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September 29, 2006
Can You Say Inappropriate?
GOP Rep. Mark Foley of Florida was caught initiating a rather creepy email exchange with a 16 year old boy, a former congressional page. The emails include Foley discussing what a great body a teenage friend of the boy had, and asking the boy for a "pic" - or "picture" in America Online "pick up" vernacular.
There seem to be an awful lot of bad people in the Republican party for them to be the party of "morals and ethics". This sort of thing seems to happen an awful lost for a bunch of people who are so "moral". I'm just saying. They are trying to spin the emails as harmless, but I'm with the kid who got them...It's creepy!
In the series of e-mails, obtained by ABC News, from Rep. Foley (R-FL) to the former page, Foley asks the young man how old he is, what he wants for his birthday and requests a photo of him.The concerned young man alerted congressional staffers to the e-mails. In one e-mail, the former page writes to a staffer, "Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously. This freaked me out."
And this guy is the one in Congress that is in charge of Child Sex Offenders type legislation and such. Does anyone else see the pattern that is forming with Republicans in general in terms of appointing inappropriate people, to inappropriate jobs? Of course the right wing doesn't, but what else is new?
Found via the ABC News Blotter and AmericaBlog.
Posted by Dianne at September 29, 2006 2:17 PM
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