Congressman Foley resigns in the face of pedophile claims

[Professur]

Foley may not have known & since it was reported by a Big 3 network, he assumed his guilt & not being a Demoncrat, he took the high road (albeit from a low point) & resigned in disgrace. Had he been a (D), he'd have made a speech in Congress & gotten standing ovations.

sorry, that doesn't wash. A man in his position should damn well know for sure. That he never questioned it publicly suggests that he suspected it himself.

 

[Gonz]

I wouldn't doubt it. He seems to like pages. He is a scumbag & should go away now, never to be heard from again. That, though, doesn't change the law. We have 2 issues here.

 

[Professur]

Hiring a hitman to kill someone gets you 25-life, regardless of wether the person dies or not. Arranging a sexual encounter with a child on the internet gets you jail time too, even if it was an adult cop on the other keyboard.

If the good congressman thought he was dealing with a minor, throw the book already.

 

[Gonz]

Key issue is child.

Age of consent laws.

 

[Starya]

It's tough to type with one hand in your pants.

nu-uh. capitalizing is a bitch, but hitting the right keys requires little extra effort.

 

[Gonz]

Hastert will also ask the Ethics Committee to consider new rules so that anyone making inappropriate contact with pages be disciplined. In the case of staff, they would be fired; lawmakers would be subject to expulsion,

Source

 

[Gato_Solo]

How much you want to bet that this get's relaxed as soon as a Democrat gets caught, or the election is over?...

 

[Gonz]

It'll take more than 30 days to enact anyway, it's already moot.

Why isn't there already a ethics rule about this? This problem has been going on for a very long time.

 

[Professur]

Because it's usually boy-girl and that's alright.... or criminal.

 

[Gonz]

This is getting fun

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 5 2006 2:53:48 ET XXXXX

CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**

According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.

The primary source, an ally of Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund. Both are fearful that their political careers will be affected if they are publicly brought into the matter.

The news come on the heels that Edmund has hired former Timothy McVeigh attorney, Stephen Jones, and that former FBI chief Louis Freeh has been named to investigate the mess.

Developing...

 

[Gonz]

Politics at its finest

Freeh to Examine Congress Page System
Oct 05 3:31 PM US/Eastern

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has had a long, high-profile career in law enforcement, experience that could prove useful in his newest job, examining the congressional page system amid a major scandal.

AP

Oops, hold that thought, politics has moved the bar

Does not appoint former FBI chief Louis Freeh to investigate the page program -- as widely reported --because of objections from Democrats... Developing...

 

[rrfield]

This is getting fun

It's also getting creepier. Apparently he started this stuff right away (elected in 1994).

Former page: I was warned of Foley in '95

WASHINGTON -- A former House page says he was warned in 1995 to steer clear of a freshman Republican from Florida, who already was learning the names of the teenagers, dashing off notes, letters and e-mails to them and asking them to join him for ice cream.

Mark Beck-Heyman, now a graduate student in clinical psychology at George Washington University, and more than a dozen other former House pages said in interviews and via e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley was known to be extraordinarily friendly in a way that made some of them uncomfortable.

Beck-Heyman, a Democrat, said the attention was "weird" and he provided a handwritten letter that Foley had sent him after the page left Washington to return home to California, suggesting that they get together during the Republican National Convention in San Diego in 1996.

Beck-Heyman joined the page program in the summer of 1995. He said a departing page told him to be "very careful" of Foley.

Within weeks, Beck-Heyman said, Foley had learned his name and asked at least twice to take him to get ice cream. Beck-Heyman said he declined.

About the Drudge report, it's very possible the kid(s) on the other end of the IM was(were) pulling a prank, but Foley took the bait. Besides, if this were meerly a prank, why would he resign upon the first accusation instead of fighting the charges?

 

[A.B.Normal]

if this were meerly a prank, why would he resign upon the first accusation instead of fighting the charges?

And go into rehab.

 

[Gonz]

election cycle

 

[rrfield]

election cycle

The House is always in an election cycle. That's a lame answer, I know you can do better than that.

 

[Gotholic]

About the Drudge report, it's very possible the kid(s) on the other end of the IM was(were) pulling a prank, but Foley took the bait. Besides, if this were meerly a prank, why would he resign upon the first accusation instead of fighting the charges?

Even if it was a prank, his horny homosexual ephebophile self has been made public. Of course he would resign.