Sticky Fingers
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday August 28, 2007
Another gay sex scandal appears poised to rock the GOP, as another homophobic, anti-gay Republican Congressman gets arrested as he is caught with his pants down in a men’s restroom, allegedly for soliciting sex from a plainclothes Minneapolis police officer.
Larry Craig, a seventeen-year member of the US Senate from the great state of Idaho, was arrested on June 11 for lewd behavior and plead guilty earlier this month to one charge of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. He was summarily fined $500. The senator was also sentenced to 10-day stay in the pokey, something that Mr. Craig may have even enjoyed, but the judge in the case stayed that portion of his sentence.
The charges stem from an incident described by arresting officer Sgt. Dave Karsnia in which Craig approached a bathroom stall occupied by the officer and made several attempts to make contact with the man inside. Sgt. Karsnia, dressed in plain clothes and investigating reports of homosexual liaisons in men’s restrooms at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, reported that Mr. Craig engaged in several well-known homosexual pick-up signals, including the tapping of his right foot, as an indication that he was interested in pursuing a gay liaison.
Rollcall.com, the beltway’s newspaper for all things Capital Hill, broke the story late Monday afternoon, and reported that while Mr. Craig plead guilty to the charges, he is now claiming that his guilty plea was made under duress and that he did not understand the nature of the charges against him.
The Idaho Senator, who faces a re-election fight next year, was also allegedly under investigation in the original congressional page scandal back in 1982, a charge that Mr. Craig denies. The Idaho senator has also been recently accused of being secretly homosexual by the author of a gay activist blog just last year, allegations that undoubtedly put his membership in conservative organizations like American Family Association, Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council in jeopardy.
This Leftwing Nutjob loves the smell of GOP hypocrisy in the morning.
Senator pleaded guilty, reportedly after bathroom stall incident — CNN.com
Craig Arrested, Pleads Guilty Following Incident in Airport Restroom but Says He Did Nothing Wrong — Rollcall.com
Comments
ARGSV, Aug 31, 07:36 AM:
talk about a reach around…are people ever going to learn that those that wrap themselves in piety do it only for show…that the public masks they wear fall away in the evening(and public restrooms i gather)...that the vast majority of us are sheep distracted by the rabbit dancing through the field while the wolves thin the heard…sad to say that yet another election could well hinge upon a blow job…ugh
Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!