Roll Call: Blunt's "Kinky Money"

Under the headline, Kinky Money, today's Roll Call reports that one of Rep. Roy Blunt biggest contributors last year to his leadership PAC was a businessman who made his fortune in the phone sex business.

From Roll Call:

Seeing as he’s an outspoken social conservative, some folks were surprised to find out that one of the largest contributors to Rep. Roy Blunt’s (R-Mo.) political action committee last year was a businessman who made his fortune in the 1990s off the phone-sex business.

Jeffrey Prosser, dubbed by the Columbia Journalism Review in a 1998 story “a world-class phone-sex operator,” gave $5,000 to Blunt’s Rely On Your Beliefs fund in 2005 and his wife, Dawn Prosser, gave another $5,000, making them the largest donor couple to Blunt’s PAC.

Prosser, who owns the Virgin Islands Telephone Co., its cable television company and the territory’s largest newspaper, was scheduled to “shed” the phone-sex side of his business in a complicated split with his partner, CJR reported. But it’s hard to ignore his recent past raking in the bucks off porn chat lines.

More:

Blunt’s ROYB Fund executive director, Keri Ann Hayes, said the Congressman had no clue that Prosser was a 1-900 kind of a guy. “Mr. Blunt was not aware of the colorful history of this individual contributor when his PAC accepted the donation,” she said.

Hayes said Blunt will not return the money because “the funds were given in a 100 percent legal and ethical fashion.”

Interesting family values, those Blunts.

Hat tip to the Carpetbagger.