You are right, I did not read the court documents. But I did listen to the tape of the interview between the arresting police officer and Senator Craig. THAT tape convinced me Senator Craig was indeed NOT LYING, had done NOTHING out of the ordinary, and was pleading guilty to a lesser charge in order to get on his way. The lesser charge from what I read associated with that audio tape was “disorderly conduct”. Are you saying that is not the case?
He went to court to get that guilty plea overturned. It didn’t happen. I do not know who that judge is or anything about him. But if he is a liberal appointee....well I just don’t put a lot of stock in lower court rulings when it is a political “target” who is before that judge. Do you know anything about the judge? I honestly do not.
But I do know what I heard on that tape. It was obvious that officer was not listening to what Senator Craig was saying. I’ll have to go find that transcript again. THAT TAPE convinced me Senator Craig was totally innocent and had nothing illicit or perverted going on except using the bathroom as it was intended to be used.
That does not mean bathrooms or THAT bathrrom is not the location of such solicitations AND actions on those solicitations. Right there in the bathroom. I know of such activities from other public bathroom reports locally here.
It makes me sick. It is horrible and a reason no child should be allowed to go into a public bathroom alone.....but that’s not the point.
The point is that Senator Craig did absolutely NOTHING suspicious or unusual....but that his actions were MADE to seem unusual by that officer.
Yes he promised to step down if the court ruled against him and he has not done that. I AM GLAD HE HAS NOT. Realize I am in the minority but again, if any man I knew or respected had done exactly what Senator Craig has done —— despite his mistake of pleading guilty to the lesser charge in order to get on his way.....yet was innocent, could not possibly have done what he was accused of doing by that officer.....and certainly will NEVER have these latest accusations PROVEN because they are total lies.....I would want that man to NOT SURRENDER their career, I don’t care what career it was.
I just do not like INNOCENT PEOPLE being punished for something they did NOT do nor could they possibly do.
If he surrenders to the people targeting him, HE IS SAYING DO THIS TO ME AND THEN DO THIS TO THE NEXT SENATOR WHO HAS THE AUDACITY TO STAND STAUNCHLY PRO LIFE AND PRO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY (WHICH MEANS ANTI - HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA).
If you are correct that a conservative Republican Senator would be able to replace Senator Craig immediately in the Senate....it would be very soon that this new Senator would become a TARGET just like Senator Craig is.
Who knows if that new “target” could withstand the immense pressures that would come upon him to vote as Senator Craig has voted and will vote - re: prolife, profamily???
It is time for a conservative Republican Senator like Senator Craig to stand up - just as he has done - and say - forget about it you lib nazi’s.....I am not going anywhere because I have never done and I will never do bathroom solicitations for gay sex or any kind of sex. I have never and will never have any kind of encounter with gay men or solicit for gay sex in any way shape or form.....and I am not going to be driven out of my career which not only serves the people of Idaho but also the people of America by trumped up bogus accusations.
There is so much you don’t know about. The judge was not a liberal appointee. He was a good conservative judge.
I think he would have had pity on Larry if he had not been so obviously lying. Larry Craig has no explanation for his behavior. It certainly was not the behavior of an innocent man. It is hard for a judge to overturn a signed admission of guilt without a compelling reason.
I read all the court documents, I read the transcript and I listened to the tape. Based on all that evidence, I can say Larry Craig was certainly guilty of alarming behavior and his actions did not belong in a bathroom. To believe Larry Craig, you have to believe that the entire world is lying about him and is out to get him, not just the democrats, but conservatives, police, judges, and any reasonable and logical person. They must all be trying to make him look bad.
You have decided to declare his innocence based solely on listening to a tape. That’s an emotional decision and I understand it. I don’t agree with it, but to each his own.