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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (14026)	8/29/2007 7:24:16 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (3) of 224717

Democrat Barney Frank says Craig should serve out term Aug 29, 2007 By ANDREW MIGA, AP WASHINGTON - Rep. Barney Frank says embattled Idaho Sen. Larry Craig should not resign. Frank's comments, made in a telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, came as a conservative GOP House member from Michigan, Pete Hoekstra, became the first of many Republican lawmakers to call for Craig to step down after being caught in a men's room undercover police operation. But Frank, one of two openly gay members of Congress and a prominent voice on gay rights, said Craig should serve out the remainder of his term. The third-term senator is up for re-election next year. "What he did is not an abuse of his office in the sense that he was taking money for corrupt votes," said Frank, D-Mass. "I think people should resign when they have clearly done the job in a way that is dishonest." GOP colleagues have urged Craig to resign. Added Frank: "It's one thing to say that someone can't be trusted to vote without being corrupt, it's another to say that he can't be trusted to go to the bathroom by himself." Craig has since recanted his guilty plea, and said on Tuesday that he did nothing wrong. He also said he was not gay. Frank said Craig would probably lose the GOP primary if he runs for re-election. "Even gay men who have not been involved in this kind of public sex situation generally get forced out of Republican politics because of opposition within the Republican Party," Frank said. "This is unfortunate, but if he's gay it's going to be a problem in the Republican primary."

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