Yesterday, we brought you news of the case of Washington State Rep. Richard Curtis (R) who got into a money dispute with a gentleman, Cody Castagna, he paid for sex with after meeting Castagna in an erotic bookstore while on a legislative retreat with state Republicans. Despite telling state police that he "wanted to keep the incident as low key as possible," the story began to spin out of Curtis's control after he went to the authorities with charges that Castagna was extorting him for cash.

Earlier this week, Curtis was insisting that, in the words of Larry Craig, "I am not gay." Before that he had told police that his memory of the night in question was hazy and that he may have been slipped a drug that accounted for his behavior that did not comport well with his strong anti-gay voting record.

Now however comes news that Curtis is resigning from office to spare his family.