Senator Larry Craig resigns

Well, not long after I posted the video making fun of Senator Larry Craig, the Republican Senator who plead guilty to a charge during a sex sting operation at an airport bathroom, he resigned. “I apologize for what I have caused,” Craig said. Craig was arrested June 11 in a police undercover vice operation in a men’s room at the Minneapolis airport. The arresting officer, Sgt. Dave Karsnia, said in his report that the restroom is known location for homosexual activity.

“I am not gay. I never have been gay,” he declared Tuesday in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, Suzanne, at his side. He said he had kept the incident from aides, friends and family and later pleaded guilty “in hopes of making it go away.” But pressure on the senator to step down continued to grow both inside and outside the Republican party, man of whom styles themselves as defenders of “family values.”

“It is with sadness and deep regret that I announce it is my intention to resign from the Senate effective Sept. 30,” Craig said, with his wife again at his side and Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter standing behind him.