While I was writing my previous post, Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned his House seat. Apparently investigation revealed more instant messages, more sexually explicit, to more young pages. And get this: he was Co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children Caucus in the House. Ewwww.
Yahoo: Foley submits resignation to Congress
ABC: Foley To Resign Over Sexually Explicit Messages to Minors
Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) planned to resign today, hours after ABC questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former Congressional pages under the age of 18.
Posts
1 comment:
Truth,
You're in MA, eh? Foley was born there and says his religion is Roman Catholic.
Any chance this is learned behaviour of an alterboy? The abused becoming the abuser due to a ped priest?
Don't want to go psycobabble on ya, but... can it be possible?
Or are these kids out to cook his goose? Turning the tables on him?
Looks like FIVE> seats up for grabs now:
"Republicans spent the night trying to explain — six weeks before congressional elections — how this could have happened on their watch.
Near midnight, they engineered a vote to let the House ethics committee decide whether an investigation is needed.
Among the Republican explanations during the night:
_The congressional sponsor of the page, Rep. Rodney Alexander, 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, 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."
...and Foley
bio
Post a Comment