Sen. Larry Craig held a news conference less than an hour ago, not to answer questions, but to issue a public statement about his arrest, originally stemming from charges laid in June and pled guilty to in writing on August 8, 2007, for performing lewd conduct in a public place.

Washington  - A US senator who was a top official in Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign Tuesday insisted he was not gay after pleading guilty to charges of disorderly conduct in a men’s bathroom in the Mid-West.

Idaho Senator Larry Craig made a public apology for bringing a “cloud” over his home state, and blamed his poor judgement in pleading guilty to the June charges on a local newspaper which has been investigating him for eight months.

Craig resigned from the post in Romney’s campaign after revelations on Monday about the incident.