Thread: Senator Craig May Not Resign

Just heard on MSNBC that the Associated Press reports that Senator Craig is reconsidering resigning. They didn't have any more on it, but say the story will come out later.

WHAT!!!!

I thought that would get your attention, SOSAD. Scouts honor. They're talking about it right now.

Originally Posted by tinybobidaho

I thought that would get your attention, SOSAD. Scouts honor. They're talking about it right now.

I am e-mailing his office and telling him he damn well better resign, we don't want him anymore!!!

Perhaps the open borders folks need him to help push through the AgJobs bill.

I'm going to email his office tomorrow. He's getting out, one way or the other.

Here's a recent article from the AP. If anyone else has something different, please post. I can imagine stories such as this are angering the GOP leadership who probably want Craig and this story to go away. BTW, I heard Craig's childrens' appearance on televison this morning; talk about LAME.
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Craig a no-show as Senate reconvenes
By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 37 minutes ago
9-4-2007

Sen. Larry 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 restroom sex sting.

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.

His spokesman, Dan Whiting, 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 returning to Washington before the end of the month.

Craig gave up his senior positions on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the Appropriations veterans subcommittee last week, at the request of Senate Republican leaders. The Senate began debating the veterans spending bill Tuesday.

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested Craig's GOP colleagues who pressured him last week to resign should re-examine the facts surrounding his arrest June 11.

"The more people take a look at the situation, there may well be second thoughts," Specter, a former prosecutor, said Tuesday. If Craig had not pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge and instead demanded a trial, "I believe he would have been exonerated," Specter said.

Another spokesman for Craig, Sidney Smith, said the senator has no plans to withdraw his resignation.

"I suppose there's the remote chance but ... the intent is to resign still, and ensure an orderly transition," Smith said.

Republican Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has not named Craig's successor and has not said when he will. Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, also a Republican, is considered the frontrunner for the job.

Billy Martin, one of Craig's lawyers, said the senator's arrest in an undercover police operation at a Minneapolis airport men's room "raises very serious constitutional questions."

Martin, who represents Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in his dogfighting case, said Craig "has the right to pursue any and all legal remedies available as he begins the process of trying to clear his good name."

Craig contended throughout last week he had done nothing wrong and said his only mistake was pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

Craig has hired a high-powered crisis management team that includes Martin; communications adviser Judy Smith; Washington attorney Stan Brand, a former general counsel to the U.S. House, and Minneapolis attorney Tom Kelly.

Brand, who represented Major League Baseball in the congressional investigation into steroid use, will handle any Senate Ethics Committee investigation of Craig, while Kelly will assist the legal case in Minnesota.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell denied a double standard in how GOP leaders reacted to Craig's case and the admission in July by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that his telephone number showed up in 1999, 2000 and 2001 phone bills of an escort service that federal authorities say was a prostitution ring.

In Vitter's case, "there have been no charges made," McConnell said, adding that the alleged wrongdoing occurred before Vitter was a senator.

Craig, by contrast, pleaded guilty to a crime, McConnell said. "The legal case was, in effect, over. At that point, the question was for the Republican leadership, what would be our reaction to it," he said.

All three of Craig's adopted children said Tuesday they believe their father's assertions he is not gay and did nothing to warrant his arrest.

Jay Craig, 33, told The Associated Press that he, his brother, Michael Craig, 38, and his sister, Shae Howell, 36, spoke candidly with their father about the June 11 incident.

"Our conclusion was there was no wrongdoing there," Jay Craig said. "We understood the direction he was taking (by pleading guilty) and there was nothing illegal that happened there that would even convince somebody what he was doing was illegal. He was a victim of circumstance, in the wrong place at the wrong time when this sting operation was going on."

In a separate interview on Tuesday with ABC's "Good Morning America," Michael Craig used similar language about his father.

Larry Craig adopted Michael and his two siblings after marrying their mother, the former Suzanne Scott, in 1983. Craig has worked in the Senate to promote adoption

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Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman in Washington and John Miller in Boise contributed to this story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_ ... g_senate_6

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

WHAT!!!!

I AGREE

They're talking about it on Hannity and Colmes right now.

I know I'm watching it, we have to call his offices all of them tomorrow and tell him to get out, we want him OUT!!!!