Posted on 10/05/2006 3:43:17 PM PDT by kristinn
06:17 PM EDT on Thursday, October 5, 2006
While the FBI is busy contacting former House pages to see if they got illicit e-mails from Congressman Mark Foley or anyone else, WHAS11 News has learned that a former page from Kentucky has said yes, Foley contacted him.
According to Congressman Ron Lewis, the former page is now a soldier in Iraq. But five years ago, he was a teenage page in the U.S. House who was the subject of some kind of questionable contact from Congressman Mark Foley.
Lewis’s chief of staff got a satellite phone call from Iraq Tuesday afternoon from a man who wouldn't identify himself. But he did say he was a soldier from Kentucky’s Second Congressional District who wanted to give Lewis a heads up.
“To let us know that he had been approached by Mark Foley in 2001 and that he is speaking to the proper authorities, to a JAG officer who will then pass that on to the FBI,” says Lewis.
Congressman Lewis’s office is the only local one we've found that's gotten a call from any of their former pages, alleging misconduct by Foley, a man Lewis describes this way: “He was a creepy guy.”
Louisville Congresswoman Anne Northup says if she'd gotten a complaint from one of her pages, the Foley case would have been handled differently.
“If anyone had ever told me there was a problem, I gotta tell you, I feel like my hair would have been on fire,” she says. “I would’ve gone to the leadership and wanted to know all the way through to the end what was going on.”
Both Northup and Lewis say they won't call for House Speaker Dennis Hastert to resign because of the controversy, but they might in the future.
“There’s not one member of leadership that I wouldn’t be wanting to throw overboard if they had access to e-mails… Even if they had staff that didn’t bring that to their attention,” says Northup.
Congresswoman Northup says she's only sponsored a few teenage pages from Louisville since 1996 and that none have complained or contacted her office since the Foley scandal unfolded last week.
Both Northup and Ron Lewis are planning to send letters to former pages, telling them to call a tip line set up for pages to call with information about Foley.
ABC must be too heavily invested in this to back off. The guy resigned, he has been disgraced, legal action (if necessary) will follow.
"Some kind of questionable contact." No age at time of contact given, except that he was a "teenager." Since pages have to be a minimum of 16 years old, and since 16 is the age of consent in Kentucky, where's the story here?
It's not just about age. Last I knew pols weren't allowed to hit on the pages and interns. Period.
Right, I know. I'm not saying his conduct was pristine, or that he shouldn't have resigned. Actually, though, it seems that the ones he did hit on were former pages.
"I did not have sex with that woman...Ms. Lewinski".
Oh, the story that the Capitol Police had to drag him away? The one that that shows up nowhere in the police logs?
The page program ought to be ended. And why the Senate permits pages as young as 14 is beyond me. As is what the heck the parents who send their kids up are thinking.
Well, Patrick Kennedy got a free ride. Why wouldn't they do the same darn thing for Foley? What a sewer.
drip, drip, drip. You might think a soldier in Iraq would have better things to do than follow something like this going on back in the states.
There is something very premeditated and distinct about Foley's actions.
That's the first I've heard of that story. I can't believe that really happened. There's no way in hell Hastert or anyone could have covered that up, even if they wanted to.
Did I also mention that he started out as a Democrat.
It wouldn't show up in the logs even if true.
Congress critters get pulled over all the time, and it's never written down. When they are going to hit a tree and blow a .2 they get escorted back home and tucked into bed.
Congress funds DC and the DC police. This event may or not have happened, but for it not to be in a log doesn't really prove anything if it was a congress critter.
That's what you think :(
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And the Dems didn't make that deal on their own. The Pubbies went right along with it.
Oh, I see! No one can back up the explanation, so it must be true?
Foley seems to have been awful darn careful to avoid any improprieties until the pages left the program, and avoided sexual discussions until they were of age. And I thought no one knew he was a drunk?
I doubt a soldier in Iraq has even heard about all this just yet, much less taken the time to call someone stateside to "report" it.
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