I have now learned more than I really ever wanted to know about Senator Larry Craig’s sexual habits and preferences and the rituals by which sad and sordid people like him pursue their pleasures. As you may have heard today, he recently pled guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct, which conduct consisted of trying to pick up an undercover cop in a men’s room. Among other things, this incident proves beyond doubt that Republican poiticians should avoid men’s rooms. The short story, from the Times:
Senator Larry E. Craig, Republican of Idaho, pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge earlier this month after his arrest in June by an undercover police officer in a men’s bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
A second charge of interference with privacy against the 62-year-old senator was dismissed. Mr. Craig was fined more than $500 at the Aug. 8 proceedings and was placed on unsupervised probation for one year. His 10-day jail sentence was suspended, according to a copy of a court document in the case.
According to a police report obtained by Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper that disclosed the episode and guilty plea today, a plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of sexual activity in the bathroom arrested the senator on June 11 after what the officer described as sexual advances made by Mr. Craig from an adjoining stall.
Roll Call reported that the officer said Mr. Craig tapped his foot as a signal to engage in lewd conduct, brushed his foot against the investigator’s and waved his hand under the stall divider several times before the officer showed him his badge. After his arrest, the senator denied any sexual intent and in a statement issued this afternoon he attributed the matter to a misunderstanding.
Craig claims it was all a misunderstanding, but it appears to be consistent with an MO documented by this intrepid gay blogger last year.
As per usual in these cases, it is all a misunderstanding:
At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions,” Mr. Craig said in a statement. “I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct.“
I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously.”
Right.
Need you ask whether Craig has a virulently anti-gay voting record? No, you needn’t and yes he does. Another day, another Republican hypocrite.
I must admit that if the guy in the stall next to me engaged in such behavior, at least at first I’d simply be bewildered. To complete the thought I started with, I really didn’t need to know all the moves in the men’s room mating dance (Documented in more detail here, for the curious). Wouldn’t you think a Senator could find somewhere a little more private for his sexual encounters or is the squalid nature of the setting part of the thrill? Maybe one of my Republican readers can fill us in.
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