Once upon a time, a man entered a public men’s room at the Twin Cities International Airport. That man, walked down the row of stalls till he found one that was occupied. He then, occupied an empty stall beside it.
Then, the man, newly installed in the stall, peered through the gap in the divider, at the other man, then slid his foot under the stall divider, and toe tapped the other mans foot. Then, he waved his hand under the divider several times.
In response, the other man flashed a police badge under the divider and told him he was under arrest.
The toe tapper was arrested, and charged with interference with privacy, which is a gross misdemeanor offense, and a disorderly conduct misdemeanor.
The toe tapper told the police, that he was a “pretty wide guy”- (wide stance & toe tapping), and that the officer may have seen him reaching for a piece of paper, (hand waving).
But, in the end, the man with a wide stance, and a proclivity for toe tapping, plead guilty to the misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, and mailed the petition and $575 for the fees and fine to the Hennepin County District Court… ALONG with the guilty plea, there’s a provision, which goes like this,
“I understand that the court will not accept a plea of guilty from anyone who claims to be innocent… I now make no claim that I am innocent of the charge to which I am entering a plea of guilty.”
The toe tapper with a wide stance had to sign the guilty plea above by the way. In the end, the court accepted the guilty plea, and payment of the fines and fees.
The toe tapper with a wide stance was then US Senator from Idaho, and then and still NRA director, Larry Craig. He, was also re-elected, in the recent (2025) NRA Board of Directors election, ranking 10th out of 49 candidates. By the way the toe tapping occurred in 2007.
Naturally, news eventually broke, and Larry Craig flipped flopped over and over whether he’d resign or not. Eventually he decided to stay and not to seek re-election to the US Senate… Or is that U-Ass Senate? Interestingly, he was, by all accounts, a most vocal supporter of traditional Western/Christian sexual norms and voted accordingly. And was and is married, and has three children.
In period articles, he was noted as having been, at the time, a long time NRA BoD member, and was the NRA’s go to man in D.C. to push legislation the NRA supported.
I have not been able to find a complete history of when he was first elected to the NRA BoD, and whether or not he’s served continuously on the NRA Board of Directors. I have some old NRA magazines from the era, and they do not list the then current crop of NRA directors.
And then things regarding Larry “Wide Stance” Crag get even stranger. Brace yourself, it has to do with over two hundred Benjamin’s. Shortly after the scandal broke, he got lawyers involved, and they filed a motion to withdraw the guilty plea. That motion was denied by a judge… Uh oh.
Also at the time, Larry “Toe Tapping” Craig, argued in an effort to survive Senate ethics charges, (he was eventually stripped of his Senate committee assignments), that he should have his assignments restored as the “Wide Stance” had no connection to official duties… Big uh oh.
And the attorney’s fees to appeal his guilty plea were paid for from his campaign finance fund. Bigger uh oh.
So a few years later, the Federal Elections Commission sued Wide Stance Craig for, the exact amount varies from reports but, it looks like $217,000 is the most consistent figure.
The judge ruled that he did in fact spend his Benjamin’s improperly, even citing his remarks years earlier in the Senate about his then not being on official business, and, again reports very a bit, but it seems the most consistent figure, is the judge ordered he pay $242,535, which included fines. And he even appealed it to the US Court of Appeals which affirmed the judgement of the lower court… Whopper uh oh.
And this same man is a National Rifle Association Board of Directors member. And according the strongnra.com, he was prior to the 2025 election “also a member of the NRA’s Bylaws and Resolution Committee, Vice Chairman of the Legislative Policy Committee, a member of the International Affairs Sub Committee, Chairman of the Committee on Hearings, and a member of the Meeting Site Selection Committee.” Bylaws and Resolutions Committee member… Is that why the bylaws always get perverted to support the corruption? I don’t have a current listing of committee assignments, as the NRA isn’t that transparent, but they do sometimes change for re-elected members, post election.
Someone from the NRA will no doubt scold me for opening up “old wounds”, or being a “homo-phobe”, or as CEO Hamlin has accused me of in the past of “working for Bloomberg or Soros”, but to hell with them. My loyalty isn’t to the NRA, my loyalty is to the truth. And the truth is Craig’s public bathroom behavior is appalling. One should not be soliciting sex in a public men’s room period. It’s completely inappropriate and illegal. Now, add in the fact that he was found, by a judge to have misused $217,000 in campaign funds, and ordered to pay it back plus fines totaling $242,535, and again, this behavior cannot be tolerated.
Do you see the danger here? This criminal “Wide Stance and Toe Tapping” occurred in 2007. In 2018, the NRA corruption scandal broke loose. Should someone who can’t control his libido, and has been proven in court to misuse campaign funds, be a director of a non profit corporation? A non profit corporation already suffering from decades of financial corruption, a settlement in DC for the Foundation’s misuse of funds, a court ruling in New York, which led to the firing of senior officers, including the Executive Vice President/Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre, and ordering them to pay millions back to said non profit corporation and ordering the non profit corporation to implement certain reforms? And a non profit corporation which is plagued with a seemingly infinite number of other allegations of corruption, and now a RICO lawsuit filed by an NRA member, against it moving forward?
Obviously “NRA 1.0” found this “Wide Stance and Toe Tapping” to be acceptable. And now “NRA 2.0” finds it to be acceptable. Well this life member does not find this “Wide Stance and Toe Tapping” acceptable.
And the NRA’s bleeding members… No wonder.
Sources,
https://www.bustle.com/articles/73548-what-is-larry-craig-doing-now-the-scandal-and-its-aftereffects-were-hard-to-shake
https://www.npr.org/2007/09/01/14114915/idaho-sen-larry-craig-resigns-amid-sex-scandal
https://www.foxnews.com/story/larry-craigs-wide-stance-excuse-gains-prominence-in-lexicon
https://strongnra.com/larry-e-craig/
https://www.politico.com/story/2007/09/craigs-lobbyists-left-leaderless-005775
https://www.kivitv.com/news/don-nelson-sits-down-one-on-one-with-former-idaho-senator-larry-craig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig
https://www.loevy.com/press-release-court-denies-nra-motion-to-dismiss-lawsuit
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