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To: TexKat

And, what about gay Boy Scout troup leaders?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15214639/

Rep. Kolbe visited Grand Canyon with pages
Park Service workers, office staffers accompanied group during 1996 trip

By Jim Popkin and Aram Roston
NBC News
Updated: 4:22 a.m. CT Oct 11, 2006

WASHINGTON - Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) took two male pages with him on a three-day camping trip in 1996, former congressional pages and National Park Service officials have told NBC News.

The pages, who were 17 at the time, went rafting and camping with Kolbe in the Grand Canyon over the July 4th holiday that year.

A spokeswoman for Kolbe confirmed the overnight trip but said that the pages did not travel alone with Kolbe.

The congressman's sister, along with office staffers and several Park Service employees, traveled with Kolbe and the pages, Kolbe spokeswoman Korenna Cline said.

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71 posted on 10/12/2006 12:07:35 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief; windchime; Suzy Quzy
Foley says White House snubbed him

Foley says White House snubbed him

Reuters Thursday, October 12, 2006; 4:52 PM

MIAMI (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley complained to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush two years ago that the White House snubbed him during presidential visits to the state, according to e-mails obtained by the Palm Beach Post.

(http://www.palmbeachpost.com) on Thursday, Foley asked the

"Have I done something to offend the White House? ... I am always getting the shaft," Foley wrote to Gov. Bush on September 29, 2004.

The Republican former congressman said in that message he had not been allowed to accompany the president on post-hurricane visits to Foley's district in Florida, although other local lawmakers had been invited.

"I can't quite figure what I have done, but this is a continuing pattern of slights. ... I have constantly put the president in the best possible light," Foley wrote to the governor.

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78 posted on 10/12/2006 3:16:28 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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