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Craig: 'I Am Not Gay'

Posted Aug 28, 07 5:35 PM CDT in Politics,  Gossip,  US 

(Newser) – Larry Craig apologized this afternoon—for "the cloud placed over Idaho," not for the disorderly conduct to which he pleaded guilty after being busted in a Minneapolis airport men's room. "I did nothing wrong," said the Republican Senator, who addressed the media in Boise with his wife at his side. "I am not gay, I never have been gay."

The staunch conservative attempted to turn the tables on the Idaho Statesman, the largest newspaper in the state, which sat on the results of a months-long investigation until after Roll Call broke the news of his June 11 arrest last night. He called the reporting a "witch hunt" and said he's been "relentlessly and viciously harassed by the Idaho Statesman."

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Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is seen during a hearing Thursday, May 25, 2006, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Craig pleaded guilty on Aug. 8, 2007, to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after being arrested...   (Associated Press)
Photos released by the Metropolitan Airports Commission Police Department show Sen. Larry Craig, R-ID., taken at the time of his arrest June 11, 2007 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport....   (Associated Press)
Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, seen during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in this May 25, 2006, photo asked his family, friends, and Idahoas for forgiveness Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007, for pleading guilty...   (Associated Press)
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