Posted on 10/12/2006 5:25:38 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Then-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley complained in an e-mail to Gov. Jeb Bush in 2004 that he was being ignored by President Bush on his trips to Florida after several hurricanes.
Foley resigned his congressional seat last month after his sexually explicit instant messages to former male pages became public. Before then, the Republican had maintained a regular dialogue with the Florida governor on a number of issues, mostly inconsequential, by e-mail.
But in one, he wanted the governor to intercede with his brother on some perceived slights. Foley complained that U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam accompanied President Bush on a visit into Putnam's central Florida congressional district and noted that state Rep. Joe Negron was on another trip.
"I can't quite figure what I have done, but this is a continuing pattern of slights," Foley complained in a Sept. 29, 2004, e-mail to the governor.
"Sorry to trouble you ... and I wouldn't if this wasn't so frequent," Foley wrote. "Have I done something to offend the White House? I am always getting the shaft."
The governor responded less than three hours later that he thought it was because the president was spending a lot of time in debate preparation in his 2004 re-election campaign.
"I know it is nothing you have done," he assured Foley.
I am ready to go with last weeks research on Free Republic...right now.
Have it all downloaded. Got any idea who to ping?
Maybe the ex-fighter pilot doesn't like hanging out with homosexuals.
That is wonderful news. Start your own thread, your screen name ought to attract plenty attention. There have been many on the Foley threads trying to piece together this layered scandal, I would not know where to start.
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