Posted on 10/07/2006 6:30:38 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
(CNN) -- The head of the Republican House campaign committee apologized Saturday for not catching Rep. Mark Foley in alleged lies about his Internet exchanges with teen pages.
Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-New York, issued the apology in a TV commercial aired in his Buffalo-area district.
He also reiterated his assertion that he told House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, about Foley's behavior in the spring.
"I trusted that others had investigated. Looking back, more should have been done, and for that, I'm sorry," Reynolds said.
"I was told about odd but not explicit e-mails between Mark Foley and a page," he said. "I never saw a single e-mail, not one. Even so, I reported what I had been told to the speaker of the House.
"At the time, I thought I had done the right thing. I have since learned that newspapers in Florida and the FBI had copies of the e-mails for months and that Foley had been confronted about them and lied," Reynolds said.
"Nobody's angrier and more disappointed than me that I didn't catch his lies," he said
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Stop digging.
Here's a little-covered story. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715512/posts "One of Fortune's friends had dinner and spent the night at a congresswoman's house. He said this wasn't uncommon." and "Leider, who never heard rumors about former Rep. Mark Foley, said it's normal for congressmen to send e-mails to former pages. Leider said he and his brother Robert, 25, who was a page in 1999, keep a running friendship with Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz." Don't know if it's normal, but just like teachers & professors, many befriend former students, perfectly innocent. Reynolds is really being annoying. Hastert has not been a good PR person for himself, but I really don't understand what he could have done. There was no there there before the IMs. They were dealt with, and there is NO INDICATION of further complaints of anything after that, but before ABC broke the scandal.
The other thing- they told Foley to stop. He did. Nothing I have seen happened after the 2005 IMs, which may have been a prank. The emails were to the LA kid (After Katrina), the IMs were to Jordan, an OK/CA kid (2003).
Well, it's not giving us in the conservative ranks a warm fuzzie feeling.
No.
It's much more a problem only within Washington D.C. than any where else.
Anyone with an ounce of decency and sense would have told Foley to go ahead and leave.
Ok, Reynolds did what he had to do. Now "move on!" as the other side is so fond of saying. Get to the issues that are really important.
No. The MSM and the dems are falling all over themselves because they have a gay Republican who sent dirty IMs in their sights, and their attention has been diverted from their real problems so they're trying to divert ours. They think they're making progress with the family values crowd, but because Foley has retired and made all the usual excuses ("I'm an alcoholic, I was abused, I'm gay and can't control myself, blah, blah"), most Republicans have shaken their heads about it, and moved on to their real lives.
I don't understand what Hastert (and I have plenty of problems with Hastert, believe me!) and the other Republicans could have done after they told him to quit it. It appears he did - I don't think there were any dirty IMs after 2005 - and I don't know what they could have done to him after that. After all, the dems are the ones now claiming Hastert et al. should have read all of Foley's mail when they're the same ones who claim we can't scan the phone numbers of known and suspected terrorists. Pure political cr*p. Bah.
bottom line is that the homosexual staffers which are predominatly democrats, the homosexual reporters ALL apparently KNEW he was a homosexual and did not out him.
The homosexuals of capitol hill are the ones who truly are responsible for this going on for years.
It seems the deomcrats hacked just fine.
Let's see, we have tons of stuff happening in Iraq, Iran is about to be sanctioned for their insistance on enriching uranium and North Korea is likely going to be testing their nukes again possibly tomorrow...but yet, the LOSER, tabloid style MSM is still talking about an ex congressman that never had actual sex with anyone. What's wrong with this picture?
bottom line is that the homosexual staffers which are predominatly democrats, the homosexual reporters ALL apparently KNEW he was a homosexual and did not out him. The homosexuals of capitol hill are the ones who truly are responsible for this going on for years.
No, Foley is the one responsible for his actions.
at some point negligence does become culpable.
the negligence of those homosexuals who saw it with their own eyes is very culpable.
Foley is guilty by his own admission, the culpability of those homosexuals who were in the lifestyle with foley are guilty of a seperate and henious crime.
What if it turns out the only IM's found was between Foley and an 18 year old former page?
Then Foley is still responsible for his actions, and was foolish to drop out of the race.
at some point negligence does become culpable. the negligence of those homosexuals who saw it with their own eyes is very culpable. Foley is guilty by his own admission, the culpability of those homosexuals who were in the lifestyle with foley are guilty of a seperate and henious crime.
What are you saying the homosexuals saw "with their own eyes" that makes them culpable? If it's Foley's homosexuality, that's not a crime. If it's Foley's behavior with pages, they would have to know that he did something criminal, like sex with an underage page.
I agree absolutely that something should have been done to put a stop to it, the question is what. If they indeed went to Hastert's chief of staff with it, then what else do you want them to do? Shoot Foley?
Of course they could have gone straight to the media, but that's not a solution I would have suggested to them.
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