CenLamar | Est. 2006

Robert Frenzel of Texas, a man who works for the private investigation agency hired by David Vitter’s campaign for governor, was arrested this morning after allegedly recording a conversation between Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand and Louisiana State Sen. Danny Martiny at a coffee shop in Old Metairie. According to multiple sources, Sheriff Normand noticed Frenzel, 30, behaving suspiciously and asked if he was recording his conversation. Frenzel then bolted from the restaurant and began running down the street, leaving his rental car behind in the parking lot. Police pursued Frenzel and then arrested and booked him into custody. Although the booking…

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, only hours before Louisiana voters head to the polls to determine their next governor, three other witnesses- Jeanette Maier, the former Canal Street Madam; another woman who wanted to be known as Vanna and who asked that both her face and her voice be distorted for fear of reprisal, and a man named Ricky, the owner of a barbershop across the street from a former brothel, each came forward, in separate stories published in both Gambit and on American Zombie. And each alleged that U.S. Sen. David Vitter was a client of prostitutes in New Orleans during the…

“One would hope… that when an officeholder commits serious offenses, the negative reaction of the citizenry would make it impossible for him to govern effectively,” a Tulane and Loyola Law adjunct professor wrote in the pages of The Times-Picayune in October of 1998. At the time, Congress was deciding whether or not to impeach President Bill Clinton, and the law professor argued that Clinton, however effective he may have been as an executive, was nonetheless unfit to govern. The problem, he contended, was about Clinton’s “moral fitness.” “President Clinton, having had a workplace affair with an intern in the Oval Office complex,…