Scamps in the Legislature

If you thought Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig (who is apparently reconsidering his resignation, BTW) was the first federal legislator to get caught trolling for sex in a public restroom, you'd be wrong:

Eventually, we’ll be reduced to writing items about the few Republicans on the Hill who haven’t been arrested in a public bathroom for trying to have sex with an undercover cop dude...


Beloved and now-dead Mississippi arch-conservative Republican Congressman Jon Hinson was such a favorite with white wingnuts that he won re-election in 1980 even after admitting he was arrested for “committing an obscene act” in a Virginia gay bar in 1976 and had escaped a burning porno theater (the Cinema Follies) showing homosexual movies in 1977. The blaze killed nine people.


The married Hinson, of course, denied he was gay.


Just months after this stunning election victory, Hinson was arrested in a public bathroom “on charges of attempted oral sodomy.” And the real bonus? His “cruisy toilet” was in a House office building — the Longworth, in fact.


Hinson resigned in April 1981.