There is a model for the rehabilitation of a disgraced senator, and Sen. Larry Craig knows it well. Craig sat on the Ethics Committee that recommended the expulsion of his friend Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore. After the committee's unanimous vote in September 1995, Packwood resigned, ending a fight that lasted almost three years. But 12 months later, Packwood hung up his shingle. By 1999, his company was billing more than $1.5 million a year to lobby Congress alone. His clients have included Northwest Airlines, Marriott, the AFL-CIO, and energy, finance, trucking, telecommunications and health care industries. Craig appears to be engineering a campaign to reconstruct his image and make him employable. He's following the lead of Packwood and a second man humiliated by sexual misconduct, Bill Clinton. Craig advocated Clinton's removal from office, only to see him become an asset to his wife's presidential ambition/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman.
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Ethics Committee that recommended the expulsion of his friend Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore. After the committee's unanimous vote in September 1995, Packwood resigned, ending a fight that lasted almost three years. But 12 months later, Packwood hung up his shingle. By 1999, his company was billing more than $1.5 million a year to lobby Congress alone. His clients have included Northwest Airlines, Marriott, the AFL-CIO, and energy, finance, trucking, telecommunications and health care industries. Craig appears to be engineering a campaign to reconstruct his image and make him employable. He's following the lead of Packwood and a second man humiliated by sexual misconduct, Bill Clinton. Craig advocated Clinton's removal from office, only to see him become an asset to his wife's presidential ambition/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman.
