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Larry Craig stories: 40 news summaries

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Craig Is Back on the Job

Idaho Senator returns to Senate after sex scandal

Sep 18, 07 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Larry Craig returned to the Senate today, 2 weeks after he announced his resignation and 3 weeks after news broke that he was caught up in a sex sting in an airport restroom. The Idaho conservative cast two votes and had lunch with some Republican colleagues, but others—including John... More »

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Senate • sex scandal • homosexuality • guilty plea • Larry Craig

Senator's John Is New Tourist Hot Spot

Airport  men's room now on must-see list—even for women

Sep 17, 07 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Be careful about tapping your foot in Minneapolis’ latest tourist destination. Travelers passing through the airport are clamoring to see the bathroom made famous by Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest last month in a sex sting. “We had to stop and check out the bathroom,” said one jet-set... More »

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Minneapolis • sex scandal • guilty plea • Larry Craig • Minneapolis airport • scandal

Craig Moves
 to Retract
 Guilty Plea

Strategy could delay resignation and stave off ethics probe

Sep 10, 07 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Toe-tapping Senator Larry Craig will file a motion today to retract his guilty plea to charges linked to allegedly soliciting sex in a public men's room. Minnesota law allows convicts to recant pleas if they can prove they were not intelligently made, but such strategies rarely succeed. The legal proceedings... More »

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law • Senate • sex scandal • Senate Republicans • guilty plea • Larry Craig • retract • political scandal • scandal

Craig Will Leave Senate After All: Aide

Disgraced Republican will focus on repairing image in courts, Senate

Sep 6, 07 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Larry Craig has reversed course and will resign his Senate seat, his spokesman told the AP today. “The most likely scenario, by far, is that by October there will be a new senator from Idaho,” the spokesman said, after reports surfaced that the conservative Republican was reconsidering plans... More »

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ethics • Republican • GOP • Mitch McConnell • Senate Republicans • Idaho • Larry Craig • Butch Otter

Craig Lawyer
Courts Public Opinion, Too

Billy Martin has done damage control for
Lewinsky, Vick

Sep 6, 07 8:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The man embattled Sen. Larry Craig turned to in his quest to clear his name, DC superstar lawyer Billy Martin, is a master at both legal strategy and managing public opinion, Politico reports. He shepherded the Lewinsky family through the Clinton sex scandal, positioned Wesley Snipes as the "victim... More »

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Idaho • lawyer • Larry Craig • Billy Martin • scandal

Craig May Not Resign After All

Idaho senator could stick if he clears his name in court

Sep 5, 07 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Embattled Sen. Larry Craig, arrested for disorderly conduct after allegedly soliciting sex in an airport men's room, is now flip-flopping on his decision to resign from the Senate Sept. 30. Craig is fighting the charges to which he pleaded guilty three months ago and will consider staying in the Senate... More »

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ethics • Minneapolis • Senate • Arlen Specter • resignation • airport • Larry Craig • Idaho Statesman • political scandal

Craig's Kids Say He Was 'Victim of Circumstance'

Son insists ex-senator's actions in bathroom were misinterpreted

Sep 4, 07 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Idaho senator Larry Craig was just in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was arrested in a bathroom sex sting in June, his children told Good Morning America today. “He was a victim of circumstance,” said his son, who, with his sister, believes his father's... More »

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Senate • sex scandal • Idaho • guilty plea • infidelity • Larry Craig

Blogger Says He Has More Names Up His Sleeve

After Craig resignation, gay-rights activist continues campaign

Sep 4, 07 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - The blogger who first reported on Larry Craig’s gay cruising says he has outed 33 elected officials and staffers over the past few years and plans to name “a few more” Congress members in the coming months. And he’s issued a standing threat to expose closeted gays... More »

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Congress • gay rights • homosexuality • Mike Rogers • Larry Craig • blogger

Sen. Larry Craig Resigns

Apologizes for 'what I have caused'; thanks governor for support

Sep 1, 07 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Idaho Sen. Larry Craig held a press conference this morning to announce his resignation at the end of September. Noting the presence of his family and Gov. Butch Otter behind him, he said, "For any public official at this moment in time to be standing with Larry Craig is,... More »

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Senate • resignation • Idaho • Larry Craig • scandal

Craig Will Resign

Idaho senator to step down September 30

Aug 31, 07 8:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Days after the revelation that he was caught in a police sting operation in an airport men's room, Larry Craig will resign from the US Senate, state GOP officials tell the AP and NBC News. The conservative Republican has called a news conference for tomorrow morning in Boise, where he... More »

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Senate • Senate Republicans • resignation • Idaho • Larry Craig • Jim Risch • political scandal

Craig May Resign Today

Senator’s resignation said to pre-empt
RNC request

Aug 31, 07 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Larry Craig will resign his Senate seat as soon as today, in an effort to pre-empt an official GOP call for him to step down, party sources tell CNN. Following the Idaho conservative’s guilty plea in a bathroom-stall sex sting, the Republican National Committee was preparing to call for... More »

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RNC • Senate • resignation • Idaho • Larry Craig • disorderly conduct

Tucker Carlson Claims Gay Bashed Him

Bow-tied talking head in row after laughing off attack on cruiser

Aug 30, 07 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - After bragging on the air that he hit a gay man who “bothered” him in a mall bathroom, Tucker Carlson is angrily denying he’s a hate criminal. “It infuriates me to be called a gay-basher, since he was the predator, not me,” the conservative MSNBC host... More »

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gay rights • hate crime • homosexuality • Larry Craig • Tucker Carlson • gays

Paper Lacked 'Smoking Gun'

Past allegations were only printed after Minnesota bathroom incident came out

Aug 30, 07 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Howard Kurtz does a post-mortem of the Idaho Statesman's decision not to print the results of a major investigation into Larry Craig's past sexual misconduct until after the sentator's arrest for soliciting was made public this week. While the writer, Dan Popkey, admits to feeling Craig's pain, says he says... More »

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newspaper • journalism • Larry Craig • Idaho Statesman • Dan Popkey

GOP Colleagues Jump Sinking Craig Ship

McCain, Coleman join calls for cruising senator's resignation

Aug 29, 07 7:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Senators John McCain and Norm Coleman joined two Republican congressmen in urging GOP Sen. Larry Craig to resign today, the AP reports, after Craig was moved out of top committee posts by party leadership. The White House, too, said it was “disappointed" with the Idaho lawmaker after the revelations... More »

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John McCain • gay rights • Republican • White House • Norm Coleman • Larry Craig • Barney Frank • political scandal

Republican
Scandal Level Approaches Self-Parody

GOP insider: 'You can’t make this stuff up'

Aug 29, 07 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Larry Craig's bathroom toe tap is only the latest in a seemingly endless string of scandal that has Republicans at wit's end, the NY Times reports. Such episodes are fueling voter suspicion of a party already tied to an unpopular president and the Iraq war. "We are approaching... More »

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ethics • Republican • sex scandal • GOP • Ted Stevens • David Vitter • Larry Craig • scandal • Iraq war

Craig’s Seat
Up for Grabs,
but Not
for Dems

Idaho is one of nation's most Republican states

Aug 29, 07 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s unlikely that Larry Craig will stand for re-election to the Senate next year—but don’t even think about chalking up another seat for the Democrats. Pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in an airport bathroom will probably end Craig’s career, but Politico says Idaho’s one of... More »

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Democrats • Republican • Senate • Idaho • Larry Craig • Jim Risch • political scandal

Craig: 'I Am Not Gay'

Senator addresses media in attempt to set the record ... straight

Aug 28, 07 5:35 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Idaho • homosexuality • Larry Craig • Idaho Statesman • political scandal • gays

Cruising Senator
Has Been Tough
on Gay Rights

Blogs gleefully tote
up Craig’s anti-gay, ‘family values’ record 

Aug 28, 07 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Idaho's outed senator has long wielded his political power against gay rights, and gay advocates, having heard whispers for years, have been keeping track. Larry Craig, whose arrest for cruising in a Minneapolis airport bathroom was made public yesterday, opposes civil unions, gays in the military, and the extension of... More »

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Mitt Romney • gay marriage • hate crime • Larry Craig • hypocrisy • family values • political scandal

Idaho Paper Spills Years of Dirt on Craig

Some question why story wasn't released earlier

Aug 28, 07 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Idaho Statesman today released the results of a five-month investigation into charges of sexual improprieties against Sen. Larry Craig—including an encounter in a Washington, D.C., train station described to the paper by the other man. The paper held the story for months after Craig denied the allegations.... More »

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investigation • sex scandal • Idaho • Larry Craig • Idaho Statesman • scandal

Senator Caught in Men's Room Sex Sting

Pled guilty in return for suspended jail term

Aug 27, 07 10:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig was arrested after allegedly soliciting sex from a male plainclothes police officer in a men's room at Minneapolis airport June 11. The incident is  spelled out in graphic detail in Roll Call, which obtained the arrest report. August 8th, Craig appeared in the Hennepin County... More »

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Minneapolis • sex scandal • sex • Idaho • guilty plea • arrest • lewd conduct • Larry Craig • political scandal • scandal

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