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Someone should kick him in the ass!

Cal

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216699,00.html

Fla. Congressman Mark Foley Resigns Over E-Mails to Male Page

Saturday , September 30, 2006

WASHINGTON — Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page.

"I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent," he said in a statement issued by his office.

His departure sent Republicans scrambling for a replacement candidate less than six weeks before midterm elections in which Democrats are making a strong bid to gain control of the House.

Foley's two-sentence statement gave no reason for Foley's decision to abandon a flourishing career in Congress. But several officials said the resignation had been prompted by the e-mails, and he took his action as fresh details emerged about electronic messages he had sent.

Foley, 52, had been a shoo-in for a new term until the e-mail correspondence surfaced in recent days.

His resignation further complicates the political landscape for Republicans, who are fighting to retain control of Congress. Democrats need to win a net of 15 Republican seats to regain the power they lost in 1994.

Florida Republicans planned to meet as soon as Monday to name a replacement in Foley's district, which President Bush won with 55 percent in 2004 and is now in play for November. Though Florida ballots have already been printed with Foley's name and cannot be changed, any votes for Foley will count toward the party's choice.

Campaign aides had previously acknowledged that the Republican congressman e-mailed the former Capitol page five times, but had said there was nothing inappropriate about the exchange. The page was 16 at the time of the e-mail correspondence.

Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., who sponsored the page from his district, told reporters that he learned of the e-mails from a reporter some months ago and passed on the information to Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Republican campaign organization.

Alexander said he did not pursue the matter further because "his parents said they didn't want me to do anything."

Carl Forti, a spokesman for the GOP campaign organization, said Reynolds learned from Alexander that the parents did not want to pursue the matter. Forti said, however, that the matter did go before the House Page Board — the three lawmakers and two House officials who oversee the pages.

It was unclear what the officials did.

The board currently is headed by Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., who did not respond to requests for an interview.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Friday he had asked Shimkus to investigate the page system. "We want to make sure that all our pages are safe and the page system is safe," Hastert said.

Pages are high school students who attend classes under congressional supervision and work as messengers.

He said Foley submitted the letter of resignation to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and submitted a copy to him. A House clerk read Foley's resignation on the House floor.

"He's done the right thing," Hastert said. Asked if the chain of events was disturbing, he said, "None of us are very happy about it."

ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former teenage male pages. In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page: "Do I make you a little horny?"

In another message, Foley wrote, "You in your boxers, too? ... Well, strip down and get naked."

Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect.

"We track library books better than we do sexual predators," Foley has said.

And he once accused the Supreme Court of "siding with pedophiles over children."

Foley was a member of the Republican leadership, serving as a deputy whip. He also was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Foley, who represents an area around Palm Beach County, e-mailed the page in August 2005. Foley asked him how he was doing after Hurricane Katrina and what he wanted for his birthday. The congressman also asked the boy to send a photo of himself, according to excerpts of the e-mails that were originally released by ABC News.

Foley's aides initially blamed Democratic rival Tim Mahoney and Democrats with attempting to smear the congressman before the election.

The e-mails were posted Friday on Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's Web site after ABC News reported their existence. The group asked the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate the exchange Foley had with the boy.

Naomi Seligman, a spokeswoman for CREW, said the group also sent a letter to the FBI after the group received the e-mails. CREW did not post their copies of the e-mail until ABC News reported them, instead waiting for the investigation.

"The House of Representatives has an obligation to protect the teenagers who come to Congress to learn about the legislative process," the group wrote, adding that the committee, "must investigate any allegation that a page has been subjected to sexual advances by members of the House."

In 2003, Foley faced questions about his sexual orientation as he prepared to run for Sen. Bob Graham's seat. At a news conference in May of that year, he said he would not comment on rumors he was gay. He later decided not to seek the Senate seat to care for his parents.

According to the CREW posting, the boy e-mailed a colleague in Alexander's office about Foley's e-mails, saying, "This freaked me out." On the request for a photo, the boy repeated the word "sick" 13 times.

He said Foley asked for his e-mail when the boy gave him a thank you card. The boy also said Foley wrote that he e-mailed another page.

"he's such a nice guy," Foley wrote about the other boy. "acts much older than his age...and hes in really great shape...i am just finished riding my bike on a 25 mile journey now heading to the gym...whats school like for you this year?"

In other e-mails, Foley wrote, "I am back in Florida now...its nice here...been raining today...it sounds like you will have some fun over the next few weeks...how old are you now?" and "how are you weathering the hurricane...are you safe...send me an email pic of you as well."

What the boy wrote to Foley, who is single, wasn't available. The e-mails were sent from Foley's personal account, which Foley spokesman Jason Kello says he uses to communicate with many people, including the governor.

Efforts to reach the boy were unsuccessful, but he told the St. Petersburg Times last November, "I thought it was very inappropriate. After the one about the picture, I decided to stop e-mailing him back." The Times didn't publish the comments until Friday.

