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Posted On 27th August 2007
When it rains NRA Board Member perverts, it pours.
We posted a commentary about the obscene, death-threatening rant of NRA Board member and [1] troubled rock star Ted Nugent on Friday. After just a guitar lick of time, word comes that NRA Board Member and United States Senator Larry Craig (a Republican from Idaho and NRA Board Member since 1983) [2] pleaded guilty to charges of "lewd" behavior in a Twin Cities airport washroom.
Craig's arrest and legal admission to signaling to an airport police officer his interest in a little washroom stall gay tryst occurred on June 11th at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Craig copped a plea, paid $500 and was given a 10-day suspended sentence. As of August 8th, he is on a year's probation.
Long a nemesis against preventing gun violence in America, Craig has been a lead supporter of all the Republican demagogic calls to "family values," not to mention being the NRA's point man on Capitol Hill and a vocal Board Member.
According to his biographical information, "Craig is married and has adopted the three children that his wife, Suzanne, had from her previous marriage - her two sons Mike and Jay, and her daughter, Shae. Through his adopted children, Craig has nine grandchildren."
[3] Wikipedia notes that "The American Conservative Union gave Craig's 2005 voting record 96 points out of 100. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gave him 15."
"After he was arrested," [4] according to Roll Call, Craig, who is married, was taken to the Airport Police Operations Center to be interviewed about the lewd conduct incident, according to the police report. At one point during the interview, Craig handed the plainclothes sergeant who arrested him a business card that identified him as a U.S. Senator and said, 'What do you think about that?' the report states."
Yes Sir Senator! Nothing like gay sex in airport washroom stalls for a staunch anti-gay "family man" hypocrite!
Maybe, Senator Craig should hang out with [5] Republican Florida State Representative Bob Allen, who recently twice received the BuzzFlash.com GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for soliciting an undercover police officer to provide the cop with fellatio for $20.00!
But the real travesty and hypocrisy in Craig's action (and you can bet the bank that this wasn't his first such encounter) is that he represents all those gay-bashing he-men gun guys, while he helps run the NRA and prevents life-saving gun control bills from being passed up on Capitol Hill.
Little did we know that he was trolling men's washrooms for a little bit of sex between flights and gun lobby fundraising dinners target shoots.
Senator Larry Craig certainly gives a new meaning to the cry of so many enthusiasts, "happiness is a warm gun."
For his part, Craig claimed, once that Roll Call -- more than a month later -- "exposed" the June guilty plea, that it was all a misunderstanding and -- oh those wily anti-attorney Republicans -- that he should have gotten a lawyer before he pleaded guilty.
Say what?
So if you are a homophobe NRA member (which we suspect is about 99% of the group), make sure that you aren't in a bathroom stall next to Larry Craig at the next "red meat" association convention. Because apparently Larry Craig is more interested in shooting off your gun than you think.
Craig is up for re-election in 2008.
Craig on Monday resigned from his post as a co-chairman of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Idaho Leadership Team. His name quickly started to disappear from Romney's website: A search for "Larry Craig" at mittromney.com this morning turned up links to five press releases where that name was supposed to appear. Clicks on each link showed that "Larry Craig" is no longer mentioned in those releases.
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