The Daily Background
| Five men come forward claiming Sen. Larry Craig had sex or propositioned them
by Arlen Parsa
The Idaho Statesman, a paper that GOP Senator Larry Craig has accused of harassing him, has published a bombshell article today detailing the experiences of four gay men who either had sex with or was hit on by the Idaho Senator who was arrested for propositioning gay sex in a public restroom earlier this year. A fifth describes another men’s room incident, and there are several details which line up across their various stories (such as Craig’s refusal to take his clothes off and insistence that the men keep their encounters secret).
The men, among whom is male prostitute Mike Jones (who exposed evangelical Reverend Ted Haggard last year right before the 2006 elections) are going public on the record for the first time and the Statesman has published their names along with graphic audio excerpts from interviews with them:
David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell.
Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can’t be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention.
They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig’s denials, including his famous statement, “I am not gay, I never have been gay.” Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now memorialized on a just-released-for-Christmas Talking Senator Larry Craig Action Figure.
Craig refused to comment to the paper. Will he finally resign following these revelations?
Why did AP pick up this story and make it all about Mike Jones, allegining a ploy to sell books, overlooking the other men who seem very reputable?
Your guess is as good as mine. I think the article is just as credible with or without Jones in it.
I think the Senator should throw his hat into the Presidential race. We could have a Republican Primary where you choose between a Mormon Governor or a Moremen Senator.
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