Fordham: I Warned GOP Leadership About Foley Two Years Ago
AP has the latest bombshell:
A senior congressional aide said Wednesday that he alerted House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office two years ago about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages.Kirk Fordham told The Associated Press that when he was told about Foley's inappropriate behavior toward pages, he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene."
The conversations took place long before the e-mail scandal broke, Fordham said, and at least a year earlier than members of the House GOP leadership have acknowledged.








As a responsible citizen and voter I appeal to anyone who will bring forward every name, Republican and Democrat that was aware of the disgusting acts of Rep Mark Foley.
Every individual involved in concealing his actions should be removed from office.
As far as the FBI, whom ever was notified of Mark Foley's actions and did not address the issue, should be made public and removed immediately.
Thanks to all the politicians who have "protected us from terriorism" What? They forgot about our children?
Disgraceful!!!!!
Goodbye Hastert!!
This is so obvious a ploy from Democrats that it isn’t funny.
Do you really think that I believe that Republican leaders would risk such a scandal this close to an election if they knew about this in advance?
I wasn’t going to give anything this year to Republicans unless I see substantial border control regulations getting to the President, but this obvious ploy made me so angry that I tripled the amount I normally give, and may quadruple it.
Um, so Mark, to clarify, you believe that Mark Foley never made sexual advances to any pages, and he resigned for no reason?
Or are you just saying the timing of the scandal is contrived? If so, I have a couple comments. First, I disagree with your assertion that the Democratic party chose to time this now---I haven't seen any evidence that the Democratic party is particularly good at politics. Second, the timing choice was always in the hands of the Republicans. They knew, and never said. They also didn't cut off his access to pages, and urged him to run again even though he was going to leave. Their choice, Mark.
But I applaud you tripling or quadrupling what you give to the GOP. I would even urge you to quintuple it. I'm a traditionalist, and always like to see old sayings proven correct.
Corruption and impunity in the republican party has been institutionalized when our president and vice president keep sending contracts to haliburton and all other war merchants even though they have embezzled, forged, mismanaged our tax $ in this war over and over again.
Today, every high enough ranking republican is trying to get what they can get from our country, treasury, public office, that their position will expose them to.
They have acted from day one as if they have invaded our country and were trying to ravage whatever they can lay hands on before they are thrown out of office.
Well I know what I will do, I can't wait to get them out of our sight and for ever, come election day.
I reached this conclusion when I heard our own haster say that democrats are to blame for what happened or knew it and are using it politically.
I remember the lies of the WMD, swift boat. I bought the lies and it motivated my vote.
Today, Folley himself admitted to the crimes. There is no lie here. Flat out,We lied to go to war, we lied on our own veteran.
And because that lie was so successful, we continued to lie and distort the truth. There is a need for a stop somewhere. I don't know what to say to my kids anymore.
Comparing the truth of the pages emails, to the lies of the pre and post election by my own party, I am begining to think that I am in the wrong party.
It doesn't matter which democrat knew or not. We have known John kerry for years and yet we waited for the presidential campaign to distort and use his war records against him.
We had wanted to invade Iraq for a while, yet we waited for 911 to use the pretext and lie about the WMD to do so.
We even liked our own CIA agents name to the wolves out there to because the husband didn't cover up for our lies.
We are still covering up for all our mismanagement and ethnic cleansing going on in Iraq.
Now someone is trying to find excuses for someone molesting our children right under our nose in the public eye.
Where is the end?