Senate GOP leaders call for ethics review of Craig.
Senate GOP leaders call for ethics review of Craig.
AP reports:
Senate Republican leaders called for an ethics committee review Tuesday into Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s guilty plea in a police sting operation this summer in an airport men’s room.
Republican leaders also are ”examining other aspects of the case to see if additional action is required,” Sen. Mitch McConnell and other top GOP lawmakers said in a written statement.
They released the statement shortly before Craig’s scheduled appearance before television cameras in Boise, his first public comments since confirming his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
Craig is set to make a statement in Idaho at 4:30 pm EST.
UPDATE: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Senate ethics committee earlier today.
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What’s behind the right’s different response to David Vitter’s call girls and Larry Craig’s boy trouble? In a nutshell, the boys.
As the old expression goes, you are what you eat. And that imagery, apparently, is behind the growing conservative chorus calling for the resignation of disgraced Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig.
For the details, see:
August 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm“Behind the Right’s Double Standard on Craig and Vitter.”
Mitch McConnell will decide if additional action is required, which involves meeting with Craig in a public restroom at the nearest airport.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:33 pmNot sure what there is to review, the guy pleaded guilty. I suppose since it isn’t a felony, then it should be up to the state, and to Craig, whether he should resign or not. Personally, I think he (Craig) should ask his constituents, and if they want him to stay then he stays. I am not from Idaho, and have not voted for him.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:34 pmWhy am I not surprised? You cannot have gay Republicans, apparently. It would scare the women and children.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pmNow, when Faux News reports this, will they put a “D” behind his name????
August 28th, 2007 at 4:38 pmCome on, people–a Republican calling for an ethics review! Can’t you see the guy was kidding?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:41 pm“In June I was scared to death that my (homo)sexual pecadilloes would be publicly exposed, and made a hasty decision to plead guilty”…
…”I didn’t have enough time to engage in lewd sexual conduct, because a police officer was the target of my advances”…
…”I am not gay nor have I ever been gay… publicly”…
-Senator Larry Crud… ‘er Craig (Hypocrite-ID)
August 28th, 2007 at 4:43 pmSenator Craig, the next GOP bus is for you. The Republicans want you under it.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:44 pmQuite excellent opening to your statement, Senator Craig.
“I want to thank you all for coming out today.”
August 28th, 2007 at 4:46 pmAllow the Senator to continue to enjoy his salary. Everybody has to eat.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:48 pmwhy is it that the most anti-gay republican politicians turn out to be gay? is it self loathing or the Republican penchant for bizarro world opposite day, every day?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:50 pmI think everyone is misunderstanding the announcement
August 28th, 2007 at 4:51 pmThe ethics review is for the police officer.
What is saddest is that people are not free to be who they are sexually. Imagine if Craig was able to be in a committed relationship with another man and still be a Senator – all this might never have happened. I’m no fan of Craig (I think he’s a bit of a jerk, actually) but it’s shame that being gay is what will get him booted out of the party.
So, when will the GOP call for Sen Vitter to resign?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:52 pmHe parsed his words carefully. He did not engage in lewd behabior IN THE MINNEAPOLIS AIRPORT. True, he was arrested for the solicitation.
Historically, he has always been threatened with public exposure. He married a woman with three children when he was in trouble a few years ago. She knew what she was getting into with him.
He is “not gay” – maybe he doesn’t consider bisexual being gay.
My question is still – why did this story take more than 2 months to hit the news. Where was the media when a Senator was arrested for disorderly conduct. They make quick has out of Democrats who screw up.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:54 pmBTW, what has happened to Fla. Cong. Allen who bribed a cop with $20 for a BJ last month?
When are they going the review Stevens, Domineci and Young?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:55 pmCraig in a nutshell: “I pled guilty, but I’m not guilty.”
Yuh, right, sure. How stupid do you think we are?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:57 pm“GOP” now the Grand Old Perverts?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:58 pmsilly! every Republicant knows gays have no ethics… fry him!
