Friday, September 29, 2006
GOP Congressman Resigns After Exposure of Inappropriate Emails with 16 Year Old Page (12:33 pm)
David Espo and Jim Kuhnhenn for AP report “Rep. Mark Foley R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page.”
Foley’s aides initially blamed Democratic rival Tim Mahoney and Democrats with attempting to smear the congressman before the election.update:
The e-mails were posted Friday on Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s Web site after ABC News reported their existence. The group asked the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate the exchange Foley had with the boy, who served as a page for Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La.
“The House of Representatives has an obligation to protect the teenagers who come to Congress to learn about the legislative process,” the group wrote, adding that the committee, “must investigate any allegation that a page has been subjected to sexual advances by members of the House.”
Josh Marshall read the story by AP, and concludes “If I’m understanding this correctly, that means that the leaders of the House Republican caucus have known for almost a year that a member of their caucus was having cybersex with an underage congressional page. And apparently they did nothing about it. I think this story is about to get a lot bigger.”
posted by Brian Zick
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The good ol’ boys club has adhered strictly to their long standing morality code and, at last, this situation could no longer pass the screening test; “Are we likely to get away with it, or are we likely to get caught?”
Now it may enter the test of fire, “How many of us might get caught?”
posted by Sheila Condit on 9-30-06 at 3:15 AM