Avenue. The sheriff said the man jumped the gate of an…