August 28th, 2007 at 4:58 pmHey TP people are dying in a Unjust War in Iraq.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:58 pmWhat’s with the homo stories???
why is it that the most anti-gay republican politicians turn out to be gay?
Comment by dcr #11
…for the SAME reason they’re racists…
…but love that poon-tang of “color”…
…a’la Strom Thurmond…
August 28th, 2007 at 4:59 pmI’m no fan of Craig (I think he’s a bit of a jerk, actually) but it’s shame that being gay is what will get him booted out of the party.
So, when will the GOP call for Sen Vitter to resign?
Comment by powkat
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It has nothing to do with being gay. It has everything to do with soliciting sex in a public restroom….It just disgusting.
Vitter cheated on his wife in a private hotel room, not in a toilet stall at the airport!
August 28th, 2007 at 5:00 pmCraig is a toast.
Put him in the Hypocrites bus with Foley,Vittor,Huggard and all these so called ‘Family Values’ protectors, for the next ‘Family Values’ circus show.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:00 pmImagine if Craig was able to be in a committed relationship with another man and still be a Senator
Comment by powkat #13
…You mean he can’t?
…then why is Barney Frank able to?
August 28th, 2007 at 5:01 pmi may be mistaken, but i thought i’d heard that an idaho citizens group has also filed a complaint and called for craig’s resignation…
in my search for that info, i came across a story about “newsbusters” being upset because the AP did not classify CREW as liberal…
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington…
nothing there about party affiliation…
…
hooboy – listening to a craig newsconference blurb on the news…
August 28th, 2007 at 5:02 pmthe guy is delusional…
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It has nothing to do with being gay. It has everything to do with being Ringo….It just disgusting.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:06 pmThis guy is arrogant..after what he did,and on the record he pled guilty, now he is blaming everybody.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:12 pmHe kept everything secret from everybody even his own wife and family.
He pretended for years that he is the ‘family values’ man…
He should be ashamed of himself…and resign. He is a disgrace to the state he represents.
“It has nothing to do with being gay. It has everything to do with soliciting sex in a public restroom….It just disgusting.
Vitter cheated on his wife in a private hotel room, not in a toilet stall at the airport!
Comment by Ringo ”
Try that one with your wife the next time she catches you with a hooker. “But honey, at least I’m not hitting on guys in the john!??!?”
August 28th, 2007 at 5:37 pmIt has nothing to do with being gay. It has everything to do with soliciting sex in a public restroom….It just disgusting. Comment by Ringo — August 28, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
Interesting. Yet he never had sex.
Vitter cheated on his wife in a private hotel room, not in a toilet stall at the airport! Comment by Ringo — August 28, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
So you think an act of solicitation that didn’t result in sex, is more offensive than sex with a prostitute, while wearing a diaper. Glad to see your ‘disgusting’ meter is so well tuned! Yeah, sure it isn’t the gay thing! Tell me, how long have you been in the closet Ringo?
August 28th, 2007 at 7:07 pm“Sting operation in an airport men’s room”? What century is this? Today, in most of the world, police have better things to do on the taxpayer’s dime than entrap horny guys. Idaho is pathetic.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:15 pmComment by JefferyK
The sting operation was in the Minnesota Airport. Craig got busted in a busy airport, in Minnesota. Obviously this is a problem the police need to pay attention to. How would you like your kid to walk into a public restroom and find this crap going on?
August 28th, 2007 at 8:26 pmForTruth, JefferyK is a republican – he’d be turned on at that prospect, especially if it involved sex with the kid! That’s the trifecta for wingnuts!
August 28th, 2007 at 9:05 pmHaggard, Craig, Vitter, Newt, that jerkoff in Florida who’s faraid of brothers and so offers to blow them-, and Rudy. Republi-SCUM Famiy Values!
I’ll take my chances elsewhere.
at least Ted Haggard scored the meth so no one else would use it- what a freakin’ HERO.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:08 amIts funny how quickly the republicans want to hold an ethics investigation of this act but if you start a war on false pretenses, kill thousands of people….
August 29th, 2007 at 9:52 amThis’ll probably go about as far as the congressional investigation of Mark Foley.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:50 am