[Vision2020] Craig still making headlines

Tue Aug 28 20:08:54 PDT 2007

Yeah, yeah.  He's also not taking any questions.  Easy enough for him to deny forcefully he's not gay.  Technically he may be telling the truth.  Is he also not a bisexual, not a lesbian, not a transgender, and not anything else that fundamentalist conservatives abhor?  Not that it would much matter to me if he was, but in puritan Idaho it would sink his political career even though he's been a very capable senator.

-Scott

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From: Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; Mark Solomon <msolomon at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:39:05 PM
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Re: [Vision2020] Craig still making headlines

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The latest Roll Call at 6:15 PM has his apology 
with the reaffirmation that he is not homosexual.  He has hired a lawyer 
and will not be discussing plans for re-election until next month.   
Says he wants to keep doing good things for Idaho.  

Sue 

  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: 
  Mark 
  Solomon 

  To: Sue Hovey ; vision2020 at moscow.com 

  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:38 
  PM

  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Craig still 
  making headlines

  Given the recent events, the only question is when the Statesman will run 
  Popkey's reports. I'd guess that they will wait to see if Craig "retires to 
  spend time with his family" (as all good Republicans seem to be doing these 
  days). If he does, then maybe they won't run the series. That's his only out, 
  and he'd have to make the announcement very soon before they decide to run 
  Popkey's stuff.

  m.

  At 4:30 PM -0700 8/28/07, Sue Hovey wrote:

  Today during an interview on 
    NPR Dan Popkey stated there have been allegations from as far back as when 
    he was in college, along with others, one a "credible" witness, but when 
    Craig denied everything they decided not to run it.

  SH

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Mark 
      Solomon
    To: vision2020 at moscow.com
    Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:37 PM
    Subject: [Vision2020] Craig still making 
    headlines

    From the lead story section of the NYTimes on-line 
      edition.

    m.

    Idaho Senator Says He Did Nothing 
      Wrong

    By DAVID STOUT and CARL 
      HULSE
Published: August 28, 2007

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 - Senator Larry 
      Craig said today that he regretted his guilty plea in connection with an 
      airport bathroom incident, and he accused an Idaho newspaper of hounding 
      him mercilessly in recent months.

"I am not gay, I never have been 
      gay," Mr. Craig, an Idaho Republican, declared at a brief appearance in 
      Boise with his wife, Suzanne Craig, at his side.

Mr. Craig, 62, 
      apologized for "the cloud placed over Idaho" by his arrest and guilty plea 
      to a misdemeanor charge. But his deepest regret, he said, is that he 
      pleaded guilty when he had done nothing wrong.

The senator said he 
      had chosen to plead guilty without consulting a lawyer, and before telling 
      his family, in the hope that the incident would just "go away" 
      somehow.

"That was a mistake, and I deeply regret it," he 
      said.

Now, he said, he has retained counsel to decide what to do 
      next. Mr. Craig said he would announce soon whether he will seek a fourth 
      term next year.

Meanwhile, the Senate Republican leadership sought 
      to quarantine the possible political damage arising from Mr. Craig's 
      troubles, calling the incident "a serious matter" and recommending that 
      the Senate Ethics Committee review the affair.

"In the meantime, 
      leadership is examining other aspects of the case to determine if 
      additional action is required," said the statement issued by Senators 
      Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader; Trent Lott of 
      Mississippi, the assistant leader; Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican 
      conference leader; Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, the policy committee 
      chairwoman, and John Ensign of Nevada, chairman of the party's Senate 
      campaign committee.

Mr. Craig said today that he and his family had 
      been "relentlessly and viciously harassed" for months by The Idaho 
      Statesman, a daily newspaper based in Boise, which has been pursuing 
      rumors about his personal life. He said the stress created by the 
      newspaper's efforts "and the rumors it has fueled all around Idaho" had 
      clouded his judgment.

Otherwise, he offered no detailed explanation 
      today for the embarrassing events that began with his arrest in June by an 
      undercover police officer in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul 
      International Airport. On Aug. 8, Mr. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly 
      conduct. A second charge against Mr. Craig, interference with privacy, was 
      dismissed. He was given a 10-day jail sentence that was suspended; was 
      fined more than $500; and was placed on unsupervised probation for one 
      year.

According to a police report obtained by Roll Call, the 
      Capitol Hill newspaper that disclosed the episode and the guilty plea on 
      Monday, a plainclothes police officer who was investigating complaints of 
      sexual activity in the airport bathroom arrested the senator on June 11 
      after what the officer described as sexual advances made by Mr. Craig from 
      an adjoining stall.

After his arrest, the senator 
      denied any sexual intent. He said in a statement issued Monday afternoon 
      that the whole matter came down to a misunderstanding, and that the police 
      were "misconstruing my actions." In 2006, Mr. Craig publicly rejected 
      allegations by a gay rights advocate that he had engaged in a homosexual 
      behavior, calling the claims "completely ridiculous."
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