Sen. Craig: I Was Wrong To Keep This Quiet
Idaho Republican Insists He Did No Wrong, And, Is Not Gay; Ethics Panel Asked To Investigate
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Idaho Sen. Larry Craig told a news conference that he shouldn't have pleaded guilty to charges of public lewdness and denied again that he is gay. Sharyl Attkisson reports.
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Sharyl Attkisson previews tonight's "Evening News" story on Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, who is trying to clear his name after pleading guilty earlier this month to charges of lewd conduct.
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Idaho's Republican Senator Larry Craig speaks to the media on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007, in Boise, Idaho. (AP)
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Sen. Larry Craig, a three-term Republican who has represented Idaho in Congress for more than a quarter-century, is up for re-election next year. He has not said if he will run for a fourth term in 2008 and was expected to announce his plans this fall. (AP)
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Photos released by the Metropolitan Airports Commission Police Department show Sen. Larry Craig, R-ID., taken at the time of his arrest June 11, 2007 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. (AP/via M. A. C Police Department)
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Minutes later, the officer saw Craig gazing into his stall through the crack between the stall door and the frame, fidgeted with his fingers and returned to gazing through the stall for about another two minutes.
After a man in the adjacent stall left, Craig entered it and put his roller bag against the front of the stall door, "which Sgt. Karsnia's experience has indicated is used to attempt to conceal sexual conduct by blocking the view from the front of the stall," said the complaint, which was dated June 25.
The complaint said Craig then tapped his right foot several times and moved it closer to Karsnia's stall and then moved it into the area of the officer's stall to where it touched Karsnia's foot. Karsnia recognized that "as a signal often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct," the complaint said.
Craig then passed his left hand under the stall divider into Karsnia's stall with his palms up and guided it along the divider toward the front of the stall three times, the complaint said.
The officer then showed his police identification under the divider and pointed toward the exit "at which time the defendant exclaimed `No!"' the complaint said.
The Aug. 8 police report says that Craig later handed the arresting officer a business card that identified him as a member of the Senate.
"What do you think about that?" Craig is alleged to have said, according to the report.
Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper first reported the arrest and guilty plea.
Craig joins other GOP senators facing ethical and legal troubles.
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is under scrutiny for his relationship with a contractor who helped oversee a renovation project that more than doubled the size of the senator's home.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., acknowledged that his phone number appeared in records of a Washington-area business that prosecutors have said was a front for prostitution.
Other GOP members under a cloud of FBI investigations are Arizona Congressmen Rick Renzi, California's John Doolittle, and Alaska's Don Young, reports Attkisson.
The Republican brand at the moment is very weak," Stu Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report told Attkisson. "What this does is add to the buzz about Republicans and what do Republicans believe and are Republicans hypocrites."
Craig, a rancher and a member of the National Rifle Association, lives in Eagle, Idaho, near the capital of Boise. He was a member of the House for 10 years before winning election to the Senate in 1990. He was re-elected in 1996 and 2002.
Last fall, Craig called allegations from a gay-rights activist that he's had homosexual relationships "completely ridiculous."
Mike Rogers, who bills himself as a gay activist blogger, published the allegations on his Web site, www.blogactive.com, in October 2006.
The Idaho Statesman, citing an anonymous source, reported Monday night that a man with close ties to Republican officials said he had a sexual encounter with Craig in the men's room of Washington's Union Station, a few blocks from the Capitol. Craig denied the incident in a May interview with the newspaper, and no arrests were made.
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See all 889 Comments'' ... putting women in mens armys did not turn men into gardenets, it turned women into rapists of husbands and children ... putting children into armys does not turn women and men into gardenets, it turns children into parent rapists ... if men are to treat children with respect, then men are to start acting like children ... and are to start treating two year olds like two year olds ... ''
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You mean other than Senator Craig himself pleading guilty to the charges? Seriously, who in their right mind would plead guilty to this in hopes that (as Senator Craig put it) "it would go away"?
godsays wrote: It is amazing how the liberal Democrats are vilifying Senator Craig...."
Right, McCain, Coleman and Hoekstra and the White House have all denounced the Senator, and all good liberal democrats....
There is no proof that Senator Craig did anything wrong whatsoever.
It is amazing how the liberal Democrats are vilifying Senator Craig for something most of them do everyday."
Posted by godsays at 01:28 PM : Aug 29, 2007
Let''s see, Senator Craig''s "liberal Democratic moment", something that liberal Democrats "do everyday", but of which there is no proof that Senator Craig did anything wrong whatsover?
Are these lying heathens so buried in their own filthy hypocritic waste, to think their thoroughly assine efforts to try and deceive through bizarre and ridiculous denial is actually showing any respect to God as their witness?
There is no proof that Senator Craig did anything wrong whatsoever.
It is amazing how the liberal Democrats are vilifying Senator Craig for something most of them do everyday.
Posted by IOWEIGN at 11:46 AM : Aug 29, 2007
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So YOU think its alright to call everyone who you do not agree with "liberal''s", throw mud at them because they don''t want to change the Constitution to be against *** and find out what this guy did? What in the world does the phrase "Family Values" mean to nazi''s anyway? You people are as phoney as a 2 dollar bill!! Sieg Heil Bush!!
Posted by finalmessiah at 12:00 PM : Aug 29, 2007
He was acting like some sort of prevert and he viloated our right to privacy, yours and mine, when we go to a public bathroom. You do not understand my rights to use the bathroom without toe tapping? ROLFLMAO This piece of Nazi Trash, have you EVER listened to him when he gets on his soap box? I still remember what he did and said about Clinton and I hope the Hypocrite roast in H-E-L-L. When the person casting the stone is as guilty as the one recieving the stoning, justice isn''t done. Sieg Heil Bush!!
Posted by glossypan
So you''re ok with your senator peering into your stall, seats himself in the stall next to you and makes sexual advances to you while you''re trying to take a krap in a public restroom in an airport?
Sick.
hehehe, weren''''t you the one trying to take us off this Larry topic. lmao....
Hehehehe, weren''t you all doing the same thing?
Posted by finalmessiah at 12:00 PM : Aug 29, 2007
Umm, only got busted in a ***-sting in a Minnesota airport bathroom, attempting to solicit gay *** from an undercover cop. Other than that, nothing really.
Do you want me to show you all the corruption from the right wingers the list is way bigger than the dem side???????/
Posted by rharrin1 at 10:54 AM : Aug 29, 2007
I like to think of myself as an Independent but lately have voted (D). I think everyone should stop a think for a moment - corruption and illegal behaviour IS party blind - Just because someone is an ***, don''t rush out and prove you can be one too !!
Posted by roger_inkart at 11:18 AM : Aug 29, 2007
I''m hoping, but Bush and his Cronnies will and can still steal votes like before. America is coming to their senses but is it too late. With everything that''s been happening I just feel it''s a little to late, the right will just keep stealing votes to be in office
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