GOP touts swift action on Craig by Delia Cruceru

The Republican Senator Larry Craig had to resign after 25 years of representing the state of Idaho after being caught in a Minneapolis airport men's room by an undercover police officer engaging in conduct "often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct.'' Craig resigned Saturday over the sex scandal after being pressured by other Republicans worried that elections next year will have disastrous results for them. "I apologize for what I have caused. I am deeply sorry," Craig said. Other Republican, GOP Sen. David Vitter, was involved in soliciting from his Washington phone an escort service that it turned out to be a prostitution ring lead by a woman that was accused after that of racketeering. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the Senate Republican campaign chairman, said that Craig admitted his guilt, but "David Vitter never did that. Larry Craig did." A Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy said that he doesn't think Republicans will ask Vitter to resign because otherwise he will be replaced with a Democrat, and that isn't their greatest desire. "It's easier to ask Larry Craig to resign because he'd be replaced by a Republican." At first, Craig admitted the charges, but after that he denied any intercourse with the undercover police officer saying he did nothing wrong and "I am not gay. I never have been gay."

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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