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Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago
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| 10/4/06
Posted on 10/04/2006 1:08:03 PM PDT by areafiftyone
WASHINGTON - A senior congressional aide said Wednesday that he alerted House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office two years ago about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages.
Kirk Fordham told The Associated Press that when he was told about Foley's inappropriate behavior toward pages, he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene."
The conversations took place long before the e-mail scandal broke, Fordham said, and at least a year earlier than members of the House GOP leadership have acknowledged.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foley; hastert
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Boy that didn't take long did it? Fordham just resigned and is now yapping away to the press instead of the FBI.
To: areafiftyone
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:09:47 PM PDT
by
mmyers
To: mmyers
Oh what a tangled web we weave!
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:10:34 PM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
To: areafiftyone
DON'T BELIEVE IT!!! Fordham is gay and working with the Dems!!
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:10:38 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: Suzy Quzy
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:10:59 PM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
To: areafiftyone
If true, Hastert is done. Plain and simple. If Hastert's office was told 1 year before hand that the pages were getting creeped out, did nothing, then was told 11 months ago, that Foley was still creeping out the pages with his email and did nothing, Hastert deserves to go. This changes the story alot. Again, if this is true.
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:11:15 PM PDT
by
dogbyte12
To: areafiftyone
I'm having a hard time buying this guy's line. Didn't this Roger's guy threaten Fordham also?
To: areafiftyone
Those sources said Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, had urged Republican leaders last spring not to raise questionable Foley e-mails with the full Congressional Page Board, made up of two Republicans and a Democrat."He [FORDHAM] begged them not to tell the page board," said one of the Republican sources.
Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal
To: PajamaTruthMafia
I am getting more and more confused here!
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:12:43 PM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
To: Suzy Quzy
Fordham is gay, and was Foley's chief of staff for 10 years. Then went to work for Tom Reynolds the head of the congressional campaign committee. If he is working for the democrats, whose fault is that exactly?
This actually is potentially the worst thing out there. Period. 2 years ago there were warnings and nothing was done. That is inexcusable again if true.
To: areafiftyone
Boy oh boy, just as soon as they began to sense that their first ploy to get Hastert wasn't working very well, they pull this rabbit out of their hats. Watch for what organization Fordham lands a position with.
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:12:55 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
To: Howlin; onyx; Mo1; Dane
To: areafiftyone
Yawn, sour grapes by someone who I read on another thread on FR that Fordham is a source for the homosexual magazine "Advocate".
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:13:44 PM PDT
by
Dane
("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
To: areafiftyone
What exactly does he mean by "worrisome?"
Are we seeing the birth of another set of confusing word games, like emails versus IMs?
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:15:02 PM PDT
by
KJC1
To: Dane
It may be a yawn now but this can screw us up in the elections if none of this stuff about him hits the MSM. The American public doesn't know about him only what they read in the MSM.
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:15:11 PM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
To: areafiftyone
What's up with Drudge? He's got this story splashed across the headlines in red print. I think he's slowly going over to the dark side.
To: areafiftyone
Me too-bump to save my spot.
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:15:22 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Go Eagles.)
To: areafiftyone
I must go on record and say that if this is true, then Hastert is a POS and in the same slimy class as Foley.
The Republican higher ups better do what's right to show the rest of the country that the GOP will not accept scoundrels in it's ranks. Expel the both of them.
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:15:55 PM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: dogbyte12
If true, Hastert is done. Plain and simple. Again you jump to wild conclusions, relying on the liberal MSM.
BTW, doggie do you work for the "Advocate" as Fordham apparently does.
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:15:59 PM PDT
by
Dane
("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
To: areafiftyone
Does Fordham, er, play for the other team?
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:16:29 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Who you gonna call?)
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