Stabenow Husband Busted With Hooker

More Democrat family values.

This week's installment of Democrats caught with their pants down involves Thomas Athans, husband of Michigan's Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow.

I wonder if she'll be appearing with him at a news conference?

Even more amusing, this was one of the dopes who ran Air America into the ground.

The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told police he used the Internet to make a date with a prostitute and paid her $150 for sex at a hotel, according to a police report.

Thomas Athans, 46, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network, was stopped by police who were investigating Internet-based prostitution at the hotel, the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News reported Wednesday in stories on their Web sites. The newspapers said they obtained the police report through the state Freedom of Information Act.

The Associated Press left telephone messages for Troy police on Wednesday.

Stabenow, in a statement, said it was "very disturbing and serious. Obviously it's a deeply difficult and personal matter."

Police stopped Athans' car after he left the Residence Inn in Troy on Feb. 26. Police said he acknowledged paying a woman for oral sex. Police did not bring any sex charges against him but later mailed him a ticket for driving with a suspended license, the News reported. It said he paid a $115 fine and reinstated his license.

Hmm. February 26? Why are we just getting the news now?

Police arrested Alycia Martin, 20, of Westland in the hotel room on a charge of prostitution and confiscated a cell phone, laptop and $431. There is no telephone listing for her in Westland.

Those girls in Michigan work cheap, huh?

Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, and Athans married in 2003.

He started TalkUSA Radio in 2006 after leading programming at Air America, the liberal network that declared bankruptcy that year.

Randi Rhodes and Al Franken were unavailable for comment.

More here.

Gateway Pundit and Big Head DC have more.

Update: Ed Morrissey weighs in.

Instapundit links. Thanks!

Update II: Don Surber plays Name that party: Hookersville. Thanks for the link!