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Larry Pressler After 18 years in the Senate, South Dakotan Larry Pressler was the only incumbent senator to lose his seat in the 1996 election. His sexual orientation came into question in Washington Babylon, a book by Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein. It became a campaign issue and may have tipped the election in his opponent's favor. Whether he was in the closet, I don't know. I'm not going there. But we do know he had a thing for closets. One day he arrived late for a Senate hearing because he fell asleep -- in a closet. I'm sure he had a good reason. Maybe he . . . no, I can't think of one. Another time he got up to leave a Senate Commerce Committee meeting -- which he chaired -- and, thinking it was the exit, he walked into a closet by mistake. Trying to avoid embarrassment, he decided to wait there until the other Senators and staff had left the room. But they didn't leave. They waited for him to come out. I guess he is a closet case. |
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