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http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/226703.html
More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig
Allegations made since news of the Minneapolis case broke lend weight to
rumors about Craig.
BY DAN POPKEY - dpopkey@idahostatesman.com
Edition Date: 12/02/07
David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell.
Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations
can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's
guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual
advance or that he paid them unusual attention.
They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig's
denials, including his famous statement, "I am not gay, I never have been
gay." Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now
memorialized on a just-released-for-Christmas Talking Senator Larry Craig
Action Figure.
David Phillips is a 42-year-old information technology consultant in
Washington, D.C., who says Craig picked him up at a gay club in 1986 and
that they subsequently had sex.
Mike Jones is a former prostitute who told the world he had sex with the
Rev. Ted Haggard last year. The former Colorado Springs evangelist at first
denied it but eventually confessed. Jones says Craig paid him for sex in
late 2004 or early 2005.
Greg Ruth was a 24-year-old college Republican in 1981 when he says he was
hit on by Craig at a Republican meeting in Coeur d'Alene.
Tom Russell, now 48, is a former Nampa resident who lives in Utah. Russell
said his encounter with Craig occurred at Bogus Basin in the early 1980s.
A fifth gay man, who is from Boise but who declined to be named for fear of
retaliation, offered a recent and telling account: He was in a men's
restroom at Denver International Airport in September 2006 when the man in
the next stall moved his hand slowly, palm up, under the divider. Alarmed,
the man said he waited outside the restroom and then identified the man in
the adjoining stall as Craig, whom he had met in Idaho.
....
But the Statesman's investigation, which included reviews of travel and
property records and background checks on all five men, found nothing to
disprove the five new accounts. The men offer telling and sometimes similar
details about what happened, or the senator's travel records place him in
the city where sex is alleged to have occurred, or his accusers told
credible witnesses at the time of the incident.
<much more detail at URL>
Amazing. What is it with these lying sacks of Republicon ****? Or perhaps
Craig is really a closet Democrat out to scuttle the GOP's already slim
hopes for 2008. If so, he's doing a heckuva job...
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Welcome to reality. Enjoy your visit. Slow thinkers keep right.
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Why are so many not smart enough to know they're not smart enough?
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig
Allegations made since news of the Minneapolis case broke lend weight to
rumors about Craig.
BY DAN POPKEY - dpopkey@idahostatesman.com
Edition Date: 12/02/07
David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell.
Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations
can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's
guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual
advance or that he paid them unusual attention.
They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig's
denials, including his famous statement, "I am not gay, I never have been
gay." Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now
memorialized on a just-released-for-Christmas Talking Senator Larry Craig
Action Figure.
David Phillips is a 42-year-old information technology consultant in
Washington, D.C., who says Craig picked him up at a gay club in 1986 and
that they subsequently had sex.
Mike Jones is a former prostitute who told the world he had sex with the
Rev. Ted Haggard last year. The former Colorado Springs evangelist at first
denied it but eventually confessed. Jones says Craig paid him for sex in
late 2004 or early 2005.
Greg Ruth was a 24-year-old college Republican in 1981 when he says he was
hit on by Craig at a Republican meeting in Coeur d'Alene.
Tom Russell, now 48, is a former Nampa resident who lives in Utah. Russell
said his encounter with Craig occurred at Bogus Basin in the early 1980s.
A fifth gay man, who is from Boise but who declined to be named for fear of
retaliation, offered a recent and telling account: He was in a men's
restroom at Denver International Airport in September 2006 when the man in
the next stall moved his hand slowly, palm up, under the divider. Alarmed,
the man said he waited outside the restroom and then identified the man in
the adjoining stall as Craig, whom he had met in Idaho.
....
But the Statesman's investigation, which included reviews of travel and
property records and background checks on all five men, found nothing to
disprove the five new accounts. The men offer telling and sometimes similar
details about what happened, or the senator's travel records place him in
the city where sex is alleged to have occurred, or his accusers told
credible witnesses at the time of the incident.
<much more detail at URL>
Amazing. What is it with these lying sacks of Republicon ****? Or perhaps
Craig is really a closet Democrat out to scuttle the GOP's already slim
hopes for 2008. If so, he's doing a heckuva job...
--
Welcome to reality. Enjoy your visit. Slow thinkers keep right.
------
Why are so many not smart enough to know they're not smart enough?
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf