Doesn't this look like a romantic spot?
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."
Do you, or your children, every use public restrooms ?
The officer was a hero. The punishment should be much more severe.
"I thought only Mr. Ed did that?"
Maybe the rancher and Senator thought he was Mr Ed. Looks like he did a fair job anyway, since mare than a few folks see him as the horses ass.
He was standing outside the stall and allegedly looking in from quite a ways back mind you....rather silly accusation.
Not exactly illegal....creepy....but it isn’t exactly illegal. You can’t see in the stall anyway normally.
RollCall.com updated the story. Here’s some new parts:
“...In the statement he released Monday night, Craig said the police were “misconstruing my actions.”
“At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions,” he said. “I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct.”
And although police documents show that Craig returned to the airport 11 days after the incident to inquire about a police contact so “his lawyer can speak to someone,” Craig said Monday night that he decided to enter a guilty plea without consulting a lawyer.
“I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter,” he said. “In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously.”
On Aug. 8, the day he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in the Minnesota court, Craig appeared via satellite at a ceremony that took place in Idaho in which former Idaho federal Judge Randy Smith was invested into his new position as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “”
As I said, He is history....and I will add, he should be. And the democrates who mirror this behavior should also be gone.
That's the sad part about this. I think she'd be devastated.
You are correct.
Sen Craig is a fairly strong ally in the war on the 2nd Amend.
Sure, Senator.
If accused by an officer of solicating homosexual sex in a public bathroom any normal heterosexual married man with children would pleade guilty just to resolve the matter.
Right.
And Vick really loves animals.
Doesn't this look like a romantic spot?
“Craig told no one on his staff or Senate leadership about the arrest until it was made public in Roll Call.”
From an Idaho story
http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/143517.html
“Doesn’t this look like a romantic spot?”
No, it looks like the tawdry, sleazy crime location where the murder of a teddy bear transpired.
Some one else sent me a PM and said it was because he was big in the NRA, so now I'm more confused.
Actually not.
There is at least one more very gay Republican senator, and most probably two.
Whoa, Nellie! Can you imagine looking up and seeing THAT coming at you in the men's room?
Cordially,
There is a problem in all such cases. The only “complainant” and the only “witness” are also the “law enforcement” person and the one making the complaint.
The judicial authorities are left with the course of accepting the reading of the complaint at face value because there is no one, except the defendant, to refute it; and they - the judge - are usually not willing to go against the lone “witness” - the cop. Can a cop make-up such a case? Yes. Have over-zealous cops done it before in exactly this kind of case? Yes. Am I saying there is any “evidence” - one way or the other in this case? No.
And, it does not matter how detailed or empty the complaint reads. If it were presented by one mere civilian against another, it would be thrown out, the “cop” would have arrested no one, because there is nothing to corroborate it or dispute it, factually, in such a “he said, he said” case.
Whether due to some actual fact of ill-motive (solicitation) for actual illegal actions (when those motives are not provable on the slim evidence obtained), or his actual innocence and stupidity in not pleading innocent with the advise of counsel (Craig would not have been convicted), Craig demonstrated a lack of the attributes of good political leadership.
His delay could just as well have been due to embarrassment to present the case to any friendly counsel he was likely to go to, as to any feeling of guilt he did not want to admit to such counsel. Either way, I believe he was foolish.
No time to read all the thread so don’t know if this has already been mentioned. I was just listening to Rusty Humphrey and apparently Craig was involved in something 20 years ago in the Senate along this line.
"Oooth! Are you insulting our gay culture?! You hater!"
Yeah, I agree with almost everything you said about this Craig matter, except that I suppose I may qualify as a homophobe in one sense but not as the term implies. If the Greek term "phobia" means "fear of", and I believe it does, I have never been in fear of any known homosexual who I have met, and I won't be unless one tries to get his HIV infected blood on me. The only thing I fear from that sad and decidedly un-gay community is the anti-Christian political power that their money and celebrity connections give them in every political venue from local city councils and school boards to Washington.
Anyway, have a good evening in spite of this disappointing Craig mess and I'll try to do the same.
Resign for what? Tapping his foot on the floor with some vague “let’s have a gay romp signal” dreamt up in some cop’s mind?
No thinks.
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