Larry Craig, the US Senator from Idaho resigned from his Senate seat today. This was expected since word got out of his arrest and guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in Minnesota in June of this year.
The Rupublican Party said it was working against a Craig candidacy and would run a primary opponent against him in 2008 if he decided to run again. Craig was up against the wall so to speak.
Hold on! This just in:
He was for resignation until he was against it.
This from the Idaho Statesman :
U.S. Sen. Larry Craig says he might reconsider his decision to resign if he clears his name in his arrest for disorderly conduct in a restroom sex scandal.
That’s why Craig chose his words carefully during his resignation speech Saturday in Boise, according to a voice mail message he mistakenly left on a stranger’s phone. In the message obtained by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, Craig tells a man named “Billy” that his choice of language is deliberate because it leaves the door open for him to stay in office.
Craig made the call just minutes before his speech.
“We have reshaped my statement a little bit to say it is my intent to resign on Sept. 30,” Craig said. “I think it is important for you to make as bold a statement as you are comfortable with this afternoon, and I would hope you could make it in front of the cameras. I think it would help drive the story that I’m willing to fight, that I’ve got quality people out there fighting in my defense, and that this thing could take a new turn or a new shape, it has that potential.”
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Arlen Spector (RINO-PA) mentioned on Fox News Sunday that Craig should reconsider his resignation. Not a good idea. Craig will just sink the Republican Party if he fights this.
Michelle Malkin has a voice mail audio of Craig and his decision to reconsider.
This is just more for the MSM to focus on and ignore Hillary Clinon’s Campaign money laundering problems .
What’s more important a grown man playing footsie in a mens room or a major campaign hiding hundreds of thousand if not millions of dollars of illicit campaign funds?
t/b: Rhymes With Right
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