Yahoo NewsWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Former Rep. Mark Foley's attorney said Tuesday that his client was molested between the ages 13 and 15 by a clergyman.
Foley had represented the West Palm Beach district for 12 years and was seeking re-election until his sudden resignation last week after the disclosure of lurid online communications with teenage congressional pages.
"This is part of his recovery," Roth said, declining to identify the clergyman or the church.
Roth also announced for the first time that Foley is gay.
See sexual predators can recover.
Hastert's being accused of going easy on Foley. That could be...it's yet to be shown.
But at least he didn't spring him from prison. By the way, speaking of "explicit"--I didn't link to it, but the transcript of Reynolds talking to a 16 year old girl has to be seen to be believed. But that was different, of course.
Different from Foley's actions under Hastart's denial of knowledge? Yes, your right.
damage control for foley and republicans. hey, lets use the never out of style "I was molested as an innocent teen by a priest" to justify our child molesting. the paige was 16 years old. what a piece of crap foley is.
Ok, I didn't read the entire thread, but I did hear on Fox News (On the XM in my truck over lunch 'cause I work and dont' have internet access all day) that some talking head said it was a know fact that Foley played on the "other side of the fence". Has this come "out" as well?
Was this a real teen or one of those guys from the Nightline special "Catching a Predator" ?
I think this case is one of the results of the GOP's "win at any cost" culture.
The tone at the top should worry anybody.
Saturday Night Live or the Daily Show or someone has to do a skit where Mark Foley gets caught by Chris Hanson of Dateline.
Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago
Oct 04 4:03 PM US/Eastern
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
BreitbartA 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.
Hastert, meanwhile, continues to deny...
Hastert Denies Knowledge Of Foley's 2003 E-Mails to Pages
By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press
October 3, 2006
WASHINGTONNY Sun— The House speaker, Rep. Dennis Hastert, said yesterday that no Republican leaders saw lurid Internet exchanges between former Rep. Mark Foley and underage high-school pages and that he would have demanded his ouster if he'd known about them.
"As a parent and speaker of the House, I am disgusted," Mr. Hastert, a Republican of Illinois, told reporters after holding a meeting at the Capitol in the wake of the disclosure of the e-mails in 2003 to a page, which led to Mr. Foley's resignation last Friday. The page's home state was not immediately cited.
The speaker did not mention e-mail exchanges between Mr. Foley, a Florida Republican, and another page, from Louisiana, in 2005. Other House Republicans said they told Mr. Hastert about those exchanges months ago. Mr. Hastert has not disputed those accounts.
"Congressman Foley duped a lot of people," Mr. Hastert said. "I've know him for all the years he has worked in this House, and he deceived me, too."
Interesting that Fordham resigned today as Thomas Reynolds' chief of staff. Maybe Hastert's aides are next to fall on their swords.
Still wouldn't be an acceptable solution. Hastart still denies. Some accountability this is.
Have you seen this priceless video of Mark Foley
America BlogTwo new pages says Foley had sexual online chats with them while they were underage
CNN just reported. Yikes.
The vast left wing conspiracy continues to mobilize its minions.
"A member of the House leadership told me that Foley, under continuous political pressure because of his sexual orientation, was considering not seeking a seventh term this year but that Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), talked him into running."
Which pinko bas worte that tripe, saying that Reynolds encouraged Foley to run even with full knowledge of the creepy emails?
lol. Now O'Reilly and Hannity will start calling him a bag.The vast left wing conspiracy continues to mobilize its minions.
"A member of the House leadership told me that Foley, under continuous political pressure because of his sexual orientation, was considering not seeking a seventh term this year but that Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), talked him into running."
Which pinko bas worte that tripe, saying that Reynolds encouraged Foley to run even with full knowledge of the creepy emails?
Not quite ready for the sword yets...
Hastert's Office Insists He Did Nothing Wrong
Senior Congressional Aide Says Hastert Knew Of E-mails Two Years Ago
Oct. 4, 2006ABC News— Despite claims by senior congressional aide Kirk Fordham that he notified House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office more than two years ago about possible inappropriate contact between former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., and underage congressional pages, the Speaker's office is insisting it did nothing wrong in its handling of the situation.
"That never happened," Hastert spokesman Ron Bonjean told ABC News about the report.
But Fordham — a former chief of staff to Foley, who resigned as chief of staff to another member of the GOP leadership, Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y. — said that as far back as 2003, Hastert chief of staff Scott Palmer had been told that Foley was too friendly with pages. According to Fordham, Palmer spoke to Foley about the matter.
Neither Foley nor Palmer could be reached for comment, yet Hastert's office disputes the account.
