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Craig keeps promise to retire
The Hill ^ | 03/21/08 | Jeffrey Young

Posted on 03/21/2008 7:08:20 PM PDT by kingattax

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), encumbered by a scandal since last summer, did not file for reelection by his state’s deadline Friday, keeping a promise he made and officially marking the end of his congressional career.

Craig’s political future has been in doubt since his arrest and guilty plea on disorderly conduct charges filed after an incident in a men’s restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last June.

The three-term senator, who previously served five terms in the House, denied the charges that he solicited sex from an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation to crack down on alleged gay sexual liaisons in the airport’s bathrooms. Craig said he pleaded guilty in hopes of quelling a scandal, a decision he said he regretted.

The passing of Friday’s 5:00 p.m. deadline brings to a close a career in elected office that began with Craig’s election to the Idaho state Senate in 1974 and all but clears the way for Idaho Lt. Gov. Jim Risch (R) to take his seat next year in the strongly Republican state where President Bush defeated Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) 68 percent to 30 percent in the last presidential contest.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: 110th; craig; id2008; larrycraig; retirement; risch; widestance
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1 posted on 03/21/2008 7:08:20 PM PDT by kingattax
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Larry Craig

May he enjoy his retirement!

2 posted on 03/21/2008 7:10:28 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: kingattax

More like the polls were not in his favor.


3 posted on 03/21/2008 7:12:00 PM PDT by donna (McCain answers the red phone: "Hola!")
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4 posted on 03/21/2008 7:12:38 PM PDT by indcons (Please FREEPMAIL indcons if you want on or off the "Military History (MilHist)" ping list.)
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To: kingattax
Senator Craig's usefulness to the citizens of Idaho and America ceased by supporting the amnesty bill. He wouldn't have won the Idaho primary, much less the general election if he had chosen to run again.
5 posted on 03/21/2008 7:13:23 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: kingattax

Now he can “tap” his foot without public scrutiny. ;-)


6 posted on 03/21/2008 7:13:31 PM PDT by doc1019 (God is in control ... not Global Warming.)
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To: kingattax

Eliot Spitzer’s looking for a job.


7 posted on 03/21/2008 7:13:51 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: missnry

I can’t say what I’m thinking because I’ll be banned for life. Think your worst thought about the issue and Larry Craig... that’s what my reaction is.
Happy Easter all.


8 posted on 03/21/2008 7:15:15 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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I can’t say whay I think either. But he will be free to run for office as a DemocRAT. He would be their hero.


9 posted on 03/21/2008 7:22:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber ("Bullfighting, Mountain Climbing and Auto-Racing are the only real sports.)
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To: kingattax

I’d have more respect for him (not that it would be much) if he had just resigned instead of dragging this out and embarassing himself, his state and his party.


10 posted on 03/21/2008 7:25:39 PM PDT by SlapHappyPappy
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To: kingattax

Don’t let the (stall) door hit your *ss on the way out.


11 posted on 03/21/2008 7:27:55 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: kingattax

Now he can cohabitate with McGreevy.


13 posted on 03/21/2008 7:50:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Chief Engineer; Delphinium; EternalVigilance; Keyes2000mt; Sir_Ed; Knitting A Conundrum; ...
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FReepmail GOP_Raider to be on or off this list

14 posted on 03/21/2008 7:55:22 PM PDT by GOP_Raider ("Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man" -Nietzsche)
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Rex Rammell quit the Republican primary and is running as an independent. Clearly, Jim Risch will be the next U.S. Senator.


15 posted on 03/21/2008 8:08:12 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Those in the national Republican leadership do the work of three men- Moe, Larry, and Curly.)
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Craig keeps promise to retire

"When I die, suckers!!!!"

16 posted on 03/21/2008 8:22:54 PM PDT by jdm (The best $2 Chinese Food: http://www.vipfoods.com/images/Products/bourbonstreetchicken.jpg)
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Yes, much to the chagrin of my grandfather who says he knew Risch back in the day-—grandpa was pretty active in the Idaho State Bowhunters in his young(er) days. At least Rex will have our family’s elder statesman’s vote...:)


17 posted on 03/21/2008 8:31:00 PM PDT by GOP_Raider ("Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man" -Nietzsche)
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To: kingattax
Probably the last time I get to use this.

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18 posted on 03/21/2008 9:09:31 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Risch would have had my support if he hadn’t campaigned for Mitt Romney, the most liberal Governor in the history of the republic.


19 posted on 03/21/2008 9:19:21 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good president." - John McCain)
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To: kingattax
What about the DEMOCRAT with the $100K in his freezer? Has he resigned yet?
20 posted on 03/21/2008 9:42:32 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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