I can't believe that newspaper didn't go with it.
Much better to hold it until it is almost impossible for the GOP to field a replacement candidate.
Someone mentioned earlier that the Palm Beach Post ran the e-mail story a year ago. There wasn't a link, just that statement.
I'll look for it.
From today's St. Petersburg Times:
St. Petersburg Times reporters obtained the original e-mails last fall and interviewed two former pages, but didn't write a story. The 16-year-old boy did not want to be named. The other boy, who was willing to be named, said Foley hadn't done anything inappropriate. It's a Times policy not to make accusations in stories based on unnamed sources.
SNIP
As a member of Congress, Foley was gregarious and charming and befriended the pages, the teen-agers who serve as the Capitol's official messengers.
"I was told by a few interns to be careful about Foley," Will Humble of California, a 2005 page, told the Times last year.
But Humble, who received some personal e-mails from Foley after he left Washington, said he never saw inappropriate behavior from the congressman.
"A congressman e-mailing a 17-year-old after leaving the Hill is not normal, but if it's in a friendly situation it doesn't really matter," Humble told the Times last year. "If it was 'Send me a picture,' I would be a little suspicious."