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Statement of Senator Larry Craig
Larry's Wb Site ^ | August 27, 2007 | Larry or

Posted on 08/27/2007 4:44:41 PM PDT by Shermy

Statement of Senator Craig:

BOISE, ID - Idaho Senator Larry Craig made the following statement in response to the Roll Call story this afternoon:

"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions. I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct.

"I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: 110th; banglist; blackmail; congress; corruption; craig; cultureofcorruption; govwatch; homosexualagenda; larrycraig; publicsex; republican; resign; ussenate
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That's all of it.
1 posted on 08/27/2007 4:44:41 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
It doesn’t look good. I’d never plead guilty to a crime I didn’t commit.
2 posted on 08/27/2007 4:47:04 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Democrats have plenty of patience for anti-American dictators but none for Iraqi democrats.)
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To: Shermy

” I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously.”

Yeah, that’s why you were busted!


3 posted on 08/27/2007 4:48:58 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Craig said he and Rep. Barney Frank(D) were just playing doctor.......


4 posted on 08/27/2007 4:49:25 PM PDT by navysealdad
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To: Shermy
According to the earlier thread...

Senator Craig Arrested, Pleads Guilty Following Incident in Airport Restroom

Craig’s arrest occurred just after noon on June 11 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. On Aug. 8, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the Hennepin County District Court. He paid more than $500 in fines and fees, and a 10-day jail sentence was stayed. He also was given one year of probation with the court that began on Aug. 8.

So for two months he didn't have a lawyer? In a town not in Idaho?

5 posted on 08/27/2007 4:49:33 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: elhombrelibre
It doesn’t look good.

Right. IMO, he blew it.

6 posted on 08/27/2007 4:51:09 PM PDT by jammer
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To: Shermy

He’s a queer... It was clear that somebody had SOMETHING on him, by the way he has been disregarding his constituents and voting with the dems... I’m speaking specifically of his immigration vote.


7 posted on 08/27/2007 4:51:41 PM PDT by babygene (Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
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To: Shermy

Hhhmmm..

After reading the account as written by the arresting officer- it’s not looking too good for Craig.

Why would an innocent man plead guilty?

Even if what he says is TRUE- it shows extraordinary lack of clear thinking and judgment to plead guilty if in fact he’s innocent.

What a mess.


8 posted on 08/27/2007 4:52:08 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet -Fred'08)
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To: elhombrelibre

I don’t believe a word of it. He got caught and pled guilty. Now he’s trying to cover that fact over for political expediency. I would say, “Stuff it, Larry”, but he’d probably like that idea.


9 posted on 08/27/2007 4:52:30 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Shermy

Looks like Hildabeast and her minions have pretty good info on people. The ‘pubs will be lucky to have 40 seats in the Senate after 2008.


10 posted on 08/27/2007 4:52:36 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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To: Shermy
I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct.

Near as I can tell from the story the most improper thing he actually did was to make contact with the foot of the undercover officer with his own between the stalls. That isn't illegal...but it isn't exactly innocent either.

11 posted on 08/27/2007 4:52:49 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Shermy

The GOP needs to clean it’s house of perverts and sodomites.


12 posted on 08/27/2007 4:53:09 PM PDT by Popman (Nothing + Time + Chance = The Universe ---------------------Bridge in Brooklyn for sell - Cheap)
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To: Shermy

Oh, please. He got caught. He pled to a courtesy, non-descript charge in the hopes that it would stay quiet and go away. It didn’t. It is what it is, and he can’t spin his way out of it at this point.

The man is a round-mouth.


13 posted on 08/27/2007 4:53:27 PM PDT by surely_you_jest (I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
That's it, Larry boy, drag out the obvious.
14 posted on 08/27/2007 4:53:27 PM PDT by CT
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To: Shermy
I agree. This looks very bad, indeed. He can use all the excuses that he wants, but I doubt that he will convince many that he was “innocent.” I hope that he does the right thing for the GOP and decides not to run again for the senate. He is political toast. Unlike the Dems, Republicans care about sexual ethics.
15 posted on 08/27/2007 4:53:36 PM PDT by Ferox
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To: jammer

Well, he tried to.


