GOP Senator Enters Guilty Plea Over Lewd Incident In Public Men's Room

Roll Call reports:

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men's public restroom, according to an arrest report obtained by Roll Call Monday afternoon.

Craig's arrest occurred just after noon on June 11 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. On Aug. 8, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the Hennepin County District Court. He paid more than $500 in fines and fees, and a 10-day jail sentence was stayed. He also was given one year of probation with the court that began on Aug. 8.

A spokesman for Craig described the incident as a "he said/he said misunderstanding," and said the office would release a fuller statement later Monday afternoon.

After he was arrested, Craig, who is married, was taken to the Airport Police Operations Center to be interviewed about the lewd conduct incident, according to the police report. At one point during the interview, Craig handed the plainclothes sergeant who arrested him a business card that identified him as a U.S. Senator and said, "What do you think about that?" the report states. [...]

According to the incident report, Sgt. Dave Karsnia was working as a plainclothes officer on June 11 investigating civilian complaints regarding sexual activity in the men's public restroom in which Craig was arrested.

Airport police previously had made numerous arrests in the men's restroom of the Northstar Crossing in the Lindbergh Terminal in connection with sexual activity.

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Comments

[wired]

A Democrat in Connecticut proposed a law to clamp down on public indecency. He's a guy who knows about setting priorities!

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--baggypantsban0827aug27,0,7227523.story

[rextrek]

getoffmedz (See profile | I'm a fan of getoffmedz)
What's wrong with these Republicans?

And a U.S. Senator no less.
Log in | posted 05:23 pm on 08/27/2007

..The worst part of this is (besides his lewd hypocritical behavior) Don't these people think that maybe, just maybe...one of thier children, or grandchildren could wind up being Gay? Imagaine having a Father/grandfather who fought to either take away/or limit rights to gays when you turned out to be one? The stances some of these people make......obviously are not "thought out"..on how it could possibly affect thier own family members....this sick HYPOCRITICAL BEHAVIOR is so typical of republicans!

[SaskiaStars]

So true - the problem is they do not care about anyone else, including members of their own family- look at Darth Cheney. what a bunch of hypocrites!!!

[freeloader]

With you dems and all your queer rights agenda, it's expected by no other than you, that you would have a few converts. So be it some are republicans. Queer dems don't count, cause it's sort of expected.

[barrycourage]

Of course. We aren't closeted and live our lives with honesty and integrity.

Why would we ever be Republicans?

[freeloader]

Yoy may call sticking stuff up exit holes "honest and living with integrity.

I call it queer.

[duridu55]

Republican Senators from He-Man Flyovers are in no need of conversion.

It gets lonely in the Flyovers.

" . . . but the cowboys and the ranch hands knew his name"

[liberalveteran]

Wow, only in America! Another anti-gay, gay Repoopicon acting really badly.

And then we have the police. Imagine, the taxpayers are paying to have cops sit in bathroom stalls pretending to be gay and then arresting gay guys who proposition them.

I guess there is such little real crime in the United States, that we can spare so many cops for bathroom duty.

The only solution: the Repoopicon one. Pass more laws against sex and arrest more people. And then discover that many of those arrested are the same Repoopicon politicians who promoted all these idiot laws.

[Choirboy]

Again, another rabidly anti-homosexual, anti-AIDS prevention, anti-gay marriage Republican who just can't pass up a good, surreptitious blow job from some hot boy lips.

I'm sure it won't do anything to snap those head-up-their-asses Idahoans out of their fog but it could be a start.

[chronic]

Republican who just can't pass up a good, surreptitious blow job from some hot boy lips.




Actually I think its the other way around. Its the repuke that wants to do the sucking.

[PODdem]

Maybe he just has a "Going Problem" seems he's bee there before (link)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/143801.html

[boycottrightwingthings]

After seeing the very long lists of these Repignican hypocrites that other posters have shown, I am beginning to think that the reason that these Republiphiles are anti-abortion is because they don't want their supply of vulnerable poor children cut off.

[VOTER]

The Republican Convention 2008 will include the following platform.

"Foot Tapping and Hand Signals"
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Morning Joe saying he knew rumors regarding both Foley and Craig for years. Hmmmm

[nick1936]

Just another Gay repuk who hates gays

[MrFiskar]

I do not recall blowing anybody in the restroom!!!

[Jackyldo]

Again, another leader of the Clinton impeachment, who is using his time, defending marriage and skewering gays in congress.

Is it something genetic with these people too try and hide their natural selves behind bluster and rhetoric?

[VOTER]

The Republican Party is holding an Emergency Class

for their faithful party members:

HOW TO BEHAVE IN A PUBLIC RESTROOM AND NOT
BE ARRESTED.

Guest Speaker: Foley

[HypocrisyAlarm]

Does this mean that forthwith the senator must stay a thousand feet from any public restroom, public park, freeway overpass, or gatering of 5 or more men?

[HypocrisyAlarm]

Dear HuffPo readers, I regret to inform you that my hypocrisy alarm bell (modelled after the Liberty Bell) through overuse in the last year now has a crack to match its predecessor, and I must retire it. I expect to have a replacement. I don't know when this will happen, as the publicans have removed all controls on the insurance companies (who disagree with my viewpoints) allowing them to raise the rates on my bell's coverage to unaffordable levels. In the meantime, I will use pots, pans, bottles, the steel plates in the heads of publican officeholders (most of them have one or more, you know -- it helps the reception of magical thinking) to raise enough clamor to result in the hoisting of these traitorous, cynical, rabid hypocrites upon their own (substitute phallic symbols of choice).

[DanOregon]

Hate the sinner and love the sin.

Still, nice to know we have one less cop guarding against terrorism at an airport.