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Foley To Resign Over Sexually Explicit Messages to Minors (IM's now in addition to the emails)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/foley_resigns_o.html ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crime; floriduh; foley; homosexualagenda; markfoley
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To: lauriehelds
"R U NKD"


61 posted on 09/29/2006 12:58:37 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: jpl
http://www.house.gov/foley/about/bio.htm

Not seeing anything yet. Maybe family as in: parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc.

62 posted on 09/29/2006 12:58:43 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Altair333

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 TV’s America’s 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.


63 posted on 09/29/2006 12:59:07 PM PDT by Altair333 (Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Mexico Right Over)
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To: Howlin

Geesh...this guy should be on a suicide watch.


64 posted on 09/29/2006 12:59:18 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: The South Texan
"Foley, the chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children"

Look at the "bright" side. At LEAST Foley knew what a real sexual pervert was...

65 posted on 09/29/2006 12:59:22 PM PDT by madison10
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To: msnimje
are you really smart enough to be a Congressman?

There is no 'smart test' to be a Congressman. If there were we would not have so many of them.
66 posted on 09/29/2006 12:59:34 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Altair333

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.


67 posted on 09/29/2006 1:00:23 PM PDT by carola
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To: lauriehelds
"Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children"

Unbelievable!!

A pervert and an idiot!!

68 posted on 09/29/2006 1:00:26 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: All

"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."


69 posted on 09/29/2006 1:00:27 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Howlin

"How the hell did he ever get in THAT position."

trying to reconcile with old victims.


70 posted on 09/29/2006 1:00:46 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?")
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To: lauriehelds

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.


71 posted on 09/29/2006 1:00:55 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush Islamofacists; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

Boehner probably told him to pack his bags and GET OUT!!


72 posted on 09/29/2006 1:02:09 PM PDT by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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To: roostercogburn
If they let a repub run in his place, he will lose.

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.

73 posted on 09/29/2006 1:02:34 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: All
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/01/Perspective/Don_t_ask__because_Ma.shtml

Don't ask, because Mark Foley won't tell

By ADAM C. SMITH
Published June 1, 2003

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......

74 posted on 09/29/2006 1:03:14 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Howlin

That's where the kids are. These guys are direct if nothing.


75 posted on 09/29/2006 1:03:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Are you male and under age 18?




76 posted on 09/29/2006 1:04:30 PM PDT by maggief
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To: lauriehelds

So when's the big press conference scheduled or to announce a new "Gay American"?


77 posted on 09/29/2006 1:04:53 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: TexasCajun

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.


78 posted on 09/29/2006 1:05:17 PM PDT by Williams
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To: MadeInAmerica
I simply can't understand this perv crap going on in society.

It's due to the pornography in our society.

79 posted on 09/29/2006 1:06:06 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Pornography kills - a man's soul, a woman's spirit, a child's body.)
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To: ken5050

Well now we conservatives have been continually accused of being anti-gay, got to demonstrate just how big our tent is.


80 posted on 09/29/2006 1:07:28 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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