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Rep. Foley Turns The Wrong Page

2006-09-30 at 9:59 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida recently resigned his position after it was discovered he sent suggestive emails to a 16-year-old male page among others. Here’s the really disturbing part: Foley chaired the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.

Get ready for the “It was only in the name of research” defense. It worked for for Pete Townsend.

Foley’s job is now listed on his former website as a “vacancy.” Anybody need a job? The only qualifications are the ability to wildly spend somebody else’s money, and preferably an inkling of knowledge about how the Internet works.

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    1. MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily » Rep. Mark Foley’s Troubles: Congressional Double Standards Are The Only True Bipartisan Effort said,

      [...] I made an earlier prediction and said that Foley will pull a Pete Townsend here and say that he was simply conducting “research” for his job. He takes it that seriously. Here are some of Foley’s “alleged” email chats in PDF. If it was research, he was being really comprehensive. [...]

      October 2, 2006 at 6:44 am

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