12/03/2007
Idaho Paper Out to Disprove Larry Craig's "I'm not gay" Claims
Not content to let Senator Larry Craig's now famous statement — "I am not gay, I never have been gay" — stand, the Idaho Statesman has continued to ferociously pursue claims by four men that they had sex with Craig. Yesterday they published a blistering exposé which collected the five men willing to come forward and discuss their intimate relations with the Senator, complete with audio recordings:
"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."
The Statesman, which gives each man's story in extensive detail, says, "As with [our] August report, the new evidence is not definitive. There are no videos, no love letters, no voice messages. Like last August, they are he-said, he-said allegations about a man seeking discreet sex from partners whom he counted on to never tell. 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."
Listen to David Phillips here, here, and here. Listen to Mike Jones here, here, here, and here. Listen to Greg Ruth here. Listen to Tom Russell here, here, and here. WARNING: Some of the audio recordings may contain graphic language.
Larry Craig released a statement responding to the Statesman's claims. Said Craig: "Like its previous coverage, these latest allegations are completely false and have no basis in reality. In fact, the paper itself states that these baseless accusations contain no definitive evidence, yet they still decided to print them anyway. Despite the fact the Idaho Statesman has decided to pursue its own agenda and print these falsehoods without any facts to back them up, I won't let this paper's attempt to malign my name stop me from continuing my work to serve the people of Idaho"
Good luck with that.
More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig [idaho statesman]
Craig: Statement's Completely False [idaho statesman]
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Hasn't anyone figured this out yet ? He's probably not gay, and can probably state that with a (pardon the pun) straight face, but he's sure as hell bisexual...
Posted by: Paul | Dec 3, 2007 1:33:33 PM
craig is a pathetic, delusional, old queer.
Posted by: nic | Dec 3, 2007 3:58:46 PM
He may not call himself "gay", but he's just playing with semantics. He still wants a cock in his mouth. "Pathetic" is the perfect word.
Posted by: Gregg | Dec 3, 2007 5:44:45 PM
Damn, he's had more gay sex than me...
Posted by: kc | Dec 3, 2007 8:53:56 PM
Why isn't anybody tarring and feathering him?
The people of Idaho must be completely insane to want him to serve them.
Why isn't anyone throwing him out in the Senate?
How lame are Americans?
Posted by: Martin | Dec 3, 2007 11:05:44 PM
Wait Martin, let me get this straight: You want him thrown out because he's gay? Hmmm.
Posted by: shane | Dec 4, 2007 8:34:39 AM
Yeah why throw him out of the senate? Thats discrimination against gays.
Posted by: Vi Agara | Dec 8, 2007 12:32:11 PM
You must be kidding...
Not because he is gay! No, because he has two standards - his own and being gay is apparently okay - and his hate tirades in the Senate against gays... you morons. He does everything possible to make equality impossible.
Shane and Vi Agara you must be both Republicans...
Posted by: Martin | Dec 8, 2007 11:26:36 PM
If I had slept with such a piece of ugliness, I don't think I'd be in any rush to acknowledge it...
Posted by: Tex | Dec 9, 2007 11:02:54 AM
His poor wife.
Posted by: Kermit | Dec 9, 2007 12:47:29 PM
I hear ya Tex. Even in '86, ugh...
Posted by: MARKD | Dec 9, 2007 8:00:06 PM
One. I guess he's gay. But maybe his acts are just sinful and he's actually heterosexual.
Two. I personally don't want him in my community if this is how he acts. Leave him to be straight and represent that demographic as in denial and lascivious.
Three. Why would anyone pick him up at a bar?
Posted by: Ian | Dec 10, 2007 4:56:39 PM