For Craig and Others, a Caucus on the Potomac

[cascadiance]

Source: NY Times

By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: September 28, 2007

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 — When he is not at the Capitol, Senator Larry E. Craig spends much of his time aboard the Suz II, the 42-foot yacht that serves as his Washington home. Further down D Dock at the Capital Yacht Club, his friend Senator Ted Stevens occasionally escapes the pressures of a federal investigation aboard his pleasure boat.

Former Representative Randy Cunningham, Republican of California, used to reside a few slips over on the Duke Stir before federal investigators built a bribery case against him. And at the Gangplank Marina next door, the disgraced congressmen Bob Ney, a Republican, and James A. Traficant Jr., a Democrat, both from Ohio, traded coveted slips for federal prison cells in bribery cases.

The travails of Mr. Craig, Republican of Idaho, who is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea to charges related to what the authorities say was a sex-solicitation incident at a Minneapolis airport restroom, are only the latest to rock this eclectic Washington neighborhood. Photographers gathered at D Dock on Wednesday to watch him leave for the Senate, carrying a boater’s bag.

One resident describes the strip of Potomac River waterfront as a “floating trailer park” where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Protected by locked gates and security, members of Congress rub elbows with lawyers and lobbyists, judges and bureaucrats, established government contractors and aspiring ones, and others lucky enough to own expensive boats and secure a coveted slip.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/washington/28boat.html?hp

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Hmm... Duke Cunningham had a nice boat from Kontogiannis called the "Duke-Stir".

Now it seems like Larry Craig has his own boat "Suz II" in the same neighborhood...

Larry Craig as an anti-gay advocate (who continues to deny he's gay) got in trouble for illicit sexual behavior as a gay hypocrite in a public place.

Duke Cunningham, also an anti-gay advocate (who's never publicly said he's gay) was supposedly outed a while back for being a gay hypocrite too. Read here:

http://washingtonblade.com/2005/12-2/view/editorial/cunningham.cfm

It would seem according to this article that there's a lot of "partying" and lobbying activities that goes on on the Potomac on these "Caucusing" boats.

Duke Cunningham's now in prison. Could Craig be far off?

A lot of racy stuff and likely corruption in here!

[babylonsister]

1. The plots are thickening! Craig was also or will be issued

a subpoena related to Abramoff/Wilkes case. emptywheel goes further:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1926120&mesg_id=1926120

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Makes you wonder who signed the check for Craig's boat...

Maybe the same guy who paid for the Duke's little ship.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Luxury boats beat the hell out of closets and public urinals

Nice to know how 'sophisticated' the 'elite' cabal of corrupt republicon homelanders is