Former Gay Prostitute Says He Had an Encounter with Senator Larry Craig

Former Gay Prostitute Says He Had Encounter with Senator Larry Craig

Here we go again.... Republican Senator Larry Craig is in the news again. Mike Jones, a former prostitute who outed Colorado evangelist Reverend Ted Haggard for soliciting him for gay sex is the latest among a list of homosexuals who have claimed that they have had suggestive confrontations or outright sex with Senator Craig. Jones has told the Idaho Statesman that Craig paid him $200 for sex in late 2004 or early 2005. He said that the encounter lasted less than an hour. He said that he recognized Craig when the story broke of his guilty plea for a disorderly conduct charge stemming from an incident in which he supposedly solicited sex in a restroom at a Minneapolis airport in June. This is eerily reminiscent of the outing of Republican Senator David Vitter whose phone number appeared in the records of "DC Madame," Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who faces federal charges of racketeering for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of homes and hotel rooms in the Washington D.C. area. Vitter, who was a very harsh critic of Bill Clinton, tearfully apologized once he realized that his little secret was out in the open.