Judge won't let Craig withdraw guilty plea

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota judge on Thursday rejected Sen. Larry Craig’s bid to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport sex sting, a major setback in Craig’s effort to clear his name and hang onto his Senate seat.
“Because the defendant’s plea was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and because the conviction is supported by the evidence ... the Defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea is denied,” Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter wrote.
Craig can appeal Porter’s ruling, but it wasn’t immediately clear if he would.

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Unlimited Hypocrisy

WASHINGTON — As prominent Republicans began calling for Larry Craig to resign, the Idaho senator agreed on Wednesday to step down from his committee leadership posts while the Senate ethics panel investigates the circumstances surrounding his guilty plea in connection to a June arrest at a Minnesota airport.

You know this strikes me as funny - not really 'ha ha' funny but a weird kind of funny.

Although I realize that this says "prominet Republicans" are calling for Craig to resign, have you noticed how much press this is getting?

I find it funny that everyone is outraged by this yet has sat by for the past seven years and allowed the President to do as he will.

Am I to understand that it is more acceptable to lie a Nation into a War and less acceptable to be accused of being gay?

Is it worse to be gay than it is to be responsible for the death of countless numbers of people on both sides of the War in Iraq?

Where has the Ethics Committee been when it comes to the President and his Bushies?

If Craig is guilty of behavior that is unfitting of a Senator than Bush is surely guilty of behavior unfitting of a President,

Is it just me or is this hypocrisy without limit?

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Sen. Craig denies sex charge, says ‘I am not gay’

Lewd conduct complaintCraig entered his plea several weeks after an undercover police officer in the Minneapolis airport arrested him and issued a complaint that said the three-term senator had engaged in actions “often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct.”

Read More Here...If you give a s**t

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Like - Oh My "Gawd"!

US Republican Senator Larry Craig on Monday denied "inappropriate conduct" after he was arrested by police investigating alleged lewd incidents in an airport bathroom.

Read More: GOP Senator Larry Craig arrested in 'bathroom incident'

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