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Strong and silent, Craig’s wife stood by him
She didn't utter a word and she wore large sunglasses, but Suzanne Craig was standing by her male — conservative Republican Sen. Larry Craig, who at that moment was denying he had propositioned a man in the stall of an airport bathroom.
She had walked hand-in-hand with her husband of 24 years to a news conference in front of a Boise, Idaho, bank. She placed her hand on the small of his back as he maintained he'd done nothing wrong, that he wasn't queer and that he'd mistakenly pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor charge in the bathroom case.
Why do the wives of politicians willingly step into the frame of general humiliation that only a sex scandal can bring?
Hillary Clinton did, though her appearance seemed more icy defiance than unconditional assist. So did Dina McGreevey — initially, anyway. Later came a tirade of name-calling between herself and her husband, James McGreevey, who announced in 2004 on live television that he was stepping down as governor of Recent Jersey and that he was a "gay American." His wife stood next to him, looking shell-shocked.
Even Wendy Vitter, after earlier saying she'd erase her husband's manhood should
Perhaps no one knows superior than Dina Matos McGreevey how Suzanne Craig - the wife of Idaho Sen. Larry Craig - felt as her husband insisted he was not lgbtq+ despite his guilty plea in a police sex sting.
Matos McGreevey once stood shellshocked next to her ex-husband, then-New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey, as he announced before TV cameras that he was "a gay American" and would resign.
"I was watching his wife the other morning standing next to him, and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that was me three years ago. Now here we leave again,"' Matos McGreevey said in an interview at her house Friday evening. "She's a victim of the choices he's made."
James McGreevey, the nation's first openly gay governor, later said he stepped down rather than succumb to a $50 million blackmail threat from a male former lover.
When it was Suzanne Craig's turn to stand stoically beside her husband this week, 40-year-old Matos McGreevey said she felt her pain. Matos McGreevey said she stood by her male in 2004 because she still loved him and she felt she had done nothing wrong.
"For me, I decided I was going to stand by my husband's side. I was in shock, I had not had an opportunity to absorb what was happening,
To which Craig added, "Jiminy God!"
Before moving on to the next ask, Craig turned to his wife and said, "Sorry, Hon."
That is from today’sIdaho Statesman, describing a scene in May when the sheet played for Larry Craig and his wife a tape of an interview with a 40-year-old man who claimed to have had sex with Craig in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station.
The sheet actually spent five months investigating “rumors about Craig virtual dating to his college days,” and wrapped up its inquiry in May, without reporting anything. Without this week’s Minnesota restroom revelations, the Statesman’s story might never have run.
And when I pictured Suzanne Craig listening to that tape, I briefly wondered if the story ever should hold run, and if the paper had crossed a line in, essentially, monitoring down every person Craig may or may not include had sex with in his life.
But it is unbiased, of course, mainly because of the scope and severity of Craig’s hyp
Senator's Wife Finds Herself at Center of Storm
Aug. 30, 2007 — -- Literally and figuratively, Suzanne Craig, wife of Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, stood by her man as he spoke to reporters Tuesday, denying that he is gay and saying that he mistakenly pleaded remorseful to charges that he had propositioned an undercover police officer for sex in an airport men's room.
Holding her husband's hand as he approached the podium, Suzanne Craig, wearing large sunglasses, silently stood next to the Republican senator as he peruse a prepared statement. The scene echoed a tableau the American public has seen countless times before — the scandal-plagued politician and his stoically supportive spouse.
Exactly what took place between the senator and Sgt. Dave Karsnia in the Minneapolis airport in June may never be known for sure. Nor can anyone outside of Larry and Suzanne Craig know exactly how their marriage has weathered 25 years of allegations that he has furtively engaged in sex with other men.
Recent scandals, however, contain given the public a pretty good sense of what Suzanne Craig now faces. Tuesday's appearance was the beginning of what observers — including Dina McG