Istook campaign employee and former page retains attorney Associated Press(AP article)

AP, Ft. Wayne.com ^ | October 5, 2006

[Dane]

Why would a 21 year old need a defense attorney, especially such a high profile and expensive one as Stephen Jones.

[trashcanbred]

Dang good question... When someone lawyers up this quick, it is real suspicious.

[Darkwolf377]

One word: Soros

This story is going to get bigger, but the Dems will suddenly start saying "We should be talking about what really matters to the American people..." Yes, the DEMS will be saying that.

I smell ABC's version of Rathergate.

[Tax-chick]

Having such a young and inexperienced staffer at a high level of his campaign does not speak well for Istook's chances in the election, in my opinion.

[MizSterious]

FYI

[Miss Marple]

More information on this story which PhiKapMom posted last night.

[kjam22]

Istook is actually running a worse campaign than Largent ran.... and I didn't think that was possible.

[Dave S]

When someone lawyers up this quick, it is real suspicious

Not really. These days only a fool would go before the House Ethics Committee or any other investigative body during a political season feeding frenzy.

[TommyDale]

Perhaps he needs an attorney because he divulged contents of private messages between two people without the consent of the other person (Foley)?

Someone, somewhere needs to explain how ABC and the DNCC obtained these IM logs and emails. This is a violation of Mark Foley's privacy rights, even if he is a pervert. Laws were broken, and it wasn't just Foley who broke them.

[Tax-chick]

What is it with these guys? They're good enough legislators, but why would they even enter the primary for Governor if they don't want to run?

[TommyDale]

"Istook is actually running a worse campaign than Largent ran.... and I didn't think that was possible."

One must wonder why Istook would hire a Democrat from Berkeley , California to work on his campaign. I suspect a DemocRAT operative within the Istook campaign. Oklahoma Republican voters will not like hearing this news.

[kjam22]

I don't know. You know.... Istook ran virtually un-opposed his last couple of times in congress. His district was so gerrymandered that he was unbeatable. I don't think he knows how to run a statewide campaign.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Why would a 21 year old need a defense attorney, especially such a high profile and expensive one as Stephen Jones.

My guess on this one is that, when all the dirty laundry is laid out for inspection, Foley's plump boy will turn out to be a paid political assassin with connections to highly placed DemonRATS in the Congress.

As my grandmother used to say, "The more you stir it the worse it smells."

[kjam22]

You know.... I'm not alledging anything here.... but a lot of people have had some "wonderings" about Istook. Orientation. Now we find out he has a gay campaign manager from California. Again... I'm not alledging anything. But a lot of people are going to look twice at this.

[Tax-chick]

Good point. Even so, it can't be that hard to run for governor of Oklahoma, if Keating managed it :-).

[kjam22]

LOL

[SelmaLee]

My own grandmother used to use that exact expression.
I also like another one of hers: "If you mess with --it, you're going to get some on you".
Both expressions are equally true - and probably true in this guy's case.

[buck61]

I think this hiding a young persons identity is a bunch of BS.
If a person is going to send me to prison in a court of law, that person needs to be profiled as much as myself.

I am glad there are some here on FR who are doing much research on this Foley story and, well deserved.

The Democrats are very shrewed at behind the seen schemes to damage the GOP. From what I am reading there is more to this story than the public will ever know and, there will be a Democrat link to this headline.

[reformedliberal]

During the 2004 campaign, all the Party staffers both here in SW WI and the ones who came in in the final week from DC, were at the most 23 and many were younger.

They were well-trained. Most are poli-sci majors. However, my impression was that while they had the GOTV plan down pat, they were not capable of improvising and actually seemed adverse to doing so.

It is a job with long hours that requires an almost constantly high level of visible enthusiasm. I think they need to be young. From the little I saw of the donk staffers, they were all the same age as ours.


OTOH, all of the people affiliated with the WH itself were 40 or older.

[daybreakcoming]

I always heard that you should consider once something enters public cyberspace - anything that you write via the internet could be front page news tomorrow. Certainly true in this case, eh?