Peter Hong, a longtime Republican operative in Minnesota, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a charge of soliciting prostitution in St. Paul.
When reached by phone Thursday, Hong said: “I don’t have any comment.” But did mumble something about still being horny.
To his credit, he’s never been picked up by Larry Craig in the Minneapolis airport john.
Hong is quite the Republican. He served as a spokesman for Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s campaign in 2002 and for the Bush-Cheney campaign in Minnesota in 2004. Most recently, Hong was a point person for presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
He is the third political figure to be arrested in a St. Paul prostitution sting in the past year.
The Republicans better watch it. It could be embarrassing at their convention when more of them end up in jail than on the convention floor.
