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I think if he was really NOT guilty.. I would think that he would have cooperated with the officer.... Thanked him for his service PROFUSELY...... and politely tell him that he had made a mistake.... HOWEVER his argumentative attitude has guilt written all over it....IMHO I have arrested folks that... after further analysis/questioning... I truley did not believe were GUILTY... but the “probable cause” was there at the time and most are VERY coopertive with the process, and understand that I am just doing my job.... An interview with an INNOCENT person does not usually “go down” Iexcuse the pun...) like this, form my personal experience....... a CHARGE, or being QUESTIONED about a POSSIBLE CHARGE... is a far cry from conviction.. a plea of GUILTY IS A CONVICTION.. HANDS DOWN... or should I say.. HANDS “under the stall” !!..

HOWEVER his argumentative attitude has guilt written all over it....

its reassuring that youre exercizing your charge to enforce the written law by using such deductive reasoning (/sarcasm)

I dont know about the rest of the freepers here - but regardless of the charge - If Im wrongly accused - Im going to howl, if only for the reason an injustice (ostensibly based on your gut feeling) has just been perpetrated

Did Craig plead “guilty” or “no contest”? I heard the tape several times yesterday evening, and also the commentary regarding the tape.

I have a problem with the browbeating Sen. Craig got from the police officers, ending with the “suggestion that if the senator would just plead guilty, all he’d get is a fine, and that would be it”.

Many people have crumbled under the psycological strain of trying to explain their innocence to a cop that’s just doing his/her job.

I don’t know. Something smells a little fishy here.

I listened to the recording yesterday on the radio. I have to say, Craig was evasive and obscure in many of his answers. It was just not credible to me. He sounded like a lawyer trying to get away from admitting exact, legal guilt, instead of, with rightous indignation, denying directly most of the charges. Also...who picks up old nasty toilet paper on the floor of a public restroom? That was incredible that he would say that was his excuse for his hand appearing under the stall.

Anyhow, as a log time resident of Idaho...and having corresponded with Craig's office many times...I must say that at this point, his resignation is best and what I have advocated since this came out.

This will give our conservative Governor a chance to appoint a conservative in Craig's place until the next election.

Craig had already lost a lot of support (including my own) over his stance on immigration and other issues. Many here were going to get behind another conservtive candidate in the primaries in the hopes of ousting him anyway and now the governor can short circuit all of that and make our primary a non-issue by placing that candidate in the positition now, which will ensure he stays there through the election in this very conservative state.

Though is is a shame and a disgraceful end to an otherwise fairly conservative career for the Senator (at leat up until the last four years), and although it has to be very hard and heartbreaking for his family...still, him resigning will be far better than the media circus that would continue and the investigations that would be ceaseless if he tried to hang on.

So, in the end, all in all, given the circumstances...this is by far the best thing.

Yesterday they played Craigs statements over and over. Here’s
what doesn’t make sense to me. His excuse for all the hand gestures, etc. was that he was picking up a piece of toilet tissue off the floor.

WHY? Who picks up toilet paper from the floor of a public restroom? No one, unless they’re nuts.