Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, there's a ripple in the latest Republican scandal in the Congress.

The embattled Republican senator from Idaho, Larry Craig, who resigned last Saturday from the Senate after a week of intense media and political scrutiny over a guilty plea Craig entered in Minnesota to a charge of disorderly conduct, has apparently indicated that he may not resign after all.

The Associated Press is reporting that an unnamed Craig spokesperson said that Craig will "look at his options" before considering if he wants to really resign, as he said he would on Saturday, or whether he in fact decides to fight for his senate job.

"It's not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign," said Sidney Smith, Craig's spokesman in Idaho's capital.

"We're still preparing as if Senator Craig will resign Sept. 30, but the outcome of the legal case in Minnesota and the ethics investigation will have an impact on whether we're able to stay in the fight — and stay in the Senate."

MSNBC reported at 8:40 pm EST that Craig apparently met with his adopted adult children and convinced them that he is not gay and did nothing wrong in the airport restroom.Senator Craig was initially arrested on June 11 of this year.

An uncover police officer in the men's restroom at the Minneapolis International Airport said that the senator attempted to solicit sex from the officer and refused to exit the stall once the officer identified himself as law enforcement.

That set off a flurry of fury and frenzied reaction, including calls for Senator Craig's immediate resignation from the Senate, where he has rallied against gay rights for more than two decades, even as rumors in Washington, DC have persisted during that same time about Craig's sexuality.
After nearly a week of battling the storm, Craig quietly resigned from the Senate last Saturday, during the Labor Day weekend holiday. Now, it appears, as with his "false" guilty plea to disorderly conduct (to avoid fighting a solicitation of sex charge in connection with the Minneapolis airport arrest), Senator Craig wants to change his mind, and perhaps not resign and stay and fight.

Labels: Congressional Scandals, Gay Issues, Larry Craig, Politics, Senator Craig, The Senate

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