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Page Disputes Warning About Rep. Foley (HMMMMM! Verrry Interesting!)
Palm Beach Post ^ | 10/2/06

Posted on 10/02/2006 1:27:37 PM PDT by areafiftyone

WASHINGTON - At least one former congressional page is disputing another former page's claims that pages were warned five years ago to beware of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fort Pierce.

Matthew Loraditch, a page in the 2001-2002 class, told ABC News he and other pages were warned about Foley by a supervisor in the House Clerk's office. Loraditch, the president of the Page Alumni Association, said the pages were told "don't get too wrapped up in him being too nice to you and all that kind of stuff."

But another page, who asked not to be named told The Palm Beach Post, "The program in no official capacity warned us about it," and he said that Loraditch had posted an explanation for his comments to ABC on the college social network, Facebook.com.

Loraditch's Facebook.com statement said: "I have received several heated responses from my fellow pages about media involvement in the current situation. I want to respond with a few points and thoughts.

"Firstly, as to the ABC "Warned" story, while I may have inadvertently used the word, "warned," in communication, I can assure you it was not intended. The fact of the matter is in an informal situation a supervisor mentioned that Foley was a bit odd or flaky and did not connote by tone or otherwise that he should be avoided.

"Secondly as to talking out in general, . . . I don't think anyone can argue that protecting kids, pages, or whomever from sexual predators is anything but the most important of this whole saga. Nothing comes in front of the safety of the page program, not the page program, a member of congress, no one.

"Thirdly, I have stressed several key points in my contact with media that all situations with Mr. Foley occurred after we had finished our service as pages. That if anything had happed while we were in Washington, it would have been dealt with. That I have full faith and trust that any of the supervisors and staff we worked with would have properly dealt with any situation like the current one. That the page program is one of the most wonderful and educational experiences a youth can have.

"Fourthly, although not all of you know people who have had these horrible conversation with Foley, I do. And frankly that gives me all the more reason to speak out. . . .

"Finally, if i have hurt or offended anyone, I am sorry. And I love my page friends and I cherish my relationships with the page program staff, however fracture some of this may have made them. I want you all to know that I truly believe that I'm doing the best that I can do."

The other page said most pages are angry at Loraditch's comments and that the page program did its best to ensure the safety of pages, with strict rules and curfews.

Also Monday, the placard that once designated Foley's office was gone early this morning, two days after he resigned amid allegations of inappropriate communications with a minor.

Around 10:30 a.m., a congressional employee put up a new sign reading, "Office of the 16th Congressional District of Florida.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionscongress; foley; foleygate; govwatch; markfoley; rinowatch
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To: onyx
James Traficant.

-PJ

41 posted on 10/02/2006 2:23:10 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: onyx

Let's add Murtha to your list. If you have seen the FBI tape from the ABSCAM investigation, it is obvious the man is an arrogant, filthy mouthed crook. It sounds like 3 mob guys talking.


42 posted on 10/02/2006 2:24:14 PM PDT by Bahbah (Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
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To: Political Junkie Too


Yes, indeed. Thank you!
:)


43 posted on 10/02/2006 2:24:14 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: areafiftyone
So, is this page now Sabatoing the GOP House leadership?

-PJ

44 posted on 10/02/2006 2:24:23 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Bahbah

BOOT Murtha!

VOTE for Diana Irey!


45 posted on 10/02/2006 2:25:21 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Fourthly, although not all of you know people who have had these horrible conversation with Foley, I do. And frankly that gives me all the more reason to speak out. . . .

What do you think he meant by this? It just seems to be worded strangely, like the page that got these IM's may be suspect, or am I reading this totally wrong.

46 posted on 10/02/2006 2:25:28 PM PDT by codercpc
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To: onyx

How about we stop electing people with sexual pathologies?

Pathology: any deviation from a healthy, normal, or efficient condition. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.)


47 posted on 10/02/2006 2:25:51 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Gordongekko909
"There are Helen Thomases in them thar hills, I hear. Just waiting for young men to come along so that she can do unspeakable things to them."

Why not? She certainly has been doing unspeakable things to her readers for years.

48 posted on 10/02/2006 2:27:12 PM PDT by Fatuncle (Of course I'm ignorant. I'm here to learn.)
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To: weegee

Honestly couldn't they at least have come up with at least one angry jilted homosexual to attack Foley directly?

Of Course not, because that would involve proving Foley is gay and attack him for it.

This way to so much easier, you don't have to prove anything.


49 posted on 10/02/2006 2:29:37 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
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To: weegee

Of course.

Think about this:

Democrats are in an uproar about Foley and pages....
but they have NO PROBLEM with homosexuals serving as BOY SCOUT leaders.

I am against homsexuals having close contact with boys, period!


50 posted on 10/02/2006 2:32:11 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: indcons

Did he cop to sending the messages to 'the page in question,' or to 'a person who used to be a page, who gave him his email and IM ID when he left the program?'

It's still creepy, but a whole different ball of wax if Foley was trolling 'of age' young men who were responding to his overtures.

I don't like the current ideas of what is acceptable behavior among consenting 'adults,' but that's what society is today...


51 posted on 10/02/2006 2:32:45 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: usmcobra

Good job! You caught that ommission, too.


52 posted on 10/02/2006 2:36:22 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: areafiftyone

"Ironically, Foley, who is 52 and single, could be found to have violated a law that he helped to write as co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus."


53 posted on 10/02/2006 2:37:15 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?")
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To: codercpc

I think he's saying that he knows the page that participated in the IM's.


54 posted on 10/02/2006 2:38:00 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: pinz-n-needlez

Page Alumni Association? Ugh.


55 posted on 10/02/2006 2:38:34 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: codercpc

I think it means he knows a page who got one or more offensive IM messages. Remember, a lot of pages were attacking him for going after Foley and raising questions about the page system, so he's just saying that maybe they don't really believe the stories but he does because he knows somebody who got a bad IM.


56 posted on 10/02/2006 2:38:44 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Young Matthew strikes me as another Bill Clinton in the making. He's star struck and making his way up the political ladder.


57 posted on 10/02/2006 2:39:47 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: usmcobra
Don't ask that yet cause Foley didn't tell. Who knows what the FBI will uncover, could well be a jilted liberal told to be quiet about being jilted.

This is about cutting off the head of the Republican leadership as preemptive strike for election 2006.
58 posted on 10/02/2006 2:40:37 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Buck W.

Good question:

What exactly does a page do (officially, that is)?

What IS a "page"?


59 posted on 10/02/2006 2:44:28 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: onyx

Bump. Good observation.

Sex positive teachers also are encouraging discussions of masturbation and sexual experimentation at all ages.

The left is just smiling with glee over what they percive to be hypocrisy. They could care less about morals.

Ever see a lib denounce the legacy of Allen Ginsberg?


60 posted on 10/02/2006 2:45:51 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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