Ah....the gift that keeps giving. Please, Sen. Craig, keep fighting this. (photo courtesy of ABC News) KING5.com (Seattle): (h/t miss kitty) U.S.
October 14, 2007

Ah....the gift that keeps giving. Please, Sen. Craig, keep fighting this.

(photo courtesy of ABC News)

KING5.com (Seattle): (h/t miss kitty)

U.S. Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho appealed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday in his ongoing attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in connection with an arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting.

Craig's appeal was filed at the court in St. Paul less than two weeks after Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter refused to overturn the guilty plea, saying it "was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and ... supported by the evidence."

Craig, a Republican from Idaho, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in August after he was accused of soliciting sex in a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in June.

The four-page filing did not detail the basis for the appeal.[..]

The senator also discussed his relationship with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Craig was Senate liaison for Romney's campaign, a post he abandoned when the scandal came to light.

"I was very proud of my association with Mitt Romney," Craig told Lauer. "... And he not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again."

We'll have video from his exclusive special interview with Matt Lauer tomorrow night.

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