If anybody saw an email, text message or IM from Foley which mentioned anything near 'what are you wearing?' then they should have immediately pulled him in and told him he needs to resign before they out him themselves. This is a safe GOP district as long as we don't have a queer pedophile (express the possible redundancy) as a candidate. Its incredibly transparent that any delays in dumping this predator were political calculations about keeping the House majority.
That was my first thought, but then I wondered: does that really make sense?
This is a safe district. Given enough time, as opposed to now, it would have been relatively easy to come up with a winning Republican candidate.
Hastert doesn't seem stupid enough to believe that something like this would not be exposed close to Election Day, leaving him/his party holding the bag.
All I can see from this article is that the initial reports were only about the page upset about Foley asking him for a photo, Foley gave them the spiel about needing a photo on file (which, early on, even many here on FR were arguing was more than plausible), and the leadership thought that was the end of it.
I understand that AZ has a homosexual in the House, but he is above board about it.