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Title: Idaho Sen. Craig to resign
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Sacramento Bee
URL Source: http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/354718.html
Published: Aug 31, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-08-31 18:50:24 by farmfriend
Keywords: Sen. Craig
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Comments: 12
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will announce Saturday he will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men33;s room, Republican officials said Friday. Dan Whiting, Craig's spokesman, said the senator would hold a news conference in Boise Saturday. Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter already appears to have settled on a successor: Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, according to several Republicans familiar with internal deliberations. Craig has been out of public view since Tuesday, but Republican sources in Idaho said he spent Friday making calls to top party officials, including the governor, gauging their support. There has been virtually none publicly. Asked Friday at the White House if the senator should resign, President Bush said nothing and walked off stage. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct on Aug. 1, and while he has since said he did nothing wrong, the episode has roiled the Republican Party and produced numerous calls for him to step down. Republican officeholders and party leaders maintained a steady drumbeat of actions and words aimed at convincing Craig to vacate his Senate seat. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Craig's conduct "unforgivable" and acknowledged that many in the rank and file believe Craig should resign. An aide said Friday that McConnell has not talked with Craig since Wednesday, when GOP leaders asked him to step down from his senior positions on Senate committees. He complied with the request, made just one day after they called for an investigation of Craig's actions by the Senate Ethics Committee. "I am not gay. I never have been gay," Craig said at a Boise news conference Tuesday, the last time he has been seen in public. He denied wrongdoing and said his only mistake was pleading guilty to a reduce misdemeanor charge. Republican officeholders and party leaders want Craig to give up his seat in the Senate as soon as possible. Their preference, according to several officials, is for a successor to be selected and ready to take the oath of office when the Senate returns from its summer vacation next week. Republican Party officials said a statement had been drafted at GOP headquarters calling for Craig to resign. It was not issued, these officials said, in response to concerns that it might complicate quiet efforts under way to persuade Craig to give up his seat. Republicans, worried about the scandal's effect on next year's election, suffered a further setback Friday when veteran Virginia Sen. John Warner announced he will retire rather than seek a sixth term. Democrats captured Virginia's other Senate seat from the GOP in the 2006 election and have sought to line up former Gov. Mark Warner to run if the seat became open.
Idaho Sen. Craig to resign
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
1. If he'd have claimed ignorance, he'd probably have survived. 2. With so many having done so much worse, I suspect the queer mafia nailed him, for his opposition favorable to the queers.
Time to gin up a conspiracy theory. What was Craig working on that might have made him unpopular? Here's the thing about Minneapolis. It's chocked full of gay people. It's also full of flaming fucking liberal morons too. It's not a stretch to think that this was a means to get rid of another GOP moron, with minimal effort. All these people have something to hide. Every politician has a skeleton or two in their proverbial closet, and THAT is how you know this guy did something very unpopular with the people who control him. You see, you have to look at our government as a corporation. When someone is doing exactly what they're supposed to, there's no reason to get rid of them. When Craig got busted, and of course, there was that three month layover from arrest to public humiliation, he probably still had a means to correct his behavior. What was it that Craig did, or wouldn't do, that got him in the position he has been put in? Maybe that stock deal that just went down recently that's going to make big profits when the next terror attack happens? Maybe he knows something, or was going to tell on someone, that got him this humiliation? Or maybe he's just an old boomer who just came out of the closet in a bad way. Regardless, the timing is the funny thing, and the fact that it seems that all these GOP'ers are turning out to be perverts and deviants is telling of a liberal strategy to draw attention away from Hillary Clinton's Chinese Money Laundering Business.
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
Because unseating a US Senator is darn near impossible I'm so happy I can't talk every time one bites the dust! As I've said before, if they ever perfect that "brain in a jar" thing (like the old B movie THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN) then the whole senate will be filled with jars on the desks, and they'll never leave! If our senior senator from DE Bill Roth (of ROTH IRA infamy) hadn't gotten dizzy and fallen three times during the last few weeks of the campaign (twice before cameras) he'd have probably been reelected, and he was about 110 then. Geez.... "I'm gonna get dat wascal wabbit, if it's the wast thing I ever do!"__E. Fudd
Would it be correct to say that Senator Larry Craig is offering his seat to another member of the Idaho Republican establishment?
Bunch of internet bums ... grand jury --- opium den ! ~ byeltsin
Possible Jesuit Transjuctionalist....Black Mamba Watch I assume that after Senator Craig offers his seat, and after the offer is accepted, Senator Craig will step down and assume a subordinate position. At least that's how I was told it normally works.
Bunch of internet bums ... grand jury --- opium den ! ~ byeltsin
Craig was pro -shamnesty - maybe some folks in the GOP or maybe in the state of Idaho did not appreciate his stand on this issue?
Snickering.
Now that is very curious. I wonder if tomorrow at Craig's press conference he will say, "I am not gay! I just have a wide stance when sitting on the toilet, and my feet get all jumpy!". I think this story is a scream!
Craig was one of the very conservative senators who supported the filibuster of the renewal of the PATRIOT Act a couple of years ago. Together with Democrats, they blocked passage of the renewal until after the Christmas recess, at which point a compromise was reached that could get through the Senate.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
"I am not gay. I never have been gay...I don't have the lisp and the swish, I'm not a hairdresser or an interior decorator, so I'm not gay even if I like to have sex with boys."
"Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile."
Now that is very curious. There has to be much more to the story. At this point, letting any Republican get fed to the wolves is bizarre.
#2. To: farmfriend (#0)
#3. To: farmfriend (#0)
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#5. To: Minerva (#4)
seat to another member of the Idaho Republican establishment?
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#6. To: Eoghan (#5)
#7. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
What was Craig working on that might have made him unpopular?
#8. To: Minerva (#4)
Would it be correct to say that Senator Larry Craig is offering his seat to another member of the Idaho Republican establishment?
"every time government grows it is at the expense of personal liberty" - Ron Paul
#9. To: farmfriend, SKYDRIFTER, Red Jones, tom007, Indrid Cold, YertleTurtle, christine (#0)
Asked Friday at the White House if the senator should resign, President Bush said nothing and walked off stage.
#10. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
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#12. To: Diana, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Robin, Aristeides, Red Jones, Kamala, All (#9)
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