P.I. who found alleged Vitter prostitute was at Normand breakfast meeting while Vitter's spy watched
It was Spy vs. Spy for real.
When U.S. Sen. David Vitters gumshoe, Robert Frenzel, staked out the Royal Blend coffee shop in Old Metairie the morning before Saturdays gubernatorial primary, one of the men he wound up spying on was a PI himself, who had been hired to dig up dirt on Vitter.
In a state thats nearly bankrupt, the first week of the runoff campaign has been dominated by a circuslike sideshow, as Vitter and his foes argue over the meaning of an explosion of espionage that feels a bit like a miniature Cold War being fought in Jefferson Parish and New Orleans. Vitter, a Republican, will face Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards in a Nov. 21 runoff.
Frenzel actually was after John Cummings the man with the white beard whom Vitters gubernatorial campaign had wanted him to watch and Frenzel was right on his heels when Cummings entered the coffee shop.
As Cummings joined his regular coffee klatch at a large table, Frenzel sat down nearby. Among the others present were Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, state Sen. Danny Martiny and private eye Danny DeNoux.
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