Alexander said the boy notified a staffer in his office about the e-mails. The congressman said he learned of it from a reporter 10 or 11 months ago and promptly called the boy's parents.

"My concern then was the young man's interests and the parents' interests," Alexander said Friday. "We weren't trying to protect anybody except the parents. ... They told me they were comfortable with it and didn't want to pursue anything, didn't want to talk about it anymore."

Florida Republican Party lawyers were reviewing the process to pick a replacement. Party Chairwoman Carole Jean Jordan said she hopes a replacement will be chosen by Monday. Among the possibilities was state Rep. Joe Negron, who was a candidate for attorney general before dropping out of the race to avoid a primary with former Rep. Bill McCollum.

"It would be very time sensitive so the nominee would have the opportunity to get around the district and campaign in a very short amount of time," Jordan said.

David Johnson, a former state Republican chairman who worked as a strategist for Foley, said it will be difficult for the party's pick to win with Foley's name on the ballot.

Mahoney, a Republican who became a Democrat last year, is chairman and chief operating officer of a $1 billion-a-year financial services company. In his House bid, he has focused on Washington corruption and oversized deficits.

In a statement, Mahoney said, "The challenges facing congressman Foley make this is a difficult time for the people of the 16th district. The families of all of those involved are in our thoughts and prayers."

In 1983, the House censured two lawmakers — Daniel Crane of Illinois and Gerry Studds of Massachusetts — for having improper relationships with pages.
 
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Anonymous

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Sick bastard. :mad: Thanks for getting this story out, Cal. I guess the Dems would say that it's his personal life, though. Maybe that's why they didn't rush to get it out?

I want to know why the sob isn't in jail. Things like that with minors get people arrested all the time. He deserves to be in jail. Or it would satisfy me even better if the hypocritical pervert was executed.

I also want to know who else knew this was going on. Whether they are Republican or Democrat, they need to be gone if they participated in a coverup of this sick behavior.

What's really disgusting to me is that he was ignorant enough to put it into writing. It's bad enough to be a fag. Even worse to be a pedophile fag. But to be stupid enough to document it...with a kid? Gee, what a dumbass.

Now, I'm sure my last statement will draw out the liberal homo-enablers and excusers. Those who always come out and preach tolerance for the queers will certainly object to what I'm going to say and might even attack me personally. The fear of that just almost frightens me... :lol:

Doesn't this prove to you liberals that a queer isn't to be trusted with our kids?
 
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Anonymous

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X said:
Now, I'm sure my last statement will draw out the liberal homo-enablers and excusers. Those who always come out and preach tolerance for the queers will certainly object to what I'm going to say and might even attack me personally. The fear of that just almost frightens me... :lol:
 

Mike

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Not sure why you think it's about gay men

Isn't this guy gay? What is it that I am missing here? :roll: :???:

The sumbitch ought to be tied down on a fire ant mound til they strip him to the bones!! :mad:
 

kolanuraven

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Seems he's not gay....and it was just announced that this has been known about for OVER A YEAR by the committee that Foley is head over. In fact he just formulated a law to protect people from internet predators.

But the catch here is that this page was over legal age.
 

Red Robin

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Mike said:
Seems he's not gay

If he wants to have sex with someone his own gender he is gay, queer, a fag, funny, weird, and sick! :???: :???: :roll: :roll:
It depends on on your definition of the word is. Seems some people don't understand how the rest of the world defines queer.
 

Red Robin

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reader (the Second) said:
pedophiles want to have sex with children; some with both sexes although they may prefer children of a single sex

don't want to have sex with adults of either gender

gays want to have sex with adults of the same gender

what else do you need to know?
You've already told more than you know. I'd stop now if I was you. ANYONE wanting to have sex with anyone else of the same sex is queer. Just because he is a queer pediphile doesn't exclude him from being queer.
 
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Anonymous

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Regarding Studds, I'm sure it comes as no surprise to most of us out here in forgotten flyover country that a queer homo from Massachussetts can do that and be re-elected. The voters of that state have proven for years and years that they have no moral compass to guide them. Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry and Barney Fag are 3 prime examples of what's important to them in a candidate.
 
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Anonymous

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The national Republican Party, moreover, must especially be held accountable for concealing the presence of a pedophilic predator in the House, and for allowing him to prey for months on other children who were employees of the House.
I agree. Just when it seemed the President was turning public opinion around in time for the election, this crap has to surface. :mad:
 

Mrs.Greg

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:mad: This stuff is totally sick.Over the last 30 years greg and I have watched friends trying to cope with thier encounter with a gay pedofile.I'm sorry but i'm not at all on R2 or Kolas side,these men are struggling sooo bad because thier attacker was MALE, a GAY male,a male in a honored position in thier small town,these victims DO NOT ever get over it.No amount of talking will ever change my mind on this one.I'd like to see any sick B-terd like this hung by body parts they obviously use to think with :evil:
 

floyd

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What does this say about current leadership in the House? Apparently they knew about these e-mails for sometime now.
 

