Mark Foley Investigation

"... I am always getting the shaft,"

He's complaining?

Series ...

Smells like a setup, IMO.

81 posted on 10/12/2006 3:34:46 PM PDT by maggief

Former Foley aide mum after questioning

(Capitol Hill-AP) October 12, 2006 - After five hours of closed-door questioning on Capitol Hill, Mark Foley's former chief of staff had nothing to say to waiting reporters.

Kirk Fordham left it to his lawyer to talk. The attorney said only that his client was "truthful and cooperative" with the House ethics committee, and was asked not to make any comments.

Fordham has claimed that at least three, maybe four years ago, he sounded the alarm about the now-former congressman. Fordham says back then, he let his counterpart in House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office know there were complaints about Foley's conduct toward male congressional pages.

Hastert's chief of staff disputes that, and the speaker's office says it was last fall when they were first told about Foley.

Friday, the committee hears from Congressman John Shimkus, who heads the page board.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5532880

82 posted on 10/12/2006 3:51:17 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

Ex-congressional aide Kirk Fordham (C) walks with his lawyer Tim Heaphy (L) to a taxi as the media trail them on Capitol Hill in Washington October 12, 2006. Fordham, who once served as disgraced congressmen Mark Foley's chief of staff, testified at a House Committee on Standards of Official conduct panel for more than four hours under oath, about Foley's inappropriate behavior with congressional pages and that the warnings came much earlier than Republican leaders have reported. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)

Ex-congressional aide Kirk Fordham leaves Capitol Hill in a taxi after testifying at a Committee on Standards of Official Conduct panel in Washington October 12, 2006. Fordham, who once served as disgraced congressmen Mark Foley's chief of staff, testified for more than four hours under oath that he warned more than one congressional official several times about Foley's inappropriate behavior with congressional pages and that the warnings came much earlier than Republican leaders have reported. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)

83 posted on 10/12/2006 3:55:24 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

Polls: Foley Debacle Has No Impact on Partisan Affiliation rasmussenreports.com

Thu Oct 12, 9:36 AM ET

Rasmussen Reports survey data shows that the story surrounding former Congressman Mark Foley has had little or no impact on partisan identification among the general public. Also, there is no data to support the expectation voiced by some that the Foley matter would reduce Evangelical Christian support for GOP candidates.

Each month, Rasmussen Reports issues data on party affiliation trends based upon interviews with 15,000 adults nationwide. In September, the results showed that 37.0% of Americans considered themselves Democrats and 32.3% were Republicans.

Over the seven days ending October 11, a period that is entirely within the post-Foley era, we interviewed 3,500 adults nationwide as part of the same tracking survey. The post-Foley results show Democrats at 37.5% and Republicans at 32.4%

It is important to keep this lack of change in perspective. The numbers were bad for the GOP before Foley-two years ago, in September 2004, Republicans and Democrats were virtually even in terms of partisan identification among the public. So, while things haven't gotten worse over the past week, Republicans remain in a far weaker position than they were during Election 2004.

On the subject of Evangelical Christians, data from our last 15 statewide election surveys shows no clear trend. It is difficult to reach any firm conclusions because sample sizes are so small. For example, if Evangelical Christians represent 20% of the voters in a given state, that would mean only 100 respondents in a survey of 500 Likely Voters. With only 100 respondents the margin of sampling error is +/- 10 percentage points. Some states have even smaller percentages of Evangelical Christians.

However, if there was strong movement away from Republicans among Evangelicals, we might expect to see consistent movement across a range of 15 surveys. Instead, we found eight races in which the GOP candidates increased their support among Evangelicals and seven races in which the reported support declined. While far from conclusive, this suggests limited if any movement as a result of the Foley fall-out.

There may be other impacts from the Foley matter that have a negative impact on the GOP. It is possible, for example, that some unaffiliated voters will be more likely to consider a Democratic candidate than they were before. It is also possible, however, that the biggest impact has been to cost the Republicans valuable time. The Republicans were trailing in this election long before the Foley debacle and needed time to re-frame the debate and attempt a comeback. Foley cost them at least 10 days out of the final five weeks of the campaign.

Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20061012/pl_rasmussen/evangelicals20061012_1

84 posted on 10/12/2006 4:02:10 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

After the GOP has cleansed themselves of everyone involved in this , they will be accused of Gay Bashing.

Speaking of a man I can't tolerate anymore ... JOE SCARBOROUGH."MSNBC is now so far left that Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, did a show on whether President Bush is an idiot. His liberal bosses must have liked it." Tonight, you should have heard him rant about Hastard and the GOP. He makes me SICK! (I feel better now)

85 posted on 10/12/2006 4:04:19 PM PDT by caffe (W)

Scarborough hasn;t been the same since the dead girl was found in his office and his good friend Gary CONDIT got into intern problems.

86 posted on 10/12/2006 4:07:38 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)

I get the unscientific feeling that the Foley mess has just added more of us to the "Crawl on broken glass to vote Republican" category.

87 posted on 10/12/2006 4:07:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)

88 posted on 10/12/2006 4:14:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)

89 posted on 10/12/2006 4:15:29 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

90 posted on 10/12/2006 4:16:15 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

Can somebody investigate if there are any straight men who have been pages?

It seems that the "recruiting" program seems to focus not at all on politics, but other...considerations.

91 posted on 10/12/2006 4:17:45 PM PDT by AmishDude (Mwahahahahahahahaha -- official evil laugh of the North American Union)

Pat forgot to mention that the Democrats want GAY Boy Scout LEADERS!!! GAY MEN IN CHARGE OF BOYS!!!

92 posted on 10/12/2006 4:22:35 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)

This is truly an eyeopener for some of us AmishDude.

93 posted on 10/12/2006 4:35:30 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)

Interesting....got some contacts down at UT....let me see what I can find out later.

Instincts tell me they are throwing stuff up against the wall at this point so we will follow whatever is tossed. Don't take the bait.

Keep your eyes on the 'principle actors' folks...and it is not Soros & Co. at this point.

Sure would be interesting though to find out what lobbying group this kid is tied to........

94 posted on 10/12/2006 5:24:22 PM PDT by penelopesire

To: TexKat; penelopesire; maggief

Foleygate Is A Totally Gay Affair

An interesting tidbit:

Gay John Arovosis and a group of Lefty bloggers (some of whom were probably gay also) recently had lunch with former President Bill Clinton in New York City.

95 posted on 10/12/2006 7:09:23 PM PDT by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The idiot Dems, Rogers, and the MSM overplayed this whole FOLEY thing.

With crazy Kim threatening to now NUKE us, very few people care about Foley now. The man quit, he's gone, and that defused the situation.

96 posted on 10/12/2006 7:52:40 PM PDT by nopardons

Good catch and thanks for the link.

97 posted on 10/12/2006 7:54:15 PM PDT by nopardons

Far too many of these types now crawling out from under rocks!

Why didn't any of them complain, when these things happened? I'm just NOT buying all of these me tooers' stories.

98 posted on 10/12/2006 7:58:33 PM PDT by nopardons

99 posted on 10/12/2006 8:04:56 PM PDT by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)

100 posted on 10/12/2006 8:05:56 PM PDT by nopardons

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