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Foley News Update

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  • A Zogby poll shows Jack Davis (D) leading NRCC Chair Tom Reynolds (R-NY) in NY 26 (release). Reynolds canceled a "This Week" appearance because he was suffering from a "flu-like" ailment (AP).
  • Ex-Foley/Reynolds CoS Kirk Fordham will testify to the House ethics cmte this week (USA Today).

  • The New Hampshire Union Leader calls on Dennis Hastert, John Shimkus and Rodney Alexander to resign.

  • "Mark A. Foley. Noted for -- being a ladies man" -- inscription in Foley's high school yearbook (Palm Beach Post).

  • Foley "called Julia Roberts a friend and once surprised Arnold Schwarzenegger with a gift of genuine German strudel" (Palm Beach Post).

  • Also: when Bush asked him if he "clipped in," Foley "went out and got those special cleated shoes that click into pedals" (U.S. News).