“Guilty or not, Craig should resign. Senator Larry Craig resigned last week. His resignation comes amid the controversy of his June arrest on charges of lewd and disorderly conduct in the men’s room of a Minneapolis airport. He reportedly stared at a plain-clothes police officer through the door of the officer’s stall and then entered the adjacent stall.”
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Guilty or not, Craig should resign.

Senator Larry Craig resigned last week. His resignation comes amid the controversy of his June arrest on charges of lewd and disorderly conduct in the men’s room of a Minneapolis airport.

He reportedly stared at a plain-clothes police officer through the door of the officer’s stall and then entered the adjacent stall.

There he allegedly solicited the officer by tapping his feet, placing his hand under the dividing wall and making physical contact with him.

Yet, Craig claims that he did nothing wrong and that he is not gay.

Sounds very similar to another politician who famously said, I am not a crook.

Now, weeks after entering a guilty plea, Craig says pleading guilty was a mistake.

Seems like he wasn’t planning on the media finding out about his little fiasco. He said he was trying to deal with the matter quickly and expeditiously.

Once the media found out, the story changed. But if Craig didn’t do anything wrong, why did he resign? As a politician in the public eye, why would you plead guilty if you were, in fact, innocent? Craig not only looks like an aspiring john, but also a liar.

Now he is trying to withdraw his guilty plea, and is reconsidering his resignation, set to go into effect on Sept. 30.

Craig has stated that he will withdraw his resignation and return to the Senate if he can get the case in Minneapolis dismissed.

If not, he will resign from the Senate as he publicly announced last week.

An elected official who makes a public resignation should not be able to withdraw that resignation. A case should not be dismissed simply because the defendant is a senator.

There must be some reason he resigned, just like there must have been some reason for his guilty plea.

Even if the case gets dismissed, the resignation should stand.

It’s unfortunate, however, that the citizens of Idaho have to wait until the end of the month for his resignation to come into effect.

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