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Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago
Yahooooo News ^ | 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.
1 posted on 10/04/2006 1:08:03 PM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone

Book deal going on now!!


2 posted on 10/04/2006 1:09:47 PM PDT by mmyers
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To: mmyers

Oh what a tangled web we weave!


3 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)
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To: areafiftyone

DON'T BELIEVE IT!!! Fordham is gay and working with the Dems!!


4 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.)
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To: Suzy Quzy

You betcha he is!


5 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)
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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.


6 posted on 10/04/2006 1:11:15 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: areafiftyone

I'm having a hard time buying this guy's line. Didn't this Roger's guy threaten Fordham also?


7 posted on 10/04/2006 1:11:47 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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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

8 posted on 10/04/2006 1:11:50 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
I am getting more and more confused here! SmileyCentral.com
9 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)
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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.


10 posted on 10/04/2006 1:12:48 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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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.


11 posted on 10/04/2006 1:12:55 PM PDT by Bahbah (Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
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To: Howlin; onyx; Mo1; Dane

Pingeth.


12 posted on 10/04/2006 1:13:31 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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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".


13 posted on 10/04/2006 1:13:44 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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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?


14 posted on 10/04/2006 1:15:02 PM PDT by KJC1
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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.


15 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)
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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.


16 posted on 10/04/2006 1:15:12 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: areafiftyone

Me too-bump to save my spot.


17 posted on 10/04/2006 1:15:22 PM PDT by fatima (Go Eagles.)
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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.
18 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.)
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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.

19 posted on 10/04/2006 1:15:59 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: areafiftyone
Does Fordham, er, play for the other team?
20 posted on 10/04/2006 1:16:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Who you gonna call?)
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