Memo to Senator David Vitter: This is how you do it.
Paddy Agnew, reporting from Rome for The Irish Times , writes:
What does a public figure do when caught in flagrante with a prostitute? If you are an Italian deputy, the best line of defence would appear to be all-out attack, brazen it out and hope for the best. At least, that seems to be the tactic adopted by 50-year-old Cosimo Mele, of the ex-Christian Democrat UDC party, deputy for the constituency of Brindisi, southern Italy. The story began last Saturday morning when a “lady of the night” was rushed to Rome’s San Giacomo hospital from the fashionable Hotel Flora in central Via Veneto. The 29-year-old woman, FZ, who was suffering from a cocaine overdose, reported that she and a “colleague” had taken part in a little party with a politician.
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