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Dem Senator's Hubby Caught in Hooker Bust

Posted by Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone at 12:03 PM on April 2, 2008.


Hooker. Big Beaver Road. Exit 69. Could a Sen. Debbie Stabenow's husband have possibly been caught in a worse place during a prostitution sting?
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If today was April 1st, I’d view the following story a bit skeptically. However. It’s April 2nd.

The co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive Democracy Radio and husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was caught in February by a Troy police sting aimed at catching prostitutes, according to a police report.

Thomas L. Athans was stopped Feb. 26 by undercover officers investigating a possible prostitution ring in a room at the Residence Inn near Big Beaver and Interstate 75. Athans paid a 20-year-old prostitute $150 for sex in a Troy hotel but was not arrested, according to police reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Detroit News…

Hooker. Big Beaver Road. Exit 69. I’m not making this up.

Big Beaver Rd., Troy, Mi.

Debbie Stabenow has been on my personal shitlist since she voted for the Indentured Servitude Act of 2005, and extended her stay on my list after voting for torture in 2006. Still, I don’t particularly wish her husband’s indiscretions upon her.

h/t Atrios

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Richard Blair is the blogmaster of All Spin Zone.


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so, althens goes to troy
Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on Apr 2, 2008 12:19 PM   
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and gets a room with a trojan ho and is taken down by some men from their hiding place.

*light bulb*

*begins writing*

*thinks to self: 'this is going to be a classic!"

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» doh! Posted by: KaptainSpiffy
» RE: so, althens goes to troy Posted by: catmandoo
Big Beaver Road exit 69, not a myth.
Posted by: Deidzoeb on Apr 2, 2008 4:04 PM   
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I've driven past exit 69 for Big Beaver Road. It's real. French trappers are generally to blame for all names in Mich that weren't stolen from ethnically cleansed indigenous people. About every third lake in Michigan is named "Portage Lake" or "Big Portage" or "Little Portage."

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Poor woman
Posted by: foreverhope on Apr 2, 2008 7:22 PM   
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I'm sorry, but are ALL men pigs? I mean, yes I am liberal but isn't this just plain wrong or is it just me?

I feel so so sorry for these wives. Bad enough for this to happen behind closed doors, yes privately devastating, but to have your face and life all over the news, for friends and foes alike to know and discuss, is unimaginable.

Don't these men care a bit what happens to their wives and children? I just don't understand.

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» Sad statement for our times. Posted by: chuckjs
» RE: Sad statement for our times. Posted by: foreverhope
» RE: Sad statement for our times. Posted by: sui_generis
» RE: People do what they want to with their lives Posted by: rfrancis@godisdead.com
Based on her offical website...
Posted by: buddyedgewood on Apr 2, 2008 9:54 PM   
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I'd say the Senator and the hubby aren't too close to begin with. There’s one little mention in her bio of him and two pics of her and the kids - none of him and her. And there's no bragging about how long they've been married - politician usually gush over that. I won't go into the snake pit by bringing up the fact she didn't take his last name, or even hyphenate it, when they were married. Bottom line, she's a 50 something career politician (30+ years) , I'd guess that she's probably very extroverted, ambitious, too busy for the family and the hubby is/was the stay at home dad, meek, weak and introverted - all this could have something to do with the hubby running off to a 20 year hooker... but I’m just guessing. So let's put this perspective… an overweight, 50 something “too busy to care” wife versus a 20 year old hottie (albeit skank). The $150 skank wins! Yes, we men are pigs. Blame god and get on with your life.

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» RE:from a constituent Posted by: kabac55
Kinda ironic
Posted by: hurricane hugo on Apr 2, 2008 10:45 PM   
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that she voted for that torture bill a couple of years back.
Karma's a bitch.

jdfu!

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Living In Glass Houses.
Posted by: itchyvet on Apr 3, 2008 3:40 AM   
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Ireally have a thumpin good belly laugh, every time I see/hear/read of such antics in the U.S.
The Hypocrisy emanating from that country just boggles my mind.
This is a country that has brought us Sleaze with a capital "S", topless bars, poledancing and flaunting topless and naked actresses in their Hollywood productions.
Never, is the business of sexual favours ever frowned upon there, nor at any of your colleges, where it would appear young men do not come of age unless they've had it off with a hooker, and Do their Moms protest ?
Not on your life.
So folks, how about it, a little less of your hysteria when somone get caught with their pants down Huh, after all, who gives a fig anyway, what people do behind closed doors ?
Oh, Oh, sorry, forgot about your National Security hype, crikey, how can you ever call your country free ?
Boy, should call your land the land of Hypocrites.

