Idaho Senator Larry Craig will apparently announce his resignation tomorrow:
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday.
Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise Saturday morning that he will resign effective Sept. 30, GOP officials in Idaho and Washington told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Word of the resignation came four days after the disclosure that Craig had pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge arising out of his June 11 arrest during a lewd-conduct investigation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The three-term Republican senator had maintained that he did nothing wrong except for making the guilty plea without consulting a lawyer. But he found almost no support among Republicans in his home state or Washington.
Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter appeared Friday to have already settled on a successor: Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, according to several Republicans familiar with internal deliberations.
Whether the arrest was warranted or not, and I frankly I have my doubts, this conclusion has pretty much been inevitable.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Here’s an interesting question, should Larry Craig repay the loyalty is President and Party have shown him by pulling a Jim Jeffords? Would it even occur to him? Would he become a vote to end the war?
As liberals, we are supposed to believe that if people are acting out because they are sick (and repressing your sexuality like he is can be easily defined as illness) you should get treatment, not punishment.
So, should we suggest he pull a Jeffords or just let him go, to be replaced by someone worse.