Lawdy, lawdy! Just how many bathrooms across the US has Larry done the toe-tap shuffle?

Before arrest, Craig hired lawyer to fight newspaper

Sen. Larry Craig hired a lawyer in a possible suit against The Idaho Statesman newspaper, a spokesman says.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Months before his arrest at a Minnesota airport, Sen. Larry Craig was considering a lawsuit against an Idaho newspaper and hired an attorney he later retained to represent him in the sex sting case.

Craig, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct following his arrest in a June 11 police sting at an airport men’s room, hired Washington lawyer Billy Martin and public relations executive Judy Smith in late January or early February, spokesman Dan Whiting said Wednesday.

Craig hired Martin and Smith because he was thinking of suing The Idaho Statesman newspaper for “harassment” over its investigation into Craig’s sexual orientation, Whiting said.

Whiting said the pair stopped working for Craig on June 7 — four days before Craig’s arrest at a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Martin and Smith ended their work June 7 because the dispute with the newspaper had “certainly died down by that point,” Whiting said.

Associated Press

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