Red Robin

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reader (the Second) said:
Not without proof.
Homosexuals Molest Children At A Far Higher Rate Than Heterosexuals
Homosexuals account for only 1-2% of our population based on current surveys. The National Opinion Research Center in 1992 found that 2.8% of men and 1.4% of women identified themselves as “homosexual” or “bisexual. A 1995 survey of 18-49-year-old men published by the Journal of Sex Research indicated that 2.6% of them had engaged in homosexual sex within the prior 12 months; 4% had had homosexual sex within the past five years. In other words, at least 98-99% of our population is heterosexual in orientation.

Homosexual activists routinely claim that most child molesters are “heterosexual” males, thus shifting the focus away from their own very high rates of molestation. Since 98-99% of the population is heterosexual, it is technically correct to say that most molestations are done by heterosexuals. However, statistics indicate that homosexuals pose a far more serious threat to children than do heterosexuals.

For example: In 1987, Dr. Stephen Rubin of Whitman College conducted a ten-state study of sex abuse cases involving school teachers. He studied 199 cases. Of those, 122 male teachers had molested girls, while 14 female teachers had molested boys. He also discovered that 59 homosexual male teachers had molested boys and four female homosexual teachers had molested girls. In other words, 32 percent of those child molestation cases involved homosexuals. Nearly a third of these cases come from only 1-2% of the population.

Dr. Judith Reisman, in her book, Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences, describes the research done by Dr. Gene Abel. This researcher compared the molestation rates of self-confessed homosexual and heterosexual child molesters. In a sample of 153 homosexual molesters, they confessed to a total of 22,981 molestations. This is equivalent to 150 children per molester. Self-admitted heterosexual molesters admitted to 4,435 molestations. This comes to 19.8 victims per molester. Dr. Abel concluded that homosexuals “sexually molest young boys at an incidence that is occurring from five times greater than the molestation of girls.”

This high rate of molestations by homosexuals is consistent with other studies conducted during the past several decades. Here are just a few studies that show homosexuals molesting children at epidemic rates:

The Los Angeles Times conducted a survey in 1985 of 2,628 adults across the U.S. Of those, 27% of the women and 16% of the men had been sexually molested. Seven percent of the girls and 93% of the men had been molested by adults of the same sex. This means that 40% of child molestations were by homosexuals. (Los Angeles Times, August 25-6, 1985)[/quote]
 

Red Robin

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You didn't respond so I guess you need more proof.

New York Post Exposes High Rate Of Teacher/Student Molestations
In a story not widely publicized in the mainstream press, the New York Post published a story in its July 30, 2001 edition about the secret epidemic of homosexual child abuse cases that go unreported in New York City’s public schools.

The report, “Secret Shame Of Our Schools: Sexual Abuse Of Students Runs Rampant,” by Douglas Montero, is the result of an analysis of 117 cases of sexual abuse between January 1999 and June 2001. Sixty percent of those accused of sexual abuse were transferred to desk jobs inside the school district. Forty percent of those transferred suspects were repeat sex offenders.

The report noted that out of the 117 cases, 212 children were victims. In 45% of the cases, the sex offender attacked more than one student. In nearly 16% of the cases, school officials delayed or tried to cover up the sexual molestations. The average victim is a 15-year-old girl and 75% of the victims were girls. According to the report, “Nearly 20 percent of the offenders are homosexuals and in most of these cases, the attack led to a sexual relationship with the stu- dent.” The report also discovered that the Board of Education investigated another 347 substantiated sex abuse cases between January 2000 and July 20, 2001. Adding the 117 cases with the 327, it appears that at least one child is sexually abused each day by a school employee—and 20% of these molestations against children are done by homosexuals!

One of our school principals in town showed his manhood to an undercover cop! :mad: Got busted, his face and name in lights and lost his job. Most people don't care but I won't speak to him. Idiot. He and the cop were both of the male gender.

Another principal who is dead now according to my brother , while they were kids, shoved a $5 bill down my brothers friends shorts (in the front) :mad: This principal was a girlish type single man.
 

kolanuraven

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Whoa here....I'm not on a side in this thread!!!

I just stated a few sentences.

Since you bring up ' my side'.....he's wrong to chase kids be it on the internet or down the street. He's a hypocrite on top of that! and #1...he must be an idiot!


But again...this house page was not a child! That's doesn't make what Foley did any less..he's still a fool for what he's done.

Now I do agree with R2 on her definitions and explanations between homosexual and pedophile...the 2 don't always come in the same package...in fact rarely do they.
 

CattleArmy

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Red Robin said:
R2 will you accept that as a group, a larger percentage of queers are pedophiles when compared to normal people?


Red Robin you are a mean spirited hate filled person always on the band wagon against a group of people that are attracted to the same sex. As long as they leave you alone what do you care what consenting adults do in their own bedrooms??? Why is it of any importance to you at all??? Pedophiles are another classification of people. They are adults who are turned on by children. Why can you not get that????? :???:
 
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