Re: Democrat sex offender Kerry Gauthier.

DULUTH, Minn, — The Minnesota Democrat who had a sexual encounter 
with a 17-year-old boy at an Interstate rest-stop said he is 
dropping his bid for re-election, just hours after he said he would 
stay in the race.

Duluth Police say Gauthier admitted engaging in oral sex with the 
boy on July 22 at a local highway rest stop after the first-term 
lawmaker advertised on Craigslist for “no strings attached” sex.

Rep. Tom Huntley, a Democrat whose Duluth district adjoins 
Gauthier’s, told the Duluth News Tribune that he considers Gauthier 
a “child molester.”