GOP Pedophile Foley Resigns...desperate coverup ensues...

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A disgrace to log-cabin repugs everywhere... :P

Foley's resignation sends GOP scrambling
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer
Sat Sep 30, 4:11 PM ET

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - In a scandal guaranteed to anger parents, a prominent House Republican has resigned after the revelation that he exchanged raunchy electronic messages with a teenage boy, a former congressional page.

Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., who is single, apologized Friday for letting down his family and constituents. His resignation letter was read to the House late Friday afternoon, and hours later, Foley's former colleagues engineered a vote to let the House ethics committee decide whether an investigation is needed.

In Florida, the news sent Republicans scrambling for a replacement candidate six weeks before the election, while Democrats found themselves suddenly competitive in a district where Foley, 52, had been considered a shoo-in.

Sen. John Kerry was headlining a fundraiser Saturday in Florida to help the Democratic candidate, Tim Mahoney, and other state Democrats. But Kerry said the event would be about the issues, not Foley's resignation.

"Folks in Florida will make their own decision about that," Kerry said Friday.

Foley's resignation further complicates the political landscape for Republicans, who are fighting to retain control of Congress. Democrats need to win a net of 15 Republican seats to regain the power they lost in 1994.

Florida Republicans planned to meet as soon as Monday to name a replacement in Foley's district, which President Bush won with 55 percent in 2004 and is now in play for November. Though Florida ballots have already been printed with Foley's name and cannot be changed, any votes for Foley will count toward the party's choice.

At the Capitol, Republicans spent the night trying to explain how this could have happened on their watch.

Among the explanations during the night:

_The congressional sponsor of the page, Rep. Rodney Alexander (news, bio, voting record), R-La., said he was asked by the youth's parents not to pursue the matter, so he dropped it.

_Alexander said that before deciding to end his involvement, he passed on what he knew to the chairman of the House Republican campaign organization, Rep. Thomas Reynolds (news, bio, voting record), R-N.Y. Reynolds' spokesman, Carl Forti, said the campaign chairman also took no action in deference to the parents' wishes.

_Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the Page Board that oversees the congressional work-study program for high schoolers, said he did investigate but Foley falsely assured him he was only mentoring the boy. Pages are high school students who attend classes under congressional supervision and work as messengers.

_The spokesman for Speaker Dennis Hastert, Ron Bonjean, said the top House Republican had not known about the allegations. Shimkus said he learned about them in late 2005.

Just as Shimkus' explanation was released, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California proposed to the House that its ethics committee investigate and make a preliminary report in 10 days. She demanded to know who knew of the messages, whether Foley had other contacts with pages and when the Republican leadership was notified of Foley's conduct.

Instead, majority Republicans engineered a vote to allow the ethics panel to decide whether there should even be an investigation.

Hastert said Friday he had asked Shimkus to investigate the page system. "We want to make sure that all our pages are safe and the page system is safe," Hastert said.

ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former pages, all male. In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page, "Do I make you a little horny?"

In another message, Foley wrote, "You in your boxers, too? ... Well, strip down and get relaxed."

Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect.

"We track library books better than we do sexual predators," Foley has said.

Foley, who represented an area around Palm Beach County, e-mailed the page in August 2005. The boy was 16 at the time. Foley asked him how he was doing after Hurricane Katrina and what he wanted for his birthday. The congressman also asked the boy to send a photo of himself, according to excerpts of the e-mails that were originally released by ABC News.

The e-mails were posted Friday on the Web site of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington after ABC News reported their existence.

Naomi Seligman, a spokeswoman for CREW, said the group also sent a letter to the FBI after it received the e-mails. CREW did not post their copies of the e-mail until ABC News reported them, instead waiting for the investigation.

"The House of Representatives has an obligation to protect the teenagers who come to Congress to learn about the legislative process," the group wrote.

According to the CREW posting, the boy e-mailed a colleague in Alexander's office about Foley's e-mails, saying, "This freaked me out." On the request for a photo, the boy repeated the word "sick" 13 times.

He said Foley asked for his e-mail when the boy gave him a thank-you card. The boy also said Foley wrote that he had e-mailed another page.

"he's such a nice guy," Foley wrote about the other boy. "acts much older than his age...and hes in really great shape...i am just finished riding my bike on a 25 mile journey now heading to the gym...whats school like for you this year?"

In other e-mails, Foley wrote: "I am back in Florida now...its nice here...been raining today...it sounds like you will have some fun over the next few weeks...how old are you now?" and "how are you weathering the hurricane...are you safe...send me an email pic of you as well."

