In June, Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig was busted in the men's room of the Minneapolis airport and charged with soliticing sex. On August 1 Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and kept his mouth shut hoping the press would do the same. The story broke at the end of the month at which time, Craig says he is totally innocent and shouldn't have pleaded guilty to anything.
After three days of intense public scrutiny, Craig's pals say he may resign. For what?
If he's innocent he ought to keep his seat and fight. If he quits it can only be because he's guilty of something worse than disorderly conduct. U.S. Congresspersons don't resign for that. Ask any member of the Kennedy family. Craig can't have it both ways. Innocent people don't plead guilty to begin with. And they certainly don't resign.
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the leaders of the Republican Party are the ones who have decided that Craig will resign.
this website seems to be factual--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/
ap/20070831/ap_on_go_co/
craig_arrest
--and here are some excerpts from that site--
But Republican sources in Idaho said he spent Friday making calls to top party officials, including the governor, gauging their support.
There has been virtually none publicly.
Asked Friday at the White House if the senator should resign, President Bush said nothing and walked off stage.
Republican officeholders and party leaders maintained a steady drumbeat of actions and words aimed at persuading Craig to vacate his Senate seat.
GOP lawmakers, hoping to get the embarrassment to the party behind them quickly, stripped Craig of leadership posts on Wednesday, one day after they called for an investigation of Craig's actions by the Senate Ethics Committee. Craig complied with the request.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Craig's conduct "unforgivable" and acknowledged that many in the rank and file thought Craig should resign.
With a GOP candidate other than Craig, Republicans would stand a much better chance of keeping his Idaho seat in 2008. Idaho is one of the nation's most reliably Republican states. The GOP controls the statehouse and all four seats in Congress, and Bush carried the state in 2004 with 68 percent of the vote.
there's a link on the above page to this site--
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/
potw/51/brokeback-hill
--and one on the second site to this site--
http://blogactive.com/
both of these sites add detail.
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