Is Gay Activist Michael Rogers Behind The Foley “Outing”?

Sweetness & Light ^ | October 3, 2006 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

From the gay advocacy giveaway, the Washington (DC) Blade:

Blade Caption: Florida Congressman Mark Foley (R) has vowed to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment, but gay activist John Aravosis said he decided to out the congressman anyway because Foley supports the re-election of President Bush.

Mikulski and Foley become newest congressional targets as FMA vote nears

By ADRIAN BRUNE
Friday, July 09, 2004

... Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, [are] the two men loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill. As the date nears for a Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would ban gay marriages in the Constitution, Rogers said the outings have picked up steam — from 13 documented offices to nearly 20 currently on a target list provided by Rogers to the Blade.

In addition to Tolman, Rogers and Aravosis, working in tandem but not together, claimed in the last week to have outed via the Web Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida...

A spokesperson for Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) also declined to comment after Aravosis specifically asserted that Foley is gay on his Web site last week...

Aravosis continued to defend the outing campaign.

“An acquaintance of mine, a Southern Republican, worked for a member who was not anti-gay personally, but he signed on to the amendment [banning gay marriage],” Aravosis said. “My friend quit. I’m basically saying, ‘You know what, you have a choice. It’s 2004. You can work for pro-gay Democrats, and now you can work for pro-gay Republicans.’” ...

Over in the House, Republican Mark Foley said in March that he would vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment — one week after his spokesperson said he would not take a position on the measure until it came up for a House vote.

Despite Foley’s FMA opposition, Aravosis purported to out Foley as well, taking him to task for supporting President Bush, who endorsed the measure late last winter. Labeling Foley as “our latest closeted gay hypocrite,” Aravosis said Foley made the list for putting politics ahead of his own community by “whoring for an anti-gay president.” ...

Florida Congressman Mark Foley (R) has vowed to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment, but gay activist John Aravosis said he decided to out the congressman anyway because Foley supports the re-election of President Bush.

Foley responded to the reports by initiating a telephone press conference among non-gay Florida media and called discussion about his sexual orientation “revolting.” He declined at that time to answer questions about his sexual orientation and subsequently abandoned his bid for the Senate, citing concerns over his father’s health.

Aravosis said he obtained the latest information about the five-term congressman from Foley’s former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham.

Fordham, who is gay, headed up fund-raising efforts for Foley’s aborted Senate campaign and is now the finance director for one of the remaining GOP primary candidates in that race: Mel Martinez, George W. Bush’s former Housing & Urban Development secretary. Martinez has come out in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment.

Fordham denied ever speaking with Aravosis and told the Blade, “I just don’t discuss Congressman Foley’s personal life with reporters, but I’m not sure what their motive is in outing him, other than to draw attention to themselves. Foley has a good track record with gay issues and opposes the FMA.” ...

It seems very probable that one or all of the gentlemen mentioned in this article have had a hand in the recent revelations about Mark Foley.

It is equally likely that one or all of them is behind the anonymous website, StopSexPredators.blogspot.com, that first produced Foley's alleged emails out of the blue.

Michael Rogers started his own website, blogactive.com, back in July of 2004.

Oddly enough, there was a significant drop-off in his activities there after July of this year, which is when StopSexPredators.blogspot.com was begun.

From Alexa:

 

 

In his latest post at Blogactive Michael Rogers shows he has to Mark Foley's IM account:

A word of advice...

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Mark, when the entire nation learns your AOL chat name because you hit on underage kids, it's time to block others from seeing you online:

And here is an earlier entry from Mr. Rogers:

Good news... Bad news...

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Well the good news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is finally getting it. I called their Director of Communications, Bill Burton, before the Foley story broke to let him know about Foley (and another case) were coming down the pike. While Burton promised to have someone email or return my call and didn't, I am glad he followed up on my call and was ready on Friday to come out of the gate running.

The bad new is they are still not paying enough attention... There are others within reach... If the Democrats would only fight half as hard as the Republicans.

I posted comments at the DCCC website on the Foley entry. Not only do their promises of returned calls and emails never come to fruition, but now they are deleting my comments from their blog, The Stakeholder.

Luckily the comments were cached before they axed them.

Here's the one I put up at 9:55pm:

Here's the one I put up at 10:02pm:

Well, at least they are paying attention.

It appears that Mr. Rogers is bragging about his coup.

And how telling it is that the Stakeholder, the homepage of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) would delete his posts.

[Mo1]

I don't recall them saying who .. just that they want an independent investigation

[RegulatorCountry]

Senator? Well, there's been sufficient gossip to pretty well determine who THAT might be, lol. Wonder why they're all RINO's? /sarc

[Xenalyte]

Smoke, fire.

