Posted on 09/29/2006 12:40:46 PM PDT by lauriehelds
Saying he was "deeply sorry," Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from Congress today, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former congressional pages under the age of 18.
A spokesman for Foley, the chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, said the congressman submitted his resignation in a letter late this afternoon to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
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Not seeing anything yet. Maybe family as in: parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc.
Also from his website:
Over the years, Mark also has worked closely with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and John Walsh (host of Fox TVs Americas Most Wanted) on a variety of child protection programs. Among the latest of these is a program designed to show children how to protect themselves from online predators.
http://www.house.gov/foley/issues/children.htm
I sense a landslide against the Republicans brewing in the House. I hope all Republicans won't be stained by this pervert, but the fact that this guy is a exploited kids caucus leader makes them all look bad.
Geesh...this guy should be on a suicide watch.
Look at the "bright" side. At LEAST Foley knew what a real sexual pervert was...
I agree. But I just googled Mark Foley and see that it has been suspected at least since 2003 that he is gay. I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility that there was a dirty trick here. If so, it worked.
This boy handed him a note, instead of writing the Congressman a thank-you note after he left. Then there is the suggestion that emails went back and forth even though the boy said he was weirded out or something like that, and then he gave the information to someone who might make it public. I think it's strange that the boy handed the Congressman a note, and strange that he would correspond with him if he felt uncomfortable. Most people would just not write back and that would be the end of it. This happened in the summer of 2005 and is just now coming to light.
Unbelievable!!
A pervert and an idiot!!
"The son of Edward and Fran Foley, Congressman Foley was born September 8, 1954, in Newton, Massachusetts. He moved to Florida at the age of three and has lived in the West Palm Beach area ever since."
"How the hell did he ever get in THAT position."
trying to reconcile with old victims.
Republicans take out their trash.
RAT's let their trash fester for years and never do anything about it. RAT's also become indignant and defensive when someone points the fact out that they have trash that needs to be taken to the land fill.
Boehner probably told him to pack his bags and GET OUT!!
Actually foley won with some 65% in 2004.
From what I've read the Republicans can't take his name off the ballot but can designate a replacement due to foley's resignation and the Republican's can get the word out that a person would not be voting for foley.
It looks like a conservative district so all hope is not lost, also turn this lemon into lemonade by saying that the democrats have a person barney frank, who had a homosexual prostitution ring run out oif his house and he did not resign.
It's a basic political premise: Get in front of a potentially damaging story before it overwhelms you. That's certainly what Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Foley had in mind when the five-term congressman called an unusual press conference recently.
Reports that he's gay are about to spread from alternative and gay media outlets to major Florida newspapers, Foley said. He blamed Democratic activists for spreading the rumor and decried the "repulsive" campaign tactic.
He wanted reporters to know that he won't answer questions about his sexuality; it has nothing to do with his candidacy.
Don't ask, won't tell......
That's where the kids are. These guys are direct if nothing.
So when's the big press conference scheduled or to announce a new "Gay American"?
Many pedophiles get themselves in positions where they can have contact with children. Also, many were molested as children. He might genuinely care about kids being exploited, but he was a fox in the chicken coop.
It's due to the pornography in our society.
Well now we conservatives have been continually accused of being anti-gay, got to demonstrate just how big our tent is.
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