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Associated Press writer Larry Margasak in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/...i8OY_NCEGyFz4D

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How Mark Foley Represents The Entire Republican Party


Yesterday, Mark Foley the Republican Representative from Florida resigned from Congress. He had been caught sending dirty email messages to an underage Congressional page. One of the texts went like this:

"What are ya wearing?" - Republican Congressional Representative Mark Foley
"Tshirts and shorts." - Teenage boy
"Love to slip them off of you." - Republican Congressional Representative Mark Foley

Here's some things about Mark Foley. He had led Congressional efforts to protect children. He started a restaurant when he was only 20 years old. He was named a deputy whip by disgraced Republican Congressman Tom DeLay. He was a frequent guest on Bill O'Reilly. His name will still be on the ballot representing Republicans in the election this November.

What's illuminating here is not that a pedophile held Congressional office. That's just sad and awful, especially for the children he took advantage of and exploited. What's illuminating is the Congressman's behavior. Sending text messages and emails? As if he could never be caught; as if he was invulnerable. And it's exactly the kind of arrogance and poor judgement that has come to dominate the Republican Party. Like Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham who brazenly accepted bribes and illegal campaign contributions. Same with Tom DeLay. Worse, like George Bush and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, tirelessly insisting we're winning, things are getting better in Iraq, when anybody can see they're getting worse. As if the truth won't come out. It's a culture of corruption that believes it can never get caught.

The Republican Party (which turns out to have known about Foley's indiscretions for months) has become the nexus for bad judgement, criminality, hubris, and lies. Mark Foley got caught not because he's a pedophile, but because he's a dumb pedophile. Cunningham and Ney are doing jail time not because they took bribes but because they were blatant, too sure of themselves. It's the same kind of thinking that has turned everything else in this administration so bad.

Mark Foley is a sad, sick individual and I'm not capable of feeling sympathy for those that prey on the young so I won't pretend to. Frankly, I know too many people that have never recovered after becoming victims to people like Mr. Foley. But beyond all of that is his ignorance, the fact that he would leave a paper trail straight to his congressional office- he is also a symbol of everything wrong with a Republican Party that has rotted from within.

- Stephen Elliott

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/...i8OY_NCEGyFz4D

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So, democrats and barney frank are calling this guy a "fag" and

screamed that he resign?

A-HA-HAAA, GOOD ONE

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Wait,so you`re saying he`s a self-hating homosexual the same

way you`re a self-hating american.

That`s precious

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No wait, I got more,

So you`re saying a democrat who seduced male pages,democrats winked and noded,got away with, is ok ?
Gary Studds,Democrat Massachusetts seduced a young male House page, defied the House when it censured him and was re-elected several times.

So you`re saying a gay congressman can allow his home to be used by his boytoy as a brothel is ok also?Barney Frank, is the most openly-gay member of Congress and shared his Washington townhouse with a male prostitute who ran a homosexual whorehouse out of the residence.

This is just too easy

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No wait, I got more,

So you`re saying a democrat who seduced male pages,democrats winked and noded,got away with, is ok ?
Gary Studds,Democrat Massachusetts seduced a young male House page, defied the House when it censured him and was re-elected several times.

So you`re saying a gay congressman can allow his home to be used by his boytoy as a brothel is ok also?Barney Frank, is the most openly-gay member of Congress and shared his Washington townhouse with a male prostitute who ran a homosexual whorehouse out of the residence.

This is just too easy

Who is defending Gary Studds? Didn't anyone ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right? Apparently not, as you are so consistently wrong.

Reality check: Your fellow log-cabin repug Foley confessed to attempting to seduce a minor. There was prior knowledge of his behavior and it was overlooked by the GOP. Hurts doesn't it?...burns...

I would tell you to suck it up and march on, lad... but what with you being a chickenhawk like most neo-cons, I suspect that the closest thing that you have ever done to marching was twirling your baton...

This is just too easy

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No wait, I got more,

So you`re saying a democrat who seduced male pages,democrats winked and noded,got away with, is ok ?
Gary Studds,Democrat Massachusetts seduced a young male House page, defied the House when it censured him and was re-elected several times.

So you`re saying a gay congressman can allow his home to be used by his boytoy as a brothel is ok also?Barney Frank, is the most openly-gay member of Congress and shared his Washington townhouse with a male prostitute who ran a homosexual whorehouse out of the residence.

This is just too easy

Who is defending Gary Studds? Didn't anyone ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right? Apparently not, as you are so consistently wrong.

Reality check: Your fellow log-cabin repug Foley confessed to attempting to seduce a minor.

Bullshit !

More plame/wilson bullshit from the lead bullshitter in here.Emails do not, in no way, equate to Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) who had engaged in sexual relationships with minors, specifically 17-year-old congressional pages. Now the Im`s. How did some anonymous blogger get the email correspondence which the boy’s parents had insisted be kept quiet. And how the blog site, which had virtually no posts and no traffic suddenly catch the attention of Foley’s opponent who immediately asked for an investigation.To what extent is Soros’ C.R.E.W involved.

