[Vision2020] Craig still making headlines
Scott Dredge
sdredge at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 28 20:08:54 PDT 2007
Yeah, yeah. He's also not taking any questions. Easy enough for him to deny forcefully he's not gay. Technically he may be telling the truth. Is he also not a bisexual, not a lesbian, not a transgender, and not anything else that fundamentalist conservatives abhor? Not that it would much matter to me if he was, but in puritan Idaho it would sink his political career even though he's been a very capable senator.
-Scott
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The latest Roll Call at 6:15 PM has his apology
with the reaffirmation that he is not homosexual. He has hired a lawyer
and will not be discussing plans for re-election until next month.
Says he wants to keep doing good things for Idaho.
Sue
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From:
Mark
Solomon
To: Sue Hovey ; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:38
PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Craig still
making headlines
Given the recent events, the only question is when the Statesman will run
Popkey's reports. I'd guess that they will wait to see if Craig "retires to
spend time with his family" (as all good Republicans seem to be doing these
days). If he does, then maybe they won't run the series. That's his only out,
and he'd have to make the announcement very soon before they decide to run
Popkey's stuff.
m.
At 4:30 PM -0700 8/28/07, Sue Hovey wrote:
Today during an interview on
NPR Dan Popkey stated there have been allegations from as far back as when
he was in college, along with others, one a "credible" witness, but when
Craig denied everything they decided not to run it.
SH
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From: Mark
Solomon
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Craig still making
headlines
From the lead story section of the NYTimes on-line
edition.
m.
Idaho Senator Says He Did Nothing
Wrong
By DAVID STOUT and CARL
HULSE
Published: August 28, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 - Senator Larry
Craig said today that he regretted his guilty plea in connection with an
airport bathroom incident, and he accused an Idaho newspaper of hounding
him mercilessly in recent months.
"I am not gay, I never have been
gay," Mr. Craig, an Idaho Republican, declared at a brief appearance in
Boise with his wife, Suzanne Craig, at his side.
Mr. Craig, 62,
apologized for "the cloud placed over Idaho" by his arrest and guilty plea
to a misdemeanor charge. But his deepest regret, he said, is that he
pleaded guilty when he had done nothing wrong.
The senator said he
had chosen to plead guilty without consulting a lawyer, and before telling
his family, in the hope that the incident would just "go away"
somehow.
"That was a mistake, and I deeply regret it," he
said.
Now, he said, he has retained counsel to decide what to do
next. Mr. Craig said he would announce soon whether he will seek a fourth
term next year.
Meanwhile, the Senate Republican leadership sought
to quarantine the possible political damage arising from Mr. Craig's
troubles, calling the incident "a serious matter" and recommending that
the Senate Ethics Committee review the affair.
"In the meantime,
leadership is examining other aspects of the case to determine if
additional action is required," said the statement issued by Senators
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader; Trent Lott of
Mississippi, the assistant leader; Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican
conference leader; Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, the policy committee
chairwoman, and John Ensign of Nevada, chairman of the party's Senate
campaign committee.
Mr. Craig said today that he and his family had
been "relentlessly and viciously harassed" for months by The Idaho
Statesman, a daily newspaper based in Boise, which has been pursuing
rumors about his personal life. He said the stress created by the
newspaper's efforts "and the rumors it has fueled all around Idaho" had
clouded his judgment.
Otherwise, he offered no detailed explanation
today for the embarrassing events that began with his arrest in June by an
undercover police officer in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport. On Aug. 8, Mr. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly
conduct. A second charge against Mr. Craig, interference with privacy, was
dismissed. He was given a 10-day jail sentence that was suspended; was
fined more than $500; and was placed on unsupervised probation for one
year.
According to a police report obtained by Roll Call, the
Capitol Hill newspaper that disclosed the episode and the guilty plea on
Monday, a plainclothes police officer who was investigating complaints of
sexual activity in the airport bathroom arrested the senator on June 11
after what the officer described as sexual advances made by Mr. Craig from
an adjoining stall.
After his arrest, the senator
denied any sexual intent. He said in a statement issued Monday afternoon
that the whole matter came down to a misunderstanding, and that the police
were "misconstruing my actions." In 2006, Mr. Craig publicly rejected
allegations by a gay rights advocate that he had engaged in a homosexual
behavior, calling the claims "completely ridiculous."
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