[madprof98]

YOU are assuming that other Congressmen knew about these sleazy IMs and that has not been proven.

No, I am assuming that other Congressmen knew that Foley was the sort of person who would write such e-mails. Evidently the pages who were involved in the "prank" knew that. Surely the man's colleagues knew it as well.

[tioga]

WELL, why don't you ask them if he ever IMed them with comments like "I am wearing boxers, what are YOU wearing?" I suspect a grown man in Congress would have set him straight right away. I doubt even Mark Foley would be that dumb. He preyed on the young ones, and since none have come foreward to add their two cents I can assume that it didn't happen. Has even ONE page come forward and said I TOLD another Congressman that he did this. No. I think this hoopla is phoney and doesn't quite pass the smell test. Could it be coming? Maybe. I will wait it out.

[maryz]

Evidently the pages who were involved in the "prank" knew that. Surely the man's colleagues knew it as well.

Sounds like a big jump from pages to assume colleagues knew. His colleagues probably knew (if they thought about it all) that he was gay, but apparently he had an adult "partner" -- per Howie Carr reading from the New York Daily News, a dermatologist or something.

And except for the former page that received the 2005 emails, I've seen nothing to suggest that any of the pages reported anything to anyone in authority -- just in typical adolescent fashion snickered about it themselves.