Sen. Larry Craig will make a public announcement tomorrow, probably mid-morning, according to his communications director, Dan Whiting. “It’ll be in the Boise area,” Whiting said. “He will be making a public statement.”
Idaho Democrats, reacting to news reports that Sen. Larry Craig may resign and that Gov. Butch Otter may choose Lt. Gov. Jim Risch to replace him, called on Otter today to follow a different course. “Should there be a resignation and should Gov. Otter have…
An Associated Press report now cites unnamed sources saying that Gov. Butch Otter will choose Idaho Lt. Gov. Jim Risch to replace Sen. Larry Craig. Risch has been saying for months that he’ll run for the seat if Craig chooses not to run for re-election.…
Here’s the latest AP report: Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is considering resigning, Republican officials said today, after days of public and private pressure stemming from his arrest in June in a police undercover operation at an airport men’s room. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct…
MSNBC has obtained the audio of Sen. Larry Craig’s interview by the arresting officer at the Minneapolis airport, and has been playing it and discussing it on TV. They’ve also posted it online here. Early in the interview, Craig says to the officer, “You solicited…
Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz, who writes about the media, takes a look at Idaho Statesman political columnist Dan Popkey and his work on investigating Sen. Larry Craig in this article, “For Idaho paper and reporter, Craig story posed a moral dilemma.”
Forty men have been arrested since May at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in a restroom-sex solicitation sting that also snared Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, according to the AP, and most were nabbed after going through a similar foot-tapping ritual that police said was a signal…
The executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Matt Foreman, is accusing Senate Republican leaders of hypocrisy for calling for an ethics investigation into Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest and guilty plea in a restroom sex-solicitation scandal, but not doing the same for…
Survey USA conducted a poll of 600 Idaho adults last night on the revelations about Sen. Larry Craig, and found 89 percent were aware of the story of Craig’s arrest in an airport restroom and subsequent guilty plea on misdemeanor charges. Of those polled, 55…
CNN has been hashing over the Craig men’s room scandal at length, causing one of their commentators to come up with this thought: Who’s the happiest man in the United States today? Michael Vick, because this got him off the front pages.
Bryan Fischer’s Idaho Values Alliance is among those calling for Sen. Larry Craig to resign. In a statement posted on the group’s website “regretfully” calling for resignation, Fischer, a conservative pastor, wrote, “No member of the Republican Party in the 1860s could represent his party…
J. Kirk Sullivan, chairman of the Idaho Republican Party, said today, “I’m going to support Sen. Craig.” After hearing Craig’s statement at a downtown news conference, Sullivan said, “I listened, and I heard a man open his heart up today. I think he knows that…
Sen. Larry Craig is planning to make a public statement this afternoon in Boise, at 2:30 p.m. Mountain time. Spokesman Sid Smith said, “In a situation like this, not only the media but Idahoans want to hear from Sen. Craig directly.” It won’t be just…
It’s been a subject of speculation for months in Boise – how Idaho Statesman political columnist Dan Popkey spent five months, full-time, investigating a blogger’s allegations that Sen. Larry Craig was a closeted homosexual who had engaged in sex acts at a public restroom near…
Here is the statement Idaho Sen. Larry Craig issued in response to the Roll Call story, which is posted on his official website (which has been up and down, apparently due to heavy traffic):"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that…
The big political news nationwide today is the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but here in Boise, it’s the Idaho Democrats who are claiming to have helped oust the controversial Bush Administration official.Wondering how that could be? Well, back in June, Gonzales came…
At the Western Idaho Fair this week, the biggest attraction hasn’t been the politicos or the food demonstrations or the biggest pig or even the Starship ride – it’s been the weather. After baking through a miserably hot summer when 100 degrees started to seem…
Gov. Butch Otter may not be saying much about his two-day, closed-door “Health Care Summit” meeting that he convened this week at Boise State, but he was quite clear going into it that he plans to introduce legislation this year based on recommendations the group…
The Space Shuttle Endeavour has landed safely, bringing to a successful conclusion the long-awaited mission to space by an American school teacher, along with completing the mission’s scheduled work on the International Space Station. McCall teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan is now back on Earth. “Congratulations. Welcome…
Pat Takasugi, former Idaho state agriculture director, prominent farmer and former Canyon County Republican chair, has signed on as manager of Matt Salisbury's campaign against U.S. Rep. Bill Sali. Salisbury, who's taking Sali on in the GOP primary, is a 34-year-old Iraq vet with longtime…
With wildfires still raging across the region – Idaho and Montana now have 18 large wildfires each – the Idaho departments of Health & Welfare and Environmental Quality have issued a health advisory for “potentially unhealthy and even hazardous air quality conditions from wildfire smoke.”…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter wants to change state laws to let private prisons set up in the state and house out-of-state prisoners – as long as Idaho gets first rights to the beds. That's part of the plan for getting Idaho a new and sorely…
Idaho Public TV’s Marcia Franklin asked teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan about the damage to tiles on the Space Shuttle Endeavor during her live interview with Morgan and fellow astronaut Al Drew today. Here’s what Morgan said: “The word we are getting is that this is more…
Idaho Public Television producer and host Marcia Franklin will be conducting an uncommon interview tomorrow – she’ll be interviewing teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan and one of her crewmates on the Space Shuttle Endeavor. Franklin will be in Boise, but thanks to phone and satellite hookups, her…
What a cool thing! There was teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan on the screen, her dark hair floating around her head in waves, while kids quizzed her and three fellow astronauts on everything from the speed of a baseball thrown in space (very, very slow, as the…
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