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By Steve Karnowski

The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho pleaded guilty this month to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after being arrested at the Minneapolis airport.

A Hennepin County court docket showed Craig pleading guilty to the disorderly conduct charge Aug. 8, with the court dismissing a charge of gross misdemeanor interference to privacy.

The court docket said the Republican senator paid $575 in fines and fees. He was put on unsupervised probation for a year. A sentence of 10 days in the county workhouse was stayed.

Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, said that Craig was arrested June 11 by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a men’s restroom at the airport.

Craig said in a statement that he was not involved in any inappropriate conduct.For a link to the original story that appeared on the Roll Call Web site, visit idahopress.com today.

Comments:

I don't always agree with Craig, but if innuendo can kill you, he's drowning. The original charge of "lewd conduct" didn't even specify that Craig actually DID anything that could be remotely construed as illegal -- even in Minnesota. Even if it did, he was not convicted of ANYTHING except agreeing to accept a charge of disorderly conduct (whatever that is) to get the legal monkey off his back. A crime used to require a victim and the perpetrator actually doing something that harmed the victim. Now it seems that simple entrapment and creative prose are enough to convict in Minnesota.
Rob - 6:56 PM, Tuesday August 28, 2007
Please believe your senior Senator when he says, "I'm not gay and never have been gay." Assuming that the Minnesota police can be trusted, he's just another sexual deviant in a position of trust who for the life of him can not be honest about his failings until awkwardly forced to so in the public square. I, however, am gay. I'm one of the tens of thousands of citizens in our mountain states who have embraced our natural disposition and have chosen to live healthy lives, either dating (outside of bathrooms, of course) or settled and married to our same-sex-partners (well, not 'married' as much as simply having children, raising a family, and supporting each other for a lifetime sort of thing). Unlike Senator Craig, we avoid the kind of sexual depravity that he seems to have regularly engaged in and instead focus on honoring and supporting our families and community. Please do us a favor and remember this important distinction in future debates about gay rights and sexual morality.
Andrew - Denver, CO - 6:39 PM, Tuesday August 28, 2007
What are Idahoans thinking as a whole?
bill - 6:33 PM, Tuesday August 28, 2007


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