The juicy gossip making the rounds around the internet and the halls of Washington power is yesterday’s announced Senate departure by Trent Lott. Late yesterday news broke that Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt, the bane of Clinton impeachment proponents, has been hot on the trail of Trent Lott and his surreptitous assignations in the hermetically sealed closet that is his sex life. Flynt more or less confirmed his magazine’s investigation on Neil Cavuto this afternoon.
Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Let’s give’em somethin’ to talk about” won’t stop playing in my head. I only wish I could call around Jackson, Mississippi and chat up the politico’s to get a taste of the more salacious gossip. This impending gay-escort scandal is the juciest outing since Mississippi Congressman John Hinson was arrested for attempted sodomy in a Capitol Hill men’s room in 1981.
The speculation as to which lucky Republican Gov. Haley Barbour will appoint to the Senate centers on retiring Congressman Chip Pickering and Congressman Roger Wicker. State law, according to the Secretary of State’s office, mandates a special election within 90 days of Lott’s resignation if he resigns at any point this year. The GOP seems hell bent on bending that interpretation and Lott seems dead set on retiring this year to take up lobbying, which would be delayed by two years by federal statute if he retires after December 31st. I do so look forward to how this meladrama unfolds.
Addendum: Looks like the Larry Craig like gossip surrounding Trent Lott is just that-Gossip.
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