Henry Stern Stands Up for Larry Craig
John McCain thinks it isn't enough that Larry Craig is stepping down from his committee assignments in the Senate, and has urged him to resign.
But closer to home, political gadfly Henry Stern thinks Craig should hold onto his seat. In a column Stern just emailed around, he wrote:
The voters of the State of Idaho are Craig's employers. They can vote him out when he comes up for re-election in 2008. He has been an elected official for 33 years. Should he resign now, for having deceived the voters for a generation? I would think not. If every public official who fooled the voters had to resign his position, there would be more special elections to fill vacancies than regular elections. And the people who won the special elections might also deceive the voters.
If local precedent is any guide, Stern has a point. After all, how many members of the New York State legislature are holding onto their committee assignments after having been indicted or arrested?
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Thank you Henry! Larry Craig for 33 years has been a public servant, and a dam good one! It seems that the American public has this "Higher Standard" that it is striving to obtain. But holding our elected officials to those standard which we ourselves fall short of is insane. After all these are polticans we are talking about. If we really knew what went on behind those senant doors... Look, what Craig pled no contest too was wrong, but how can we throw away a good man because of a moment of bad judgement. How many times have we done or been involved with something that we are not proud of? People make mistakes! America don't be so hypcritical!
How can McCain & other Republicans justify calling for Craig to resign but are silent on David Vitter. Paying a prostitute for sex is just as illegal as what Craig did.