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Friday, September 29, 2006
Mark Foley
Okay, I've read the IM messages that ABC has between Mark Foley and teenage pages. They are pretty appalling. Foley has some serious problems if he's chairing the House caucus on missing and exploited children and all the while is soliciting the House pages. It's as if he wanted to be caught. It looks like he's going to face some pretty serious charges for using the Internet to solicit sex from a minor.
This guy is a serious creep. He knew all this was out there, but he waited until ABC News got the story before resigning. He used his position to sexually harass these kids. I don't think he'll get very nice treatment when he is serving time under laws he supported.
And why did it take three years for this to come to light? ABC says that the messages were from 2003 and that incoming pages were warned by other pages about this guy. Why didn't anyone speak up and report the guy. The kids were saving the messages as if they knew that the time would come to show them to authorities one day. Didn't one kid tell his parents or one of the officials in charge of the page program? If they were afraid of saying anything while they were there, what about when they went home? I'm glad that he was, so to speak, exposed now. Even though it means that the Republicans may well lose what looked like a safe seat now.
I sure hope that the supervisors of the page program will make it clear to all the pages that they don't have to worry about reporting improper advances that they receive from anyone there on Capitol Hill. They are not there to provide a sexual playground for any of those who work on Capitol Hill.
And Tom Bevan asks at the RCP Blog: What gives at the St. Petersburg Times? Apparently, they've known about this story for almost a year and they sat on it. Didn't they think it was important to get this guy out of Congress and into the legal system? Didn't they think it was news that a Florida congressman was soliciting sex and talking dirty with a minor who had been placed in the Congress's care for his time there as a page?
UPDATE: Apparently, some in the Republican leadership knew about the emails but declined to do anything because the boy's family didn't want them to publicize it. It doesn't seem clear that they actually knew the content of what was in the messages and they just took Foley's word for it that the content was innocent. However, they let him off with a warning and left him in charge of the House Caucus on missing and exploited children. For shame.
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Okay, I've read the IM messages that ABC has between Mark Foley and teenage pages. They are pretty appalling. Foley has some serious problems if he's chairing the House caucus on missing and exploited children and all the while is soliciting the House pages. It's as if he wanted to be caught. It looks like he's going to face some pretty serious charges for using the Internet to solicit sex from a minor.
This guy is a serious creep. He knew all this was out there, but he waited until ABC News got the story before resigning. He used his position to sexually harass these kids. I don't think he'll get very nice treatment when he is serving time under laws he supported.
And why did it take three years for this to come to light? ABC says that the messages were from 2003 and that incoming pages were warned by other pages about this guy. Why didn't anyone speak up and report the guy. The kids were saving the messages as if they knew that the time would come to show them to authorities one day. Didn't one kid tell his parents or one of the officials in charge of the page program? If they were afraid of saying anything while they were there, what about when they went home? I'm glad that he was, so to speak, exposed now. Even though it means that the Republicans may well lose what looked like a safe seat now.
I sure hope that the supervisors of the page program will make it clear to all the pages that they don't have to worry about reporting improper advances that they receive from anyone there on Capitol Hill. They are not there to provide a sexual playground for any of those who work on Capitol Hill.
And Tom Bevan asks at the RCP Blog: What gives at the St. Petersburg Times? Apparently, they've known about this story for almost a year and they sat on it. Didn't they think it was important to get this guy out of Congress and into the legal system? Didn't they think it was news that a Florida congressman was soliciting sex and talking dirty with a minor who had been placed in the Congress's care for his time there as a page?
UPDATE: Apparently, some in the Republican leadership knew about the emails but declined to do anything because the boy's family didn't want them to publicize it. It doesn't seem clear that they actually knew the content of what was in the messages and they just took Foley's word for it that the content was innocent. However, they let him off with a warning and left him in charge of the House Caucus on missing and exploited children. For shame.
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Okay, I've read the IM messages that ABC has between Mark Foley and teenage pages. They are pretty appalling. Foley has some serious problems if he's chairing the House caucus on missing and exploited children and all the while is soliciting the House pages. It's as if he wanted to be caught. It looks like he's going to face some pretty serious charges for using the Internet to solicit sex from a minor.
This guy is a serious creep. He knew all this was out there, but he waited until ABC News got the story before resigning. He used his position to sexually harass these kids. I don't think he'll get very nice treatment when he is serving time under laws he supported.
And why did it take three years for this to come to light? ABC says that the messages were from 2003 and that incoming pages were warned by other pages about this guy. Why didn't anyone speak up and report the guy. The kids were saving the messages as if they knew that the time would come to show them to authorities one day. Didn't one kid tell his parents or one of the officials in charge of the page program? If they were afraid of saying anything while they were there, what about when they went home? I'm glad that he was, so to speak, exposed now. Even though it means that the Republicans may well lose what looked like a safe seat now.
I sure hope that the supervisors of the page program will make it clear to all the pages that they don't have to worry about reporting improper advances that they receive from anyone there on Capitol Hill. They are not there to provide a sexual playground for any of those who work on Capitol Hill.
And Tom Bevan asks at the RCP Blog: What gives at the St. Petersburg Times? Apparently, they've known about this story for almost a year and they sat on it. Didn't they think it was important to get this guy out of Congress and into the legal system? Didn't they think it was news that a Florida congressman was soliciting sex and talking dirty with a minor who had been placed in the Congress's care for his time there as a page?
UPDATE: Apparently, some in the Republican leadership knew about the emails but declined to do anything because the boy's family didn't want them to publicize it. It doesn't seem clear that they actually knew the content of what was in the messages and they just took Foley's word for it that the content was innocent. However, they let him off with a warning and left him in charge of the House Caucus on missing and exploited children. For shame.
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