Posted on 10/04/2006 8:39:44 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
A former U.S. House page working on the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Rep. Ernest Istook may be a part of the scandal involving former Congressman Mark Foley, The Oklahoman has learned.
The former page, a Californian named Jordan Edmund, on Wednesday hired Enid attorney Stephen Jones to represent him, the attorney confirmed.
Jones would not say exactly why he was hired, but did say, “I understand the FBI and the House Ethics committee have an interest in the matter ... the allegations concerning Congressman Foley which have surfaced.”
Foley, a Republican from Florida, resigned abruptly on Friday after it was learned that he exchanged sexually explicit e-mails with former pages. The FBI is investigating.
Istook’s campaign manager, Chip Englander, who is also from California, declined comment Wednesday to an Oklahoman reporter.
However, Englander gave The Oklahoman a statement that was attributed to Istook.
The statement says, “The sad and sick behavior of Mark Foley was a total surprise to me when it was revealed. Law enforcement is doing its job, and I support that effort. Now we should all support and protect the victims, and they should not be hounded by the press.
“It was a complete surprise to learn this morning that one victim may be someone I know. Each one of the victims deserves their privacy. To every reporter I request, please have the decency to avoid making things worse for the victims, and just leave them alone. This happened years ago when the victims were minors.”
Reached at his home, Istook referred to the prepared statement.
Edmund’s name surfaced on Internet “blogs” that linked him to the instant message address used in communications with Foley.
One blogger got the instant message address from the Web site of ABC News, which has obtained the instant messages sent between Foley and a former page.
In the sequence of messages identified by the blogger, Foley tells the person to “strip down and get relaxed.”
It is not clear whether Foley’s other instant messages, including one in which he apparently conducted “instant message” sex with a person, were all to the same person.
Asked why Edmund needed an attorney, Jones said, “You read the blogs. You know why he needs an attorney.”
Jones, who represented Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in his murder trial in Denver, confirmed Edmund was a U.S. House page.
“I’ve been retained in the last several hours,” Jones said. “I’m still reviewing matters.”
Jones said the two met Wednesday in Oklahoma City.
Edmund had an Internet page on the popular MySpace Web site.
On that page, he identified himself as being 21 years old and said he had been attending college at the University of California at Berkeley. He said he was going to Oklahoma to be deputy campaign manager for Istook’s gubernatorial effort, the Web site stated.
Edmund registered to vote in Oklahoma in March, records show.
The House Ethics Committee is scheduled to hold a closed-door meeting this morning about the Foley matter.
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, one of the 10 members of the committee, flew back to Washington on Wednesday for what he called an “emergency meeting.”
He said the committee today would not hear from witnesses but would set the parameters of the investigation.
Contributing: Staff Writers Joe Wertz, Bryan Dean, Jennifer Mock and Ryan McNeill
Copyright 2006
I was talking to a good friend when I read the headlines on here about the page being outed and clicked on it and then saw Jordan's picture -- I almost dropped the phone. What are the chances of a page who outed Foley with the IM's being the assitant campaign manager to our Governor's candidate and a lot of us having negative dealings with him? I would say slim to none, but it is true!
J, MO but it is beginning to look like Mr. Istook is being blackmailed.
I am beginning to think the same thing after all of this because 2+2 does not add up. There is a lot of dirt out there that has been sent to my email for months and months.
Now I am beginning to wonder if there is a lot more because what I received made me go over to the Sullivan campaign in the primary.
It doesn't mean he isn't a good man, but people make mistakes.
WOW!! Edmund and Englander are seasoned political operatives and dirty tricksters. And Gay!
I wonder if Soros is paying this lawyer's bill?
I wonder if Soros is paying this lawyer's bill?
Maybe there was more to the Duke Cunningham scandal than we heard about. Could it be that this Edmunds guy put the blackmail squeeze on Cunningham enough that he thought that bribery was a viable option to raise the blackmail money off the record?
Rush is on the Istook connection right now!!!
Which reminds me, why the hell didn?t all you troglodytes vote for the FRAT Party? They lost, and that stinks! Instead, Chip Englander went and tried to play the magical election fairy, and got the whole damn Wolverine Party disqualified. I bet Chip still has lots of friends. And how about that Hideki? I like the guy, and as soon as he learns how to speak English, I bet he?ll make a damn fine student body President.
And finally, since we?re talking about student bodies, I?d like to congratulate the beautiful girls of Delta Gamma on winning Greek Week. They were paired with another sorority, Pi Kappa Alpha (yes, retards, this is a joke), and like Chip Englander, they like to go around pretending they?re fairies.
Could it be that Chip Englander is a veteran political dirty trickster, who's gay connections were exploited by the Democrats to blackmail closet Republican gay politicians?
Stephen Jones is the same lawyer who kept Timothy McVeigh under -very- close wraps, continuing the coverup of the Oklahoma City bombing's real perpetrators.
I'll wager that the Clinton's trust attorney Stephen Jones, and knew before the kid knew it that the kid needed such a lawyer.
January 2004 - Ventura County Star newspaper's blog: HARDBALL ABORTION POLITICS
On the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortions in the United States, pro-life activists staged protests and vigils across the country on Thursday. One of them was in Thousand Oaks, where 37th Assembly District candidate Mike Robinson joined about 90 others at a "Prayer for Life" vigil.
Later in the day, someone distributed fliers ? on plain white paper, with no indication of authorship ? at office buildings along Thousand Oaks Boulevard. The headline: "Audra Strickland Supported by Abortion Doctor." The flier asserts that the Audra Strickland campaign has received contributions from Los Alamitos Race Course, owned by Dr. Edward Allred, a man villified by anti-abortion activists as "an abortion doctor."
Similarly, Strickland's spokesman Chip Englander said he first learned of the flier when I called him late Thursday afternoon. No other calls had been received, he said, despite the fact that the flier urges readers to "call Audra and demand she return the money today" and lists her campaign office's phone number.
Both Robinson and Strickland are pro-life on the abortion issue; the third major candidate in the Republican primary, Jeff Gorell, is pro-choice.
That's why "It was a prank" came up. I'm still finding out who was paying for the lawyer.
Somebody better tell Istook and get him a good campaign manager!!!
Somebody better tell Istook and get him a good campaign manager!!!
THIS WAS NOT A PRANK!!! It was meant to DESTROY REPUBLICANS!!! Don't buy this PRANK CRAP!!!
Exactly. What's up with this? Is Istook sleazy at all? Don't know much about him.
On what basis could Istook be blackmailed?
Englander worked for Shirley Horton in San Diego. Anybody know about that era?
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