If there weren't something to the accusations, Foley wouldn't have resigned.

Do I think it's oddly timed? Maybe.

Do I think people who would proposition the underage should be in positions of trust? Never.

[Howlin]

Says who?

[Xenalyte]

[NeoCaveman]

Senator? Well, there's been sufficient gossip to pretty well determine who THAT might be, lol. Wonder why they're all RINO's? /sarc

Why golly, I have no idear who it could pawsibly be (/sarc)

[bornagainlurker]

let me get this OUT OF THE WAY-yes, i finally registered today after years of lurking-am not a bushbot or repubbie koolaid drinker but I am very conservative in my person and my fiscal outlook. i have voted always for the best person who i believe represents my conservative values. Whew!
I am in S Fl and some currents are floating by concerning Foley and who has protected him -here in FL.I am disturbed by what I am hearing and reading. Went to a site called "waynemadsenreports.(sorry, i don't know how to add an address yet)and am concerned about this Foley thing wrapping up other state officials running for offices, esp. Crist, who i think is terrific-he was everywhere after last 4 hurricanes and helped alot of people(not me)
Check it out and see if you think FL politics could be compromised by this Foley mess.

[TommyDale]

yup.

[debg]

From Mike Rogers site, it's one of these:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Robert F. Bennett (R-UT)
Christopher S. Bond (R-MO)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Norm Coleman (R-MN)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Larry E. Craig (R-ID)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
Michael B. Enzi (R-WY)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
James M. Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Mel Martinez (R-FL)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
Gordon H. Smith (R-OR)
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
John E. Sununu (R-NH)
John Thune (R-SD)
David Vitter (R-LA)
George V. Voinovich (R-OH)

http://web.archive.org/web/20061003204037/http://www.blogactive.com/2006_04_01_blogactive_archive.html

[TommyDale]

"Mike Rogers has written that another Rep Senator will be outed but he doesn't indicate which election cycle."

Lindsay "Light in the Loafers"?

[dmw]

Well that narrows it down quite a bit, doesn't it?

[Republican Red]

http://www.strata-sphere.com/blog/

Mike Rogers Predicted Foley Smear March 2005

Posted by AJStrata on October 3rd, 2006
I had not gone back far enough in my review of Mike Rogers’ website archives it seems. Reader SBD went back a few months more to February 2005 and found Mike Rogers predicting the events of this week.

A source has confirmed with blogACTIVE.com that Foley lives a practically an out life at his Florida residence, often seen entertaining gay men, some of whom the source described as “close to underage.”

“Well entertaining men does not make someone gay,” I said. “Mike, please, I lived across from his house, I watch his parties, he’s gay, gay, gay.” Since I know the source and his work in the community quite well, I am going to give him full faith.

Another source has told me about his being approached on two occasions in what was “definitely an approach in a sexual way,” a 27 year-old man told me. “Once it was at a large poltiical event and once at a party in Florida.”

I’ve thought hard about what kind of TAKE ACTION would work, but there is really is none right now. Everyone already knows Foley’s a self hating closet case. When we get closer to the mid-term elections, I am sure more will surface.

The next question is what kind of relationship did Mike Rogers and Brian Ross have? Who knows. But I find it interesting that Michael Rogers admits his reporting on Foley began the same year as the salacious IM messages coming out of ABCNews - 2003:

“I first started to report on Foley in March 2003,” said Rogers, who is gay. “The reason why - he’s antigay.

Why all these coincidences? Here is another later post on Foley by Rogers with interesting hints and leads.

[Prokopton]

This seems counterintuitive. The one group definitely looking bad to the general public because of the Foley affair is gays. If you want people to vote against an anti-gay marriage amendment you certainly wouldn't want to associate gays with child abuse.

[TommyDale]

"ALL IM's can be retrieved?"

Yes, but there must be a court order to obtain them from the ISP servers. Unless someone is accused of breaking the law, there would be no need to acquire the IMs. Now if a person has an enemy, and that enemy wants to set them up, they could certainly keep a log of the conversations.

[billhilly]

I, and all of Washington have known about Mikulski for 30 years, so If this gay guy thinks he is breaking ground by listing her as outed he is only doing so to show "balance" knowing that she is and always has been safe.

[TruBluKentuckian]

Don't believe anything you read on Madsens' site, he's a total nutcase and makes things up.

[TXnMA]

Foley supports the re-election of President Bush.

"It seems kind of suspicious"

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Suspicious? Hmmmm... What's wrong with this picture...?

[sgtbono2002]

Outing Barbara Mikulski is no big deal, Most everyone in Maryland knows the Midget is queer.

[veronica]

If there is a backstory, it's sure to be revealed.

[dc-zoo]

Brownback Mountain?