Prosecutor: Craig is ‘politicking and game playing.’
By on Sep 24th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Prosecutor: Craig is ‘politicking and game playing.’
In court papers filed today, a Minneapolis prosecutor urged the court to deny Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-NV) efforts to escape his guilty plea. Denying Craig’s motion “prevents further politicking and game playing on the part of the defendant in relation to his plea,” the prosecutor wrote. Craig clearly “had hoped that he could plead guilty and that the plea would not be discovered by the media or public,” he wrote. “The defendant’s current pursuit of withdrawal of his guilty plea is reactionary, calculated and political.”
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“The defendant’s current pursuit of withdrawal of his guilty plea is reactionary, calculated and political.â€
September 24th, 2007 at 8:03 pm- – So, that’s Craig’s stance.
Quit stalling. Larry.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:03 pmPoor Larry…he thought he had his toe in the door. Now he’s tapped out.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:06 pm“Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-NV)” Wrong state fix it.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:16 pm“Quit stalling. Larry.”
Comment by Nevar
Noooo! We want him to be a visible reminder of republican filth! Every little self-serving act must be on display, to remind independents of how lying and two-faced republicans are.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:16 pmHe should remain a stall-wart Republican?
September 24th, 2007 at 8:18 pmIt doesn’t matter what the prosecutor thinks. If a right wing judge gets the appeal Craig will slide. The right cares nothing about the law and justice. They just care about greed and loyalty to party above all else.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:18 pmI hope it goes to trial. Then the hypocritical self-loathing closeted homosexual face of the GOP can stay in the news for a long time. And Mitch McConnell can have conniptions over it.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:19 pmI wonder how bad he’s jonesing for weenie since his last foray was interrupted.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:26 pmWe really need to start having elections with more than two political parties. Honestly, why can’t a homosexual couple want to get married and have lower taxes at the same time?
September 24th, 2007 at 8:27 pmCraig is disgusting and political, but he should be denied rights for neither.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:29 pmYou are correct, Doc, but Larry Craig would deny those rights to others.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:58 pmWhat fools the Republicans are. Any pervert in American can get a free government job. All he has to do is say he loves God and hates gays and they’ll send him to Congress every time.
Is it beginning to dawn on them that not a single solitary one of their elected representatives actually believes one word of the party line?
September 24th, 2007 at 9:06 pmCome on, TP, get it right.
Larry Craig is from Idaho (R-ID).
If I can admit it, so can you.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:49 pmCome on, TP, get it right.
Larry Craig is from Idaho (R-ID).
If I can admit it, so can you.
Comment by Zooey — September 24, 2007 @ 9:49 pm
Get it on guys and dolls!
September 24th, 2007 at 9:52 pmHe may wind up in Vegas, trying to get his memorabilia back, but he’s not there yet…
September 24th, 2007 at 9:54 pmOK, he’s not gay, it was RLS- honestly , folks!
or, “come out, come out, wherever you are!”- even in Idaho, ‘ho.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:15 pmLarry Craig is a senator and he doesn’t know how American laws work? Great.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:14 amLet Larry stay!!……..at least until the ‘08 elections.
∞
September 25th, 2007 at 2:25 amDid he take a bathroom break between hearings?
How’s that ACLU thing going for you, Lar?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:31 amAt least Larry’s not one of the child molester Republicans, and there are frighteningly many of those to go around.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5icZT2eJIwU5VjIl_EPmFCLPSSu4A
You know, given righties’ propensity for sweeping, unwarranted generalization, and their “style” of “debate”, I think it would be perfectly fair of us to ask all of them whether they’re child molesters, or have kiddie porn on their computers – and we should all treat them as guilty of the charge until they’ve proven otherwise.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:38 pm