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Boulanger: “I Work To Support My Wife’s Christian Louboutin Addiction”

You may not have known this, but before former Team Abramoff lobbyist Todd Boulanger got indicted for bribing government aides, he was something of a fashion icon — at least for the staid city he lived in.

In October 2006, he appeared in Washingtonian magazine’s “Men with Style” package. Some gems:

How would you describe your style? Savile Row meets Thrasher magazine.

Favorite labels? Duncan Quinn, Paul Smith, Theory, John Varvatos, and Ralph Lauren. But nothing beats a custom suit.

Biggest splurge? It probably wasn’t for me—I work to support my wife’s Christian Louboutin addiction.

There are a lot of places we could go here, snark-wise. Better to leave it, maybe.

Still, given Boulanger’s apparent love of fine fashion, we couldn’t help noticing the fact that, during his once-thriving career as a Republican talking-head on cable TV, he once opined: “Barack Obama is a total diva.”

It’s in this Daily Show segment (Boulanger appears at the 3:15 mark), which fingers Boulanger as one of the many no-name political pundits who appear above fancy-sounding but meaningless titles like “GOP strategist.”

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