Republican U.S.
senator Larry Craig has kept his promise by not filing
for reelection in light of his arrest in an undercover sex
sting in a Minneapolis airport bathroom in June 2007.
The deadline to file for the U.S. Senate seat
representing Idaho was Friday, according to CBS News.
Though the
three-term senator tried to reverse his original guilty
plea, he was stripped of his seniority in the Senate.
Following a media firestorm surrounding the airport
arrest, Craig held a press conference on September 1,
declaring, "I am not gay. I never have been gay." He
vowed to resign by September 30 but later decided to finish
the remainder of his term.
Thirteen
candidates have filed with Idaho's secretary of state for
his seat, including Republican front-runner and Idaho
lieutenant governor Jim Risch. Craig endorsed Risch in
November, according to KTVB. (The Advocate)