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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:31 PM
| By
Juliet Lapidos
Last week I proposed gelding politicians. This week, I propose gelding their spouses. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow's husband, Thomas Athans, was just caught in a prostitution sting. Some choice quotes from the Detroit Free Press:
"Athans was pulled over by police on I-75 minutes after leaving the Residence Inn on Livernois, just east of I-75 and south of Big Beaver, the evening of Feb. 26."
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"On further questioning, he acknowledged he had paid the woman $150 for sex."
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"Police went to the hotel after a detective working on Internet-based prostitution at hotels in the city came across a solicitation for sex on a Web site, backpage.com. Plainclothes detectives went to the hotel and set up a surveillance and watched Athans drive up, go inside and then leave about 15 minutes later."
So Athans is cheap, fast, and knows a punch line when he sees one.
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