Craig: 'I Am Not Gay'

Senator addresses media in attempt to set the record ... straight
By Marie Morris,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 28, 2007 5:35 PM CDT
Craig: 'I Am Not Gay'
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 at the Minneapolis airport. A Hennepin County court docket showed Craig pleading guilty, with the court...   (Associated Press)

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." (More Larry Craig stories.)

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