Senator Debbie Stabenow (D) has divorced her husband – and, frankly, she should have gotten one free kick in the groin in, too. This stems from an incident in 2006 where then-husband Thomas Athans got arrested for soliciting a prostitute. David Catanese calls the details ‘not pretty,’ and I agree:
Athans, 46 at the time, was not charged with soliciting and testified against the 21-year-old Westland woman. The woman was sentenced to probation on a charge of misdemeanor trespassing.
The older I get, the more hard-nosed (and less libertarian) I become about prostitution*. But there’s something off-putting about a john being able to skate on a solicitation arrest by testifying against a hooker on a misdemeanor charge. You have to wonder whether the sentence “Do you know who I am?” was uttered at any point during the initial arrest… and whether it, indeed, made a difference…
Moe Lane (more…)
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, and is (to the best to my knowledge) in the public domain.