{"id":12741,"date":"2007-09-01T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12741.html"},"modified":"2007-09-01T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T16:42:52","slug":"i-apologize-for-what-i-have-caused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-apologize-for-what-i-have-caused\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I apologize for what I have caused&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), as expected, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070901\/ap_on_go_co\/craig_arrest;_ylt=AvyxibnXKAKj5HBULIH7olGs0NUE\">announced his resignation<\/a> just a few minutes ago, citing his ongoing scandal as an &#8220;unfair distraction&#8221; to his constituents. He added, &#8220;I apologize for what I have caused,&#8221; though that&#8217;s just vague enough to leave ambiguities.<\/p>\n<p>Craig did not respond to reporters&#8217; questions after reading his brief statement, though his office said it would issue a written Q&#038;A this afternoon with more details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/09\/01\/craig.arrest\/index.html\">CNN added<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;The people of Idaho deserve a senator who can devote 100 percent of his time and effort to the critical issues of our state and of our nation,&#8221; said Craig, speaking under a clear blue sky at 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET) outside the historic Boise Depot in Idaho&#8217;s capital city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore it is with sadness and deep regret that I announce that it is my intent to resign from the Senate, effective September 30th.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), as expected, announced his resignation just a few minutes ago, citing his ongoing scandal as an &#8220;unfair distraction&#8221; to his constituents. He added, &#8220;I apologize for what I have caused,&#8221; though that&#8217;s just vague enough to leave ambiguities. Craig did not respond to reporters&#8217; questions after reading his brief statement, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}