David Vitter

As the favorite candidate to become the next Governor of Louisiana at the time, the devoted conservative Republican Senator was arrested after the “D.C. Madam” scandal broke and was accused of paying prostitutes to dress him in diapers. The Republican Party forgave him and he did not have to resign from the Senate because they feared a Democratic senator would take his place.

Kwame Kilpatrick

Guilty of exchanging 1400 vulgar text messages with another official, the Mayor of Detroit was asked to resign. The pair revealed in the text messages that they had used city funds to arrange romantic getaways and conspired to have Detroit Police Deputy Chief Gary Brown fired. He was indifferent to being exposed, announced that he would not resign from office, and said, “I want to tell you Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback.”