Ethics Panel Rejects Sen. Craig's Request

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Source: CBS

(CBS News) BOISE, Idaho Senate Ethics committee rejects Sen. Larry Craig's request, says it will review complaint against him pending any resignation.

One of Sen. Larry Craig's lawyers said Wednesday the Senate has no business looking into the conduct of one of its own following Craig's guilty plea in connection with an airport men's room sex sting.

An unbroken line of precedents dating back 220 years makes clear the Senate does not consider misdemeanor private conduct to be a fit subject of inquiry, Washington attorney Stan Brand asserted after aides to Craig said the senator is reconsidering his decision to resign.




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1. I could give a damn about Craig and his shinanigans....

....however, I'm sure the redneck Idahoans will have a tough time accepting this man again, and that has the repugs scared shitless.

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2. "the Senate does not consider misdemeanor private conduct to be a fit subject of inquiry"

Damn. Guess they forgot to tell Ken Starr.

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3. e said Craig had told him he now intended to remain in Congress if he is permitted to withdraw his g

The decision to deploy his legal team marked a reversal of his pledge to resign on Sept. 30, and raised the possibility of a protracted legal and political struggle, much of it playing out in public, with gay sex at its core.

"I thought he made the correct decision, the difficult but correct decision to resign" over the weekend, said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky after he and Craig spoke by telephone. "That would still be my view today."

Craig made no public statements during the day, although he met privately in Boise with Idaho Gov. C.L. Otter, who has the authority to fill any vacancy in the state's Senate delegation.

"We are proceeding based on the assumption that there is going to be a transition at the end of the month," said Jon Hanian, Otter's spokesman. "The senator's staff is going to work with ours to that end."

But McConnell heard something different when he talked with his longtime Senate colleague. He said Craig had told him he now intended to remain in Congress if he is permitted to withdraw his guilty plea by Sept. 30. "If he is unable to have that disposed of prior to Sept. 30, it is his intention to resign from the Senate as he expressed last Saturday," he said.