This is Fordham. He's a gay man who was Foley's chief of staff for a while. He moved to Reynold's staff.
His involvement in the Foley incident is threefold. First, he was Foley's chief of staff during the incidents.
Second, he was the one who apparently convinced the republicans NOT to involve the entire Page oversight board in the review of the first e-mail. This was the critical error -- if the entire board had reviewed and handled the e-mail, the democrats would have NOTHING to say, since the board includes a democrat.
Third, he was the one who tried to bargain with ABC NOT to publish the IM messages. This wasn't itself a bad thing, EXCEPT that it was reported that he tried to COVER UP the existance of the IM messages, which looks bad.
So for those reasons, this is a good resignation. I still say Shimkus should be removed from the Page board for going along and not letting the whole page board handle the e-mail incident.
I'm reserving judgment on Hastert, although he screwed up by saying he had never seen or heard of the e-mails on Friday, when two other congressmen say they specifically talked to him about the e-mails. It made him look like he was denying taking care of this, and when the truth came out the truth was OK but looked like a coverup.
Good info, thanks for reporting this.
Great post, were did you get it from?
Unless I see absolute proof from the lefties, or anyone else for that matter, that Hastert knew about the full content of any emails sent by Foley, then I, or anyone else, should reserve their judgment of Hastert and believe what he has said. Right now, all I see is Democrat hypocrisy and disgruntled ex-Republican employees making accusations. And accusations are as good as the paper their written on.
Fordham used to work for Sen. Mel Martinez who I do not care for.