What we do know for certain is this,Rep. Foley did not have sex with the minor, did not have sex with the young man in the Oval office, did not put him in a high level security position he was not qualified to handle after a major terrorist attack on the country, was not married at the time, did not run a prostitution ring from his apartment, did not turn his back on Congress when he was accused of having sex with a minor, did not run and get re-elected several times in a democratic stronghold after this news broke, Representative Foley no longer sits in Congress, and the page did not disappear and end up dead after an ongoing relationship with Representative Foley.


You`re a disgraced Plame/Wilson Big Liar.

You`re words dissolve into meaninglessness the moment they are typed.

When at a loss for any ideas,the bereft demoncrats go negative. It`s all you got.Your only hope.Unfortunately for you,it`s not enough.The DNC will have detail to the general public what they/you are for. When they admit they are for cutting ang running,allowing terrorists to win,hiking taxes,praying to Gaiai and hugging tres, then it`s over at the polls.

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Who is defending Gary Studds? Didn't anyone ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right? Apparently not, as you are so consistently wrong.

Reality check: Your fellow log-cabin repug Foley confessed to attempting to seduce a minor. There was prior knowledge of his behavior and it was overlooked by the GOP. Hurts doesn't it?...burns...

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Foley Watch-October 2

Bill O'Reilly thinks it's a gay issue. Also, O'Reilly gives Mark Foley a break.

Kos on Why.

Josh Marshal on The Implications.

Chris Bowers at MyDD- Time For Hastert To Resign, with great video footage from ABC.

Jennifer Nix at Firedoglake, When The Fox Is In Charge Of The Henhouse.

This article also has some great links.

White House Spokesman Tony Snow, "Simply Naughty Emails".

Fox News provides cover for Republican Congressional predator.

Dennis Hastert removes Cyberporn Press Release from his website.

The Mark Foley, Ann Coulter, Fox News Love Triangle.

From text to action, Mark Foley tried to Rendezvous with Page.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephe...2_b_30762.html

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The Fluffington post!?

Joe Wilson still post there ?

Foley is a pedophile? In the DSM III, it was simply defined as any sexual urges or fantasies toward a prepubescent child. In the DSM IV, the criteria were changed, so that the diagnosis could only be made if “the fantasies, urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress,” or some kind of impairment in social or occupational functioning. In other words, according to DSM-IV criteria, even if the boy had been underage, so long as Foley was not distressed or conflicted about his behavior, then he is entirely normal.

The DSM is written by the amoral left,people such as yourself.You`re such a dupe and sock puppet one has to wonder if you even graduated high school.

So the democrats want to go to war on the homosexual issue!?

Want to go the slime route simply because they are bereft of ideas?

The propaganda arm of the DNC,the NY Times is getting cold feet already:

Former Pages Describe Foley as Caring Ally

By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Published: October 2, 2006

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — In the hierarchy of Congress, the high school students who serve as Congressional pages fall somewhere near the bottom, seemingly invisible as they scurry through the hallways of the Capitol ferrying messages to powerful lawmakers who often fail to give them a second glance.

In that rarefied world, Representative Mark Foley, the silver-haired Republican from Florida, stood out.

He took pains to befriend the 16- and 17-year-old aides, several former pages said in interviews on Sunday. He chatted with them on the House floor, they said, sent handwritten notes and urged them to keep in touch when they left Washington for their hometowns.

In 2002, he even stood up on the floor of the House, his eyes welling with tears, and commended the young men and women for their year of service. In his speech, Mr. Foley mentioned several of the high school students by name, describing a handwritten note to celebrate one young man’s graduation and a lunch with another at Morton’s steak house.

Ashley Gallo, a 21-year-old former page who is now a senior at Western Michigan University, said on Sunday that many of her friends had viewed Mr. Foley as one of the few lawmakers who made a real effort to reach out to young people.

“You didn’t have a lot of interaction with the members because most of them treated you like a kid, but he was pretty friendly,” said Ms. Gallo, who served as a page in 2001. “He would talk to people,” she said.

“He would say, ‘Here’s my e-mail address if you want to keep in touch.’ I don’t think anyone thought anything of it. They saw him as a mentor or a reference.” ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/wa...rtner=homepage

The emails were inappropriate. THe IM`s of which i`ve already mentioned is another thing and brings up many questions.

Did the family of the teenager authorized the revelation of the instant messages, i.e., whether their privacy rights were violated, and it would appear the family didn't authorize the release since we've yet to hear from them.

Who had the instant messages, when did they received them, from who did they received them, and how did they became public only now?

Just like the Wislon Plame Big Lie the left wing media know who and what are behind the timing of the Foley revelation and are protecting that aspect of the story to prevent the complete facts from becoming public until after the election.

What did Soros` CREW know and when did it know it?