How long can they circle the wagons before Hastart is pulled out by his scalp?
Top GOP Staffer Reportedly Fired for Role in Page Scandal
ABC NewsThe chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, was reportedly fired today for his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill.
Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, reportedly urged Republican leaders not to raise questionable Foley e-mails with the full Congressional Page Board, made up of two Republicans and a Democrat.
"He begged them not to tell the page board," said one of the Republican sources.
People familiar with Fordham's side of the story, however, said Fordham was being used as a scapegoat by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
They said Fordham had repeatedly warned Hastert's staff about Foley's "problem" with pages, but little was done.
Very interesting, look for the wing-nut media to try and discredit Fordham ASAP.
Kirk Fordham today issued the following statement:
ABC News"I have resigned today from Congressman Tom Reynolds' office. It is clear the Democrats are intent on making me a political issue in my boss's race, and I will not let them do so.
I want to clarify a few things: When I sought to help Congressman Foley and his family when his shocking secrets were being revealed, I did so as a friend of my former boss, not as Congressman Reynolds' Chief of Staff. I reached out to the Foley family, as any good friend would, because I was worried about their emotional well-being.
At the same time, I want it to be perfectly clear that I never attempted to prevent any inquiries or investigation of Foley's conduct by House officials or any other authorities.
Like so many, I feel betrayed by Mark Foley's indefensible behavior. Again, I will not allow the Democrats to make me a political issue in my boss's race, and I will fully cooperate with the ongoing investigation."
(End of statement)
Why is it "republican sources"? Why don't they just go on the record? Not much more to hide.
Finally, it seems that Fordham may be gay himself..
Salon"The moral corruption of the gay-bashing stunt was underscored by extensive coverage in the Washington Blade, a gay weekly in the capital, of two top advisers to Martinez who the newspaper says are sexual. Kirk Fordham, Martinez's finance director, and former Christian Coalition of Florida head John Dowless, have not denied the reports of their sexual orientation. In July, Dowless declined to discuss the matter with the Blade, telling reporter Mubarak Dahir, "I'm just not going to address that with you." But Dahir reported that an unidentified Blade editor had met Dowless at a gay bar in Orlando in April..."
I wonder how this played into the GOP's decision to scapegoat him.
Bush is on the road, right? Interesting timing.
Oooops! It now appears Foley may have been doing nothing illegal. He's still s , but not a criminal. At least no more so than Barney Franks.
Running now on Drudge
A posting of an unredacted instant message sessions between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page has apparently exposed the iden y of the now 21 year-old accuser...
ABC RELEASED TRANSCRIPT OF CHAT BETWEEN FOLEY AND A MAN WHO WAS 18 AT THE TIME OF THE INSTANT MESSAGE EXCHANGE.... NETWORK GAVE IMPRESSION MESSAGE WAS TO 'UNDER AGE' TEEN... DEVELOPING...
'ONLINE GLITCH' LEADS TO IDEN Y OF FOLEY ACCUSER.
Bogus Blog started it all
Wouldn't it be hilarious if this blows up in Democrats faces.
So, for those keeping score:
Creepy, but inconclusive, e-mails between Mark Foley and a page are held by the media and everyone else (for various reasons) until 5 weeks before the midterms. Most of the media says they held them because, while creepy, they 1) didn't warrant evidence of anything worse than creepiness, 2) they didn't want to be seen as phobic by outing a gay congressman, and 3) they just weren't newsworthy.
Speaker Hastert was told about the e-mails some time back and at the request of the page, he confronted Congressman Foley and told him to stop. Which Foley immediately did. No action was requested by the page and there was nothing else actionable to be done except say ewwww!
The New York Times has run a story -- to their credit -- in which they interview a buttload of former pages who say Foley was well-liked by the pages because he was kind to them. This in the context of the e-mails still doesn't spell pedophile.
Then, last Friday the chat sessions hit the news. Most are characterizing them as being between Foley and an underage page. But, now we learn the page was 18 at the time. Not to mention, it may be learned that many Democrats may have known about the chats for a lot longer than did anyone else -- this according to none other than Morris who says he has good information the media has the name of a leading Democrat who knew about all this.
And, of course, behind all of this is a bogus blog and an activist liberal group, CREW.
So, again, why does Dennis Hastert need to resign?
Gotta love it. Maybe the Dems could get away with this a few years ago, but since Rathergate, they blow chunks at manufacturing a scandal.
The Democrats aren't the ones roasting him on a rotating spit, Yoni. If some information comes to light that causes them to "eat one of their own", how is that the Democrats fault? Because the G.O.P. are predicatable phobes?
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