Is suzanne craig gay
Perhaps no one knows better than Dina Matos McGreevey how Suzanne Craig - the wife of Idaho Sen. Larry Craig - felt as her husband insisted he was not same-sex attracted despite his responsible 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 night standing next to him, and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that was me three years ago. Now here we go again,"' Matos McGreevey said in an interview at her residence 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 man 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,
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 guilty 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 read a prepared statement. The scene echoed a tableau the American widespread 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, have given the public a pretty great sense of what Suzanne Craig now faces. Tuesday's appearance was the beginning of what observers — including Dina McG
Two of Sen. Larry Craig's children said Tuesday they questioned him explicitly about "what exactly happened in that bathroom" where he was arrested in a sex sting and believe his assertions that he isn't gay.
Michael Craig said they asked their father about the June 11 incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, which led to the Idaho Republican's resignation last week after it became universal, because "we were shocked" at media accounts of the incident, he said.
Craig, 62, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct following his arrest. The arresting officer said in his describe that the restroom where he encountered Craig is a known location for homosexual activity.
In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Michael Craig said his father was simply "a victim of circumstance" and "in the erroneous place at the false time."
"We've known him our whole life. He has been so trustworthy to us, so honest to us, that we think him," Michael Craig said.
Larry Craig adopted Michael and his two siblings after marrying their mother, the former Suzanne Scott, in 1983. Craig has worked in the Senate to promote adoption.
Among the questions he and his sister Shae Howe
Strong and silent, Craig’s wife stood by him
She didn't utter a word and she wore giant 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 universal humiliation that only a sex scandal can bring?
Hillary Clinton did, though her appearance seemed more icy defiance than unconditional endorse . 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 Modern 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