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What's wrong with you people!
Posted by: chuckjs on Apr 3, 2008 3:54 AM   
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I am still trying to figure out why this kind of crap and nonsense is even being covered by the MSM and ALternet. Really, with all the problems in your country, you find the fact that a man, who cheated on his wife, BIG NEWS! No, Not that she voted to support tortue but her husbands indiscrections!

It takes her husband fooling around on her for everybody to start pointing out the real news, A politician that supports torture! Hey but that's not what this article is about is it.

And again what does her husbands indiscretions have to do with her leadership ability. Last time I checked even my immediate family had no effect on how I did my job. And their actions were not brought up during my yearly job performance evaluation either.

And then the comments! God, one lady starts out calling all men pigs and the next poster supports it and starts GUESSING about what this lady's relationship is like, with her husband and family, based on no facts, but an immense amount of innuendo and supposition. And then he actually, with no basis in fact, tries to blame this woman for her husbands cheating.

I can see why there is a problem in the US. A large percentage of the people are too busy calling people names and not spending near enough time calling them to task for what they say and do! They just folloow the media dribble and allow thenselves to be distrated from the real issues.

When are you folks going to stop allowing the mainstream media to provoke a useless and trivial discussion. Why do you insist on holding one person responsible for someone elses actions or words. Why not do what makes perfect sense and actually ask the person responsible about their actions and words.

Think and speak critically, not nonsensically, people.

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» RE: Even cursing is worse than killing Posted by: rfrancis@godisdead.com
Her spouse's indiscretions are not under her control.
Posted by: Intellect on Apr 3, 2008 4:01 AM   
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Her spouse's indiscretions are not under her control.

This is a non-story.

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Tymac
Posted by: Rudh Dalpra on Apr 3, 2008 7:39 AM   
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Debbie's doing her thing in Washington, spending her free time trolling for votes and cash for the next election, and hubby is not in the loop. She had her chance to be a real partner and chose politics. So I cut the guy a little slack. Being lonely and still interested in our favorite national passtime can be a compelling circumstance.

I doubt if Debbie cares, other than being piqued by the notoriety of joining the "abused" wives club.

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SOOOOOOO?
Posted by: mama7 on Apr 3, 2008 8:04 AM   
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this has nothing to do with Debbie Stabenow's service to the country. There are thousands out there who do not have their personal tragedies paraded through the media. Why don't we have more good candidates running for office? Perhaps because they made a mistake at sometime in their lives....of course critics are perfect!

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What's the point media...
Posted by: herbal on Apr 3, 2008 9:49 AM   
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are we to conclude that adulterous Democrats are all adulterous straights being set up by the consistently uptight fag Republicans?

Write instead about the psychology of J Edgar Hoover in the context of repressed sexual identity.

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I Hate Cops, they area a Worthless Drain on Tax Money
Posted by: rfrancis@godisdead.com on Apr 3, 2008 12:19 PM   
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I hate this BS, just what we need, spending our money to hire cops to arrest people for consensual crimes like this.

Fire the worthless cops, give me back my tax money, and let these johns and hookers do whatever the hell they want.

What the freakin' hell.

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Criminalizing VICE & loss of PRIVACY *aborts* POPULIST REFORM & Representative Gov't
Posted by: BlueBerry PickN on Apr 9, 2008 2:28 PM   
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Vice: what is it?
.
.
.
Think about it...

The Thieves of Virtue: legislating morality undermines representative government.

really, VICE is contextual:
* gender
* ethnicity
* age
* race...

all pay a part in morals. but VICE, should never be *criminalized*, especially in a nation where PRIVACY has been abolished.

Don't confuse VICE with actual crimes, such as murder or theft.

Vice is about how you ENJOY YOUR OWN BODY & the choices you make about your body.

Who is PERFECT ENOUGH to represent THE PEOPLE or a populist reform when there is neither privacy nor the Will to preserve privacy in society?

Who stands *for the People* when Money & Power exert corrosive controls to extend their oppression & corruption?

You've been *had*

Nobody is immune to *vice* as VICE is about how ONE PERSON privately & personally determines *how to enjoy their own body*... Naked Truth: Civil Rights & CNN coverage of "F.B.I. biometric database - 'Server in the Sky'"
...& THAT is how THE MORAL MAJORITY ensured Money & Power will kill representative government for The Peoples who seek JUSTICE, Freedom & Human Rights.

"corruption is why we win":
"Yell Fire!": Bush to freeze peace activist assets? - Executive Order to "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq"

NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data

Diamond Age? - Kids, RFID Chips... & Minority Reporting?!: thoughts on the new US Project Hostile Intent (PHI)

Watching the "Ownership Society": follow-ups on Shareholder Surveillance...


~~~ Spread Love...

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