Senate Career Over, Craig Drops Appeal in Bathroom Sex Case

[Hissyspit]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Senate career over, Craig drops appeal in bathroom sex case

By Erika Bolstad, McClatchy Newspapers – Thu Jan 8, 8:29 pm ET

WASHINGTON — With his career in the U.S. Senate finished, Larry Craig has decided to abandon his effort to overturn his 2007 guilty plea to charges connected with a sex sting in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport . One of Craig's Minnesota lawyers, Tom Kelly , said that Craig, a former Republican senator from Idaho , decided a further appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court would be "a futile exercise." "We've concluded that the Supreme Court would not accept this for review," Kelly told the Associated Press.

Craig's Washington lawyer, Billy Martin , and his spokesman, Judy Smith , didn't return phone calls or e-mails requesting comment. Kelly's office in Minnesota referred all phone calls to Martin and Smith. The decision wasn't a surprise. In December, Craig told reporters at a Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce meeting that he was considering dropping the appeal.

At the time, he said he was "moving on" and had formed a consulting company and also would work with a group in Washington on land and energy issues. A search of Idaho business records shows that Craig established Craig and Associates LLC , a consulting business, in November.

Craig had his final legal setback on Dec. 9 , when the Minnesota Court of Appeals rebuffed his latest appeal in which he'd argued that his guilty plea wasn't valid because he'd entered it by mail rather than by appearing in court in person.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090109/pl_mcclatchy/3140480

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"The decision wasn't a surprise..."

...what with him being caught with his pants down and all.

(Sorry)

[MnFats]

1. Lawyer Says Larry Craig To Flush Further Appeals

Source: 'cco news mpls/st. paul

U.S. Sen.Larry Craig has told his lawyers to pursue his appeal no further in airport restroom sex sting.

Read more: www.wcco.com

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clever headline writers, those WCCO people.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. It was so clever..

that I put it up for a Fark.com submission and tagged it "Obvious". We'll see if that goes through.

[Rebubula]

15. Fark

That is my second favorite website...

I have submitted a few dozen over the years (cannot claim to be as clever as some of those folks), but have never been greenlit.

[Ian David]

3. His legal defense fund is all tapped-out. n/t

[damntexdem]

10. So he can paper it over no longer?

He just won't be able to wipe it off his record.

[No Elephants]

16. Oh, behave!

[gratuitous]

4. A lesson for all of us

When you sign a piece of paper that says you have read and understood what you're signing, you're probably going to be held to what's written within the four corners of the document.

[No Elephants]

18. Senator Craig knew that. And he had consulted an attorney. It was worth it to him

to keep the arrest secret, though. He did not even try to recant until the poop hit the fan, so to speak.

[No Elephants]

19. He certainly made a total ass of himself.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. "Nasty Naughty Boy"

Sen. Larry Craig

The headline alone is worth a nom for humor.

[maseman]

7. This whole thing was a shitty situation

[olddad56]

6. Has he narrowed his stance or is he just "stall"ing.

[MrsBrady]

12. groan....lol

good one!

[MrsBrady]

13. groan....lol

good one!

[awoke_in_2003]

8. Guess he is tired...

of tap dancing around this situation.

[Moosepoop]

9. He will remain dethroned. n/t

[struggle4progress]

11. Ex-Senator Craig Abandons Effort to Withdraw Guilty Plea (WaPo)

Thursday, January 8, 2009; Page A02

After repeated attempts to clear his name, former senator Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) is giving up on his effort to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his 2007 arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom in an undercover sex sting.

A month ago, a Minnesota appeals court rejected Craig's motion to overturn a lower court's ruling denying his petition to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges. Since the case went public in August 2007, Craig has argued that he was pressured into the plea by police and that his conduct was not illegal.

While Craig could still appeal to the state Supreme Court, his Minneapolis attorney, Thomas M. Kelly, said his client would not do so.

"This is not a case the Supreme Court of Minnesota would accept for review," Kelly said. "It's not that novel of an issue" ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010804222.html

[Historic NY]

14. Now he can go into the port-a-john business.

[JNelson6563]

17. Larry Craig: Born in Idaho, reared in Minneapolis

Some clever DUer wrote that when this scandal broke. Thought it was time to break it out again. ;-)

Julie

[pjt7]

21. & the creep

becomes a lobbyist.

[Highway61]

20. Now, he's living in his own private Idaho

:P

[truthisfreedom]

22. "As his case has become incrementally excremental, Craig responded to reporters queries today by

saying 'Blow me. Please?'"

[Bette Noir]

23. I really expected that first sentence to read:

"With his career in the US Senate in the toilet..."

[HillWilliam]

24. I guess his chances were bottom-ing out n/t

[pleah]

25. We still get to use him as the

butt of many jokes, priceless!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[DainBramaged]

26. Craig's appeal out of paper.......................

(rimshot)

[liberal N proud]

27. ROFL

:rofl:

[ozymandius]

28. Awakened to the obvious: his credibility is flushed down the toilet.

[Buenaventura]

29. larry seems pretty unappealing to me

[damntexdem]

30. Dropped his appeal like a pair of pants.