16 posted on 08/27/2007 4:54:11 PM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: elhombrelibre
Craig is not stupid. Expeditious? Expeditious?? The only thing he expedited was his eminent exit from the senate. And the self destruction of the republican reelection effort.

These are the long knives. The Republicans need to pull out the long knives and do some exposes' on some of the democrats' sordid misbehavior.

17 posted on 08/27/2007 4:54:51 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: jammer
"Right. IMO, he blew it."

I think he was arrested before that.

18 posted on 08/27/2007 4:55:25 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: babygene

“somebody had SOMETHING on him”
I try not to be too much of a tinfoil hat guy, but I agree with you.


19 posted on 08/27/2007 4:56:12 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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To: SE Mom

“Even if what he says is TRUE- it shows extraordinary lack of clear thinking and judgment to plead guilty if in fact he’s innocent.”

Absolutely. I don’t care if someone is gay, I care if they are a U S congressman and committing crimes, especially those they can be blackmailed to the denigration of our interests. At least he wasn’t text-messaging porn from the congress floor like that fellow from Florida!

And to top it off he pleads “guilty” when his is not...and didn’t see a lawyer? A person of his stature?

That seems too wild to believe, but there is a hubris to him evident in this very story. When he whipped out his senate card to the leo and said “What do you think about that?”

The reason I had any interest in this guy at all is I saw a snobby, dismissive attitude in him on his open borders position.


20 posted on 08/27/2007 4:58:33 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy

Looking for love in all the wrong places...


21 posted on 08/27/2007 4:59:13 PM PDT by tubebender (My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
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To: dynachrome

I cannot comment, because, if I had been in the cop’s place I could have experienced it without giving it a thought. yhay makes me naive, I guess. Thank God.


22 posted on 08/27/2007 5:00:11 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Shermy
Time for old Lar to go.
23 posted on 08/27/2007 5:00:47 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Texas Songwriter

He should resign.


24 posted on 08/27/2007 5:00:52 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Democrats have plenty of patience for anti-American dictators but none for Iraqi democrats.)
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To: spunkets

You just HAD to go there, didn’t you??
;-)


25 posted on 08/27/2007 5:01:04 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
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To: Shermy
When is the LAST time a Republican just didn't roll over and play dead when accused of a crime?

The Senator's ONLY [HUGE] problem is that he PLEAD GUILTY before growing a set!

Actual guilt is a moot point now!!

26 posted on 08/27/2007 5:01:17 PM PDT by PISANO (There is NO security & there can be none as long as there are suicide bombers!!)
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To: Shermy
I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously.

He should know by now that that is not possible for someone in his position.

-PJ

27 posted on 08/27/2007 5:01:38 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: Shermy

No comment.

It is up to the people of that state to correct the issue.

I have stopped giving any fund to national political parties (NRCC, NSRC, etc.

I only now give to a specific congressman or his P.A.C..


28 posted on 08/27/2007 5:03:02 PM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: jammer

At least he tried to.


29 posted on 08/27/2007 5:03:06 PM PDT by kenth
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To: Shermy
He DID plead guilty. Now its time for him to do the honorable thing - RESIGN HIS SEAT!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

30 posted on 08/27/2007 5:04:39 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: babygene

Didn’t President Bush support the Democrats (and other Republicans besides Craig?).

As to him being gay or not, I could care less.


31 posted on 08/27/2007 5:05:55 PM PDT by merry10 (RUDY 2008)
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To: edcoil

Wasn’t this the guy who called a press conference a few years ago to deny he was gay, when no one had publicly claimed that he was? I found that bizarre at the time. I don’t care what he is, as long as he keeps it to himself and doesn’t violate the law, which is apparently what he just did.


32 posted on 08/27/2007 5:06:30 PM PDT by laconic (ence)
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To: ClaireSolt
"if I had been in the cop’s place I could have experienced it without giving it a thought."

Being a men's restroom and all, I think'd you'd have given some thought to the experience. I also think there'd be less subtlty than the tapping of feet.

33 posted on 08/27/2007 5:06:37 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: dynachrome

true, but this happened in june! not 10 yrs ago(although it may
have happened then, too.) the dems have been warning the repubs
about this. after foley and haggard, i can’t imagine why craig would
continue with such behavior.

wife o’buckhead


34 posted on 08/27/2007 5:06:38 PM PDT by Buckhead (making the comments buckhead won't make.)
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To: Texas Songwriter
The Republicans need to pull out the long knives and do some exposes' on some of the democrats' sordid misbehavior.

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As long as this kind of public frolicking is okay with the Demokratz the Pubbies can save their energy.

35 posted on 08/27/2007 5:09:33 PM PDT by RoadKingSE
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To: Buckhead

Actually, I forgot about good ‘ol Larry Flynt who has been after stuff on ‘pubs, like this.
Could have been him. scum.


36 posted on 08/27/2007 5:10:26 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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To: elhombrelibre

BIG DITTO.


37 posted on 08/27/2007 5:10:53 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Shermy
"I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."

Certainly not leadership material.

38 posted on 08/27/2007 5:14:24 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
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To: Shermy
After Larry's vote for Jorge's Shamnesty, I concluded that we needed new blood in Idaho.

Now,I am certain.

39 posted on 08/27/2007 5:14:43 PM PDT by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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To: Shermy
"...In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty..."

Too late now, you are toast. Resign!

40 posted on 08/27/2007 5:16:15 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Cindy

Even Craig’s Wikipedia entry has a part about him being gay going back to last October. Whenever famous people engage in homosexual acts, the behavior will be outted.
The sad thing is that Craig has a wife, three adopted kids and 19 Grandchildren.


41 posted on 08/27/2007 5:16:50 PM PDT by jamese777
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To: Shermy

LOL! So now he’s saying he lied to the judge.
Stick a fork in him.


42 posted on 08/27/2007 5:17:38 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Through the night with a light from above ...)
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To: Shermy

I think this is another Democrat setup. Anyone who says anything against gays nowadays is persecuted.


43 posted on 08/27/2007 5:18:27 PM PDT by Limbaugh is God
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To: Popman

Exactly.

Rove said in an interview last week that his “biggest error was in not working soon enough to replace Republicans tainted by scandal”.

I hope they oust every last scandal-tainted Republican ASAP, and then go on the attack against corrupt Democrats in the Summer and early Fall of 2008...starting with Ms. Corruption herself...Hillary Clinton.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118697458949295744.html


44 posted on 08/27/2007 5:19:24 PM PDT by bw17
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To: Shermy
"In hindsight,... I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."

Sorry Senator. If that was the case, you wouldn't be in the predickiment right now. LOL!

45 posted on 08/27/2007 5:21:15 PM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Limbaugh is God

“I think this is another Democrat setup.”

Nah, I think more likely the GOP bigwigs eventually knew about it and figured it will come out any way, dump it today under the flash of the Gonzales stories.


46 posted on 08/27/2007 5:21:21 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Liberty Valance
What kind of man doesn't get attorney when he's arrested for a crime? Answer: a United States Senator.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

47 posted on 08/27/2007 5:22:39 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

I disagree. CRAIG SHOULD CHANGE PARTIES and ask for forgiveness!

Let’s see what happens!


48 posted on 08/27/2007 5:23:20 PM PDT by Loud Mime (The Democrats don't like Hispanics firing white people...Gonzales had to go!)
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To: Buckhead
Somebody asked me to remember your name in the rathergate thing, I did, they pinged you about an hour ago, I wondered why, and here you are.

Long time no see! :)

49 posted on 08/27/2007 5:24:13 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Shermy
Good. Let’s get rid of this guy, and all the others that need to go. Mark Foley couldn’t have done more damage if he had been Hillary’s illegitimate son. Get the weak sisters out now, and build a strong force to be reckoned with come Nov. 2008!
50 posted on 08/27/2007 5:26:33 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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