NY TIMES: For Craig and Others, a Caucus on the Potomac

[L. Coyote]

For Craig and Others, a Caucus on the Potomac
By MARILYN W. THOMPSON - Sep 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/washington/28boat.html?em&ex=1191211200&en=3239e510756ad5c6&ei=5087%0A


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.

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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.

“There’s no other place like it,” said Dutch von Ehrenfried, a former yacht club commodore .............

[opihimoimoi]

1. Do they have STALLS???

[calimary]

2. Sounds like some fine living to me.

I spent a fair amount of time in and around a couple of Southern California marinas, and life was good for the people there. It was a very genteel, relatively stress-free lifestyle. You lived on a boat - there was a whole different vibe about that. Elegant, genteel, stress-relieving, upper-crust. Especially if you don't care all that much about closet space. Somebody living there parttime wouldn't have so much stuff to schlep or pack or store all the time.

[L. Coyote]

3. NEW Series: Lifestyles of the Rich and Corrupt!

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