Thread: Senate Ethics Comm. Finally Blasts Larry Craig

Senate Ethics Comm. Finally Blasts Larry Craig
Fri, 02/15/2008 - 11:03 — Judicial Watch Blog

Silent for nearly a year in the case of a disgraced lawmaker who solicited sex in an airport bathroom, the Senate Ethics Committee has finally issued a scathing admonition involving the shameful incident.

Missing in action since last year, the bipartisan ethics panel blasted Idaho Senator Larry Craig for his scandalous bathroom escapade at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last June. The veteran Republican lawmaker tapped his feet and swiped his hand under a bathroom stall in a way that signaled he wanted sex with the man next to him, which happened to be an undercover officer.

Craig got arrested and tried flashing his U.S. Senate business card to entice officers to release him. They didn’t budge, however, and the senator eventually pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct though he has vigorously tried to withdraw the plea since the incident became public.

For nearly a year the Senate Ethics Committee has silently watched the embarrassing events unfold in Craig’s case, even as he desperately argued before the Minnesota Court of Appeals late last year that the hand signal he used to communicate a desire to engage in sex is constitutionally protected.

In a three-page admonition letter sent to Craig this week: http://ethics.senate.gov/downloads/pdffiles/craig.pdf , the Senate panel wrote that the legislator’s actions constitute “improper conduct which has reflected discreditably on the Senateâ€

GOOD BYE SEN. CRAIG!!! And you can bring your AgJobs with you!