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DoYouEverWonder

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Sat Nov-18-06 07:58 AM
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With DEMS like these

who needs enemies?

Friends provide support for Foley

November 18, 2006

WEST PALM BEACH — Mark Foley, standing at the head of his father's open casket, hugged old friends, wept openly and kept glancing toward his dad, Ed Foley, as hundreds passed through Quattlebaum Funeral Home on Friday to pay their respects.

As he always did in life, Ed Foley was once again helping his son. This painful moment for the family also was a homecoming for Mark Foley, whose once-promising political career was shattered in September when scandal forced him to resign from Congress.

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Among those in attendance were former Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore, former Lake Worth Mayor Tom Ramiccio, Virginia Thomas of Thomas Dance Studio, Palm Beach County School Board member Bill Graham, Martin County Sheriff Bob Crowder and entrepreneur Greg Rice.

When Rice, who stands 2-feet-10, approached, Foley dropped to his knees, and the two men hugged.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/treasurecoast/content/local_news/epaper/2006/11/18/m1a_FOLEY_1118.html

If Terese LePore was really a DEM and not a Repug stooge, why would she show up to support a known Republican sexual predator? As they say, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf

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Sat Nov-18-06 08:02 AM
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1. I don't know...

At times like that, political parties are somehow meaningless. All you have left is either human decency or any lack thereof.

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acmejack

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Sat Nov-18-06 08:54 AM
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2. I agree, one never knows what personal history there might be either.

People despite their weaknesses, flaws, crimes and warts, still have parents and loved ones. When they lose them it is only proper to show respect for their loss.

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etherealtruth

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Sat Nov-18-06 09:11 AM
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3. What?

Human compassion and decency should be ignored because of political affiliation?

I never check the political affiliation of friends and acquaintances when a loved on dies ... do you?

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sat Nov-18-06 09:19 AM
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4. Sorry, I don't have much compassion

for a woman who was a Republican and only switched parties because she wanted to run for SOE in a predominantly DEM county. I know people who were poll workers under her and supposedly she could tell her ass from her elbow. Thanks to her incompetence and her loyalties to the GOP, she did her best to help BushCo steal the 2000 election. Since then we've lost the WTC, Iraq and Afghanistan are in shambles and we've lost an American city, New Orleans. Maybe she should stay home and keep trying to wash all that blood off her hands, instead of showing up to support another criminal who has done harm to so many people.

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etherealtruth

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Sat Nov-18-06 09:27 AM
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7. Those things DO make her a "bad" Dem ...

The OP's suggestion of her being a "bad Dem" was related to attending the funeral of Foley's father ... I still don't see how that makes her a bad anything. I would not have even bothered responding to a post that described out her political life and characterized her as a "bad Dem" ... because there's nothing to dispute or comment on.

Regarding the OP: Does attending the funeral of political rivals, their friends or their families (members of opposing political parties) make them "bad Dems"?

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:05 AM
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8. I am the OP

Edited on Sat Nov-18-06 10:05 AM by DoYouEverWonder

Both Foley and LePore were instrumental in helping Bush steel the 2000 