Posted on 09/04/2007 6:43:58 PM PDT by kinoxi
BOISE, Idaho - Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening. "It's not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign," said Sidney Smith, Craig's spokesman in Idaho's capital.
"We're still preparing as if Senator Craig will resign Sept. 30, but the outcome of the legal case in Minnesota and the ethics investigation will have an impact on whether we're able to stay in the fight - and stay in the Senate."
Craig, a Republican who has represented Idaho in Congress for 27 years, announced Saturday that he intends to resign from the Senate on Sept. 30. But since then, he's hired a prominent lawyer to investigate the possibility of reversing his plea, his spokesman said.
Craig was a no-show Tuesday as Congress reconvened after a summer break and it wasn't clear whether he'll return at all since deciding to resign over his guilty plea in a sex sting this summer at the Minneapolis airport.
Another spokesman, Dan Whiting in Washington, said Tuesday that Craig was expected to spend the week in Idaho as the Senate votes on spending bills for veterans and other programs. Whiting did not rule out Craig's returning to Washington before the end of the month.
A telephone call Craig received last week from Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., urging him to consider fighting for his seat is affecting Craig's decision to reconsider his resignation, Smith said.
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ARLEN SPECTER MUST GO
WTF????!!!!!
So he really didn’t mean to plead guilty, and he really didn’t mean to resign?
Rinse, repeat.
First he regretted signing a plea of guilt, now he's reconsidering resigning.
Yeoowza
Jim Quinn was predicting this on the radio this morning here in Pittsburgh.
NOTE TO SENATOR CRAIG: Get some professional help dude!
please take your pension and go away
This guy Craig is in total denial. Resign NOW!
He said something like he intended to resign - not resign outright - when he made his big announcement. That sounded fishy at the time, so this is no surprise. He needs to really, really resign, no fingers crossed behind his back for luck!
It’s simple... His own personal interests over those of the Nation and the Party. You knew it was coming.
What do the people of Idaho think? Usually, they are such low key people that we never hear from them.
He’s a loon.
I don’t know what they think
He was for resignation before he was against it.
The man is confused and indecisive. He can not decide on his career, legal matters, or his sexuality. For his own sake, that of his constituents, his party, and especially the country, he should resign and never seek public office again.
Maybe he should wait to see what William Jefferson does.
I guess that trolling in toilets for oral or anal homosexual encounters is not as good in Idaho as traveling elsewhere and in DC? There, I have gone and nauseated myself. Bye.
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