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Foley, Hastert And The Putrid Body Politic

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
09/10/2006

As I am sure you can understand, it took me a while to digest last week's stomach turning story of the perverted private life of 'upstanding' Republican Representative Mark Foley.

For those that missed out on the story;

In 2005, Foley sent five emails, some of them sexually suggestive, to a 16-year-old former page sponsored by Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA). Among other things, Foley asked for a photo of the page, asked what he wanted for a birthday present, and expressed admiration for the physique of another young male page (to whom he had also written). The page forwarded the emails to a colleague in Alexander's office, saying "this really freaked me out," and repeating the word "sick" 13 times to describe the photo request. The page asked "if you can, please tell Rodney [Alexander] about this," and mentioned another page who had been warned about a Congressman who "hit on" interns.

On October 3, ABC News reported that it had come into possession of as many as "52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys under the age of 18." Another former page, Tyson Vivyan, has said that he received "sexually suggestive" messages from Foley in 1997, a month after he left the page program. Then on October 5 ABC News reported that, in 2002, Foley e-mailed one page with an invitation to stay at his home in exchange for oral sex. The page, who was 17 years old at the time, declined the offer. The same report stated that he emailed another with a request for a photograph of his erect penis. And that was just for starters.

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