LARRY CRAIG SPEAKS ABOUT THE BATHROOM SEX SCANDAL
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Disgraced Senator Larry Craig sat down with Matt Lauer to give his side of the bathroom sex scandal that's almost cost him his career. With his wife by his side and family pictures strategically placed in his family room, Craig carefully responded to the charges. The conservative Republican is accused of solicitating gay sex from an undercover cop at Minneapolis Airport in June. This was a bathroom that was known for anonymous homosexual encounters.
Craig denied trying to arrange a sexual encounter. He said he didn't look into the officer's stall and never tapped his foot to arrange for sex. "I use the bathroom for bathroom's sake," he told Lauer. "This was an officer who was more interested in the arrest than the facts." Craig said the officer was a "profiler" and everything he said during a taped conversation that they had after the arrest was the truth.
Craig waited six weeks until he told his wife about the arrest. Suzanne Craig said she was disappointed that he waited so long to tell her about it. Suzanne admits she asked her husband if she was gay and was comfortable with his answer. "I honestly believe my husband has always been faithful to me in every way," Suzanne said.
Craig said he was hurt by the way his fellow politicians, many whom he considered friends, reacted to the scandal. He said he was particularly hurt by presidential candidate Mitt Romney who dropped him from his campaign.
Despite saying he was going to resign, Craig promised he will finish his term in the Senate. "I won't resign. I will finish out the term," he said. "My dad taught me that when I started a job, to work hard and finish it, no matter how hard it got." Craig's term expires in January 2009.
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