Eleven GOPers Fingered in Foley Cover-Up

Eleven GOPers Fingered in Foley Cover-Up
By Justin Rood - September 30, 2006
Roll Call's John Bresnahan reports:

As of Saturday evening, nearly a dozen House GOP lawmakers and staffers have acknowledged that they knew of the initial batch of non-sexually explicit messages from Foley to a 16-year-old former House page, some of them for a year or more. These include Hastert <(IL)>; Majority Leader John Boehner (Ohio); National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds (N.Y.); Reps. Rodney Alexander (La.) and John Shimkus (Ill.); Mike Stokke, the Speaker’s deputy chief of staff; Ted Van Der Meid, Hastert’s counsel; Paula Nowakowski, Boehner’s chief of staff; Jeff Trandahl, the former Clerk of the House; and another Hastert aide and Alexander’s chief of staff, according to public statements and GOP insiders.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001645.php

:sarcasm:

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Isn't it just lovely, though? A SEX scandal - and it's all theirs!

:toast:


Here's my take on it - I call 'em all "Foley Artists." Just a bunch of noise-manufacturing machines.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2859867

should be held accountable as protectors of pedophiles.
Just imagine how they repugs and the MSM would be reacting if it were a Democratic scandal.

the party of Pedophilia...are your children safe??

.... then you know that the fix was in.

:hi:
looking forward to seeing Jon Stewart in a month-are you going?

I don't expect us to take either none or squat... (trying to be nice, truly meant Jack or shit), but goddamit, they will HAVE to steal my vote...

Even though I don't expect us to take a thing, I'll be there voting... remembering that Stalin was right. It does not matter if I vote, but who counts them

How the heck are you supposed to know who to vote for when you don't know who should be replaced?? There is no room for predators and accopices in government, does this make any sense?!!

OK what about the kid at the other end of Foley's instant messages.

While the press can not legally mention his name is the boy himself able to make direct contact with the media? Questionable area.

There is the free speech issue and yet at the same time he is under age.

Seems to me he could easily market his story to the tabloids or even Geraldo etc.

Please consider this.

He is a material witness and Foley may well end up either going to trial, or pleading to a lesser offense and perhaps serving probation.

Just my 2 cents, but I'm not an attorney.

Welcome to DU. You've joined at a very interesting time. :hi:

FYI, more than one kid communicated with Foley via IM. What are you trying to ask? Do you mean these boys somehow have a responsibility to go public? Are they being accused of exploiting their stories? What are you trying to say?

the nonsexual emails he received from Foley in 2005 is still a minor but all he has said is he was creeped out and didn't respond back to Foley. The St Petersburg Times tracked him down and spoke to him in Nov 2005. He didn't want publicity or his name used. And again, the emails he received had no sexual content.

The sexually explicit IM's that ABC received after they ran the "email" story come from a different source and involved a different former page who, given the time elapsed, is no longer a minor.

Foley was a "friendly" guy and apparently had been doing this stuff for years. (Pages were warned in 2001 about Foley.) Odds are there are a number of former pages over the years who received explicit communications from Foley who are no longer minors. Whether they are willing to come forward is another matter.

But a heck of a lot of the accusations that tarnished the Catholic Church came from men who had been abused decades ago.

He might actually make some money by telling his story! And what a shame that would be!! :sarcasm:

If I knew this kid I would be giving him Geraldo's number.

They should have begun investigations six months ago when they first learned about this. Now they want everyone to think they are right on top of it..when in reality they just sat on this.

on the taxpayers' tab, of course.

Newsprism

and just hid it. Republicans are that way. Now they've GOP operatives in control of everything, I am sure it will be found that the minors were the cause of the perversion and ordered to apologize.

their rabid homophobia. But they'll come up with some justification. Or an excuse. Somehow this will be the liberals' fault, or the media, or Bill Clinton. These people are capable of mind-numbing cognitive dissonance.

:evilgrin:

BONER better. more descriptive

I hope Hastert is pronounced that way, too.

Beyner.

thats how the TV ads say it anyways. It makes sense if its a german name

two vowels together = first vowel silent. also the H is silent.

It's too tempting to pass up. :evilgrin:

is a lover of Pedophiles and the protectors of pedophiles. Period
Hide Your Children - Seriously!

and now the GOP (Grand Old Perverts) should get the same treatment.

What would be wonderful would be to get the quotes of the cover-upers sanctamonously condemning he Catholic Church for their cover-up. Anybody out there have the time? I wish I did.

reached bottom yet....get the POPCORN....

This is important

that every ONE of these monsters voted FOR TORTURE, Stabbing the Magna Carta in the Back, the Repudiation of the Geneva Conventions, etc.

They don't just HIDE Sexual Predators, if they had their way, this monster might get some in his BASEMENT, charge them with something and TORTURE THEM, this is a crime of POWER as is Rape in the end, Power over the Victim, just like Torture.

And I find it REALLY interesting that Hastert was a HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING COACH.. doesn't that involved underage boys grappling with each other, maybe some Coach showing them HOW? I wonder if any boys from his Wrestling days might want to come forward and talk about him groping or inappropriate speech?

Hastert's role in the cover-up re: Foley does cast his former profession in a new light.

Julie

everything is connected. here's some more on the Delay clone Reynolds
http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/archives/3807

eleven counts of conspiracy?

And do the other eleven qualify too?

All those fuckers will have to resign.

(I'm sure a clever prosecutor could find something
to charge them with, perhaps OOJ, if they were
sufficiently motivated.)

Tesha

Film and statistical information at eleven!

(Edited to fix spelling...Laughing to hard to type carefully)

The torture of a 15 year old boy at Gitmo...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2282190

After initially denying any knowledge of the Foley threat to pages, Hastert admitted the Republican leadership knew for months, if not years, of the problem but claimed they were only warned Foley was "over-friendly" with pages. My question is this: how can a politician be "over-friendly"? How could Hastert have thought Foley's inclination to be "over-friendly" with pages was anything other than pedophilia? What did you think, Dennis? Did he smile too much, greet them in the hallways or otherwise treat them too nicely? If that was the "problem," why did they have to be warned? Why was there even a discussion? I seem to recall a young veteran is running against Hastert and figures to have no chance to win. If he makes Hastert eat those words enough, maybe he can turn the tide.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

when the Roman Catholic church, in the run up to '04 elections, said Kerry couldn't take communion because he was pro choice? Did anyone else notice the publicity stopped in MSM about the cover ups for years of priests/pedophiles. Maybe it's a fascist thing.Go figure.

coverup, by my assessment of the R's vulnerability to calls for resignation.

The OP mentions some of the Republicans who need to be asked, "What did you know,and when did you know it", and whose hard-drives MUST be seized as evidence in a possble criminal conspiracy.

I went to http://www.fec.gov and http://www.thegreenpapers.com and clicked through to state General Election voter information pages. Here are the incumbent names, states and districts, Democratic challengers, and campaign homepage URLs:

R Incumbent (State-District) ....... Democratic Challenger
Homepage

Mark Foley (FL-16) ..................... Tim Mahoney
http://www.timmahoneyforflorida.com

John Shimkus (IL-19) .................. Danny Stover
http://www.stoverforcongress.us

Thomas Reynolds (NY-26) .......... Jack Davis
http://www.jackdavis.org

Rodney Alexander (LA-05) ......... Gloria Williams Hearn
NO WEBSITE LINK AT THEGREENPAPERS

John A. Boehner (OH-08) ............ Mort Meier
http://www.victimsofjohnboehner.org

Denny Hastert (IL-14) ................. John Laesch
http://john06.com

Roy Blunt (MO-07) ..................... Jack Truman
http://trumanforcongress.tripod.com

See http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/9/30/212758/946/426#c426 for more details.

Here's where you can go to help some of these candidates. Most of these Democrats are on their own with very few resources. One doesn't even have a website!

IMO, what they need most is help with local media, press releases, photo-ops, etc. IMO, their only hope of gaining office for themselves is to ignite local media feeding frenzies to bloody up and then devour the coverup leadership. You can even find lists of links to their local media at the bottom of General Election webpages for their states at http://www.thegreenpapers.com .