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Deviancy is the offspring of repression.
Idaho Senator Arrested in Airport
By Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer and Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 27, 2007; 7:36 PM
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) pleaded guilty earlier this month to misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges stemming from his June arrest by an undercover police officer in a men's restroom in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, a court spokeswoman and the senator's office said today.
Craig issued a statement confirming the arrest and said that he pleaded guilty to the charge. But he maintained Monday evening that he had not engaged in any "inappropriate conduct" and that the airport police misunderstood his actions.
"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," Craig said. "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."
Craig, who is married and the father of three grown children, is up for re-election in 2008. He did not address his political future.
The story was first reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, which cited a copy of a report by the airport's police division. It said that airport police had been conducting a sting operation inside that men's room because of complaints of sexual activity there.
According to the police report, the undercover officer set up his position in the restroom at noon on June 11. A few minutes later, Craig entered and sat in the stall next to him. Craig began tapping his right foot, touched his right foot to the left foot of the officer in the stall next to him and brushed his hand beneath the par ion into the stall next to him. He was then arrested.
While he was interviewed about the incident, according to the police report, Craig gave police a business card showing he was a United States senator. "What do you think about that?" Craig asked the officer, according to the report obtained by Roll Call.
Airport police declined to comment Monday evening. Nancy Peters, a spokeswoman for the Hennepin County District Court confirmed the charges. Craig paid $500 in fines and was placed on one year's probation, beginning Aug. 8, the date he pleaded guilty. A 10-day jail sentence was stayed.
Staff researcher Madonna Lebling contributed to this report.
Deviancy is the offspring of repression.
Hmmm, I wonder what Mrs. Craig said to Senator Craig when she found out about this? Oh to be a fly on the wall. This dude is up for re-election in '08. Idaho would be a tough place for the Dems to win but then again, neighboring Montana now has two Democratic U.S. Senators and a Democratic Governor.
hanky panky in the men's room. sweet
New Mexico has a Demo Governor and one Demo US Senator. Ditto for Louisiana.
The implosion of the former GOP house of cards majority is just breathtaking to behold. Could these hypocrites be ing themselves any harder?
The moral of the story kids is that democrat polticians convicted of child pornography are better than Christian men who have gay tendencies. Atleast the Child predator was true to his pedoness.
Sincerely,
PixelPusher.
Democrats don't claim to be the party of values. It's funnier when it happens to a member of that self declared party.
Apparently, in addition to gay tendencies, he has moron tendencies, too. I can't believe he handed them his Senate business card. What a ing stooge.
All of that from a simple declarative statement "Deviancy is the offspring of repression". You're such a .
Democrats don't claim to be the party of values. It's funnier when it happens to a member of that self declared party.
Apparently, in addition to gay tendencies, he has moron tendencies, too. I can't believe he handed them his Senate business card. What a ing stooge.
Child pornography is also breaking the law. Are the democrats atleast concious of that.
Idiot.
it's not far fatched to think of you as a partisan asshat.
I'm sorry but since the GOP has beaten the democrats over the head the last few elections about being the party of family values (anti-gay) legislation..the party of moral superiority etc... this is pretty clear that some in the GOP are outright hypocrites...
Some blatant hypocrites?
Absolutely.
It's not like the right on this board haven't bashed the left about Gore's (and other self righteous enviro-fascists') con uous consumption. Turnabout is fair play.
I love this . Republicans are hypocritical. Ok, I'll give you that some republicans are indeed hypocritical. But to act like the stupid, illegal that democrats do is ok because they don't preach against it is just ing re ed.
The problem with liberals is that they complain about everything and celebrate the downfall of mankind.
I never said I agree 100% with what the democrats are doing. I just am amazed that some one the right are blinded by their own hypocrisy..
I'm not a hypocrite.
I also find it kind of funny the way the left gets so damned excited about one of these clowns turning out to be saying one thing, while doing another. Why do they say what they say? Because they want votes; it's not like they are defining the agenda; they are pandering to it!
It doesn't make fewer people believe like they believe when this happens, it probably just make most look a little harder the next time they vote at the candidate; try and get one that is what he (or she) says he is. Ultimately, however, if the freak votes the way you wanted anyway, no harm done, realistically speaking.
I can guaranty, ain't no liberal getting elected out of Idaho, regardless.
I agree with you completely and I understand that you don't agree with everything the democrats are doing. I just don't think it's fair that liberals laugh and joke about what the repubs do but it's ok for them because they don't talk about it.
Oh, and not to completely change the subject, but my wife was watching a TIVO'd Oprah last night (oprah is satan by the way), and she had a video about Bill Clinton and then talked about him like he is this great guy. Isn't Oprah supposed to be the Queen of all that is woman? Isn't she supposed to dislike Bill because of what he did to his man-wife? Since he's a liberal then it's ok by Oprah? Seems a touch hypocritical.
Sorry to change the subject, but that annoyed the out of me.
I lived in Idaho for a while, you are absolutely right.
No guilt in the dimm-o-craptic party. They honor their own and praise his skills
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Romney sure knows how to pick campaign chairmen
It's a perfect disguise, a nice camouflage this party of morals. But it only works on republican minions, and anyone whose ever lived in Idaho.
BECAUSE he is a Republican, from a conservative state, he will now lose his job, and pretty much be shamed for eternity, as his cons uents exact revenge for his hypocrisy and apparent immoral lifestyle. He is the hypocrite, not his cons uents.
What, exactly has worked for him?
So are you suggesting that the lone problem in this situation is sexuality? Maybe we need a law to outlaw gay, right? Or a regulation that prohibits elected officials from being sexuals, too?No guilt in the dimm-o-craptic party. They honor their own and praise his skills
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Barney Frank is a gay man -- that alone doesn't make him guilty of anything(other than perhaps being different than xray, I guess). I'm really not sure, therefore, that I get the reference to Barney Frank in this thread. He didn't solicit sex in a public restroom and he hasn't ever intimated that he's anything other than what he holds himself out to be.
the republican high horse and their inauthentic expressions of faith. they know how to fool the self-proclaimed righteous.
to xray being gay is a sin.
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