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Foley Scandal: Ethics Committee Chastises to No AvailPosted on Dec 8, 2006
Having just finished its investigation of the Mark Foley coverup, the House Ethics Committee said lawmakers behaved inappropriately, but that no rules were broken: “In all, a pattern of conduct was exhibited among many individuals to remain willfully ignorant of the potential consequences of former Representative Foley’s conduct with respect to House pages.”
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By Bert, December 12, 2006 at 5:19 pm #
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Nevermind page boys, how about the entire GOP gang-banging of our federal budget? LOL No eyebrows going up, there….
Report thisBy Druthers, December 10, 2006 at 11:29 am #
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Who in the prevailing climate of corruption and lying would want any young member of his or her family to work in Congress?
Report thisThey all knew, they did nothing, and now there are no sanctions. The great party of family values.
They lie, they cheat, they steal, they seduce…and then they get re-elected…love those incummbents.
By Chris, December 9, 2006 at 8:27 pm #
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I agree with Guy Tran. We so need to “protect” the 16 and 17 year old “children” from the likes of Mark Foley. After all, they are all such dyed-in-the-wool, unknowing, helpless innocents…And let’s put Mark Foley on a “national child molestors” list, while we’re at it, right? And let’s make him report to the local police, right? Gotta protect all our local youngsters from him. He might just strike in your neighborhood! I don’t get the reasoning (as if Foley would do anything at this point), but in a way, he deserves it, as he would likely have championed it himself, given his pushing of child abuse legislation, if it had been another colleague, and Foley himself had stayed comfortably in the closet…
Report thisBy C Quil, December 9, 2006 at 5:24 pm #
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So - because there was no specific rule that said “Thou shalt not pursue in person or cyberstalk underage pages for sexual purposes, whether drunk or sober” then it’s OK?
What about rules of ethical conduct, by which ALL members of congress are supposed to conduct themselves?
That’s like a three-year-old protesting that because Mom told him not to poke the dog with a stick, it’s alright to poke the dog with a fork. These people are suffering from extreme ethical immaturity.
Report thisBy Quy Tran, December 9, 2006 at 2:45 pm #
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Mark Foley name should be added on the list of “national child molestors”. He ought to report to the police where does he go so that we can protect our local youngters from the predator.
Report thisBy Chaseme, December 9, 2006 at 4:02 am #
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Why is this not surprising? What ever happened to Chandra Levy?
And, oh by the way, what is the name of that minister who was doing meth while having sex with a gay prostitute?
Report thisBy Audrey Valente, December 8, 2006 at 10:12 pm #
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I think the fact that Foley was actively pursuing male pages makes it obvious about his homosexual preferences, so to prevent his homosexuality getting out is absurd.
Dennis Hastert and other republicans that knew about Foley’s actions and didn’t follow up or saying anything are all guilty of putting their own political future as priority over something so apparently immoral and wrong. The actions of each one not to confront it head on are disgusting!
No wonder people get sick of the inappropriate actions of our representatives.
The tiny slap on the hand from the Ethics Committee to Foley is insulting to the pages he pursued as well as to the American people they are supposedly representing.
Foley should be in jail like any other person in the same situation. So should Hastert for not stopping it whem he knew -especially in his leadership role. Disgusting!
The little slap on the hand to Foley for his actions from the Ethics Committee “Investigation” is even more insulting!!
And the Republicans ran their campaigns to be elected on bringing back good morals to Washington. What a joke!!!!
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