WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men’s room sex sting last year and had brought discredit on the Senate.In a letter to the Republican senator, the ethics panel said Craig’s attempt to withdraw his guilty plea after his arrest at a Minneapolis airport was an effort to evade legal consequences of his own actions.

Craig’s actions constitute “improper conduct which has reflected discreditably on the Senate,” the letter said.

A spokesman for Craig had no immediate comment.

The Charlotte Observer

What’s also more damaging to Craig is his refusal to resign his Senate seat after he pledged to do so. While I do not think that we will lose this seat in November, it certainly would have been better had Craig stepped aside back in September and allow Governor Otter to appoint a replacement so that we would have a seasoned incumbent going into the election. An open seat always carries a risk.