For Craig and Others, a Caucus on the Potomac (Larry Craig's home away from home)

[Judi Lynn]

For Craig and Others, a Caucus on the Potomac

By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: September 28, 2007



Caleb Jones/Associated Press
Senator Larry E. Craig lives on a yacht at the Capital Yacht Club.

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.

All in the Neighborhood 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.

“There’s no other place like it,” said Dutch von Ehrenfried, a former yacht club commodore who says a cabinet member, astronauts, and the musician Yanni have attended parties on his boat. “Why would all these big shots with their big boats be anywhere else?”

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/washington/28boat.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1190978384-3GVZhFjfXjTVEAF86zwjAA&oref=slogin

[Botany]

1. a boater’s bag?

Keep fighting 'em Larry. :rofl:

[tanyev]

2. If the yacht is a rockin', don't bother knockin'

[OzarkDem]

3. Nice place

It has a library, plush conference room, party room showers & laundry facility as well as bar and restaurant.



http://www.capitalyachtclub.com/facilities/clubhouse.html