Check out this awesome little piece in the Times last week involving a porn star running for senate, a religious right-wing republican getting bust using hookers after the “madame” of the brothel leaked it to the press. And that same “madame” later found dead having “committed suicide after being convicted of running a prostitution ring.

This, from The Times UK:

It is a US Senate race to savour, pitting a porn star named Stormy — the proud winner of the 2007 Golden G-string award — against a Christian family-values Republican shamed after being caught cavorting with prostitutes.

In these gloomy days of global recession and soaring unemployment, the Louisiana Senate race is brightening the lives of many, courtesy of Stormy Daniels, who set off on a “listening tour” of her home state yesterday, taking on David Vitter, the Republican senator, with the slogan: “Stormy Daniels: Screwing People Honestly”.

 

Stormy Daniels
Porn star cum politician

Ms Daniels says that she is running in response to an internet campaign called Draft Stormy that she claims has got people even more excited than viewers of her hit films Space Nuts and Taken. Whatever the outcome, her decision to thrust her 36-inch chest into Louisiana politics is dragging Mr Vitter’s 2007 prostitution scandal back into the limelight.

“He ran for the Senate on a family values, anti-sex education platform,” Ms Daniels told The Times. “And he’s caught with prostitutes. That’s hypocritical. Call me what you will, but you can’t call me a hypocrite.”

[more here]

Come on man, it’s just too good!

The report also ended with a wonderful tid bit. A quick breakdown of four famous politically inclined non-politicians. Geniedit.

The Queen of England Actress Glenda Jackson, best known for playing Queen Elizabeth I in the TV serial, hung up her crown to become MP for Hampstead and Highgate in 1992. She ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the Labour candidate for London Mayor in 2000

The trailblazer Ilona Staller, better known as Cicciolina, was the first porn star to enter politics. She was elected an MP for Italy’s Radical Party but became most famous around the world for flashing her breasts in public

The recovering alcoholic It was said that George W. Bush won the 2000 US elections because voters would rather have a beer with him than Al Gore. Bush, however, had stopped drinking 14 years earlier after decades of alcohol abuse

The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived in the US from Austria aged 21, unable to speak English. He became a champion bodybuilder, a millionaire tycoon, married a Kennedy and starred in more than 40 movies before he was made Governor of California in 2003

The Beauty Queen Former Miss Great Britain Gemma Garrett attempted to fill David Davis’s shoes after his protest over the 42-day detention law prompted a by-election in Haltemprice and Howden. She won 521 votes — not enough to trump Davis, who regained his seat

The washed-up actor Ronald Reagan starred in B-list movies with such titles as Swing Your Lady and Bedtime for Bonzo before being elected to the White House in 1981. He was named the most popular president since Eisenhower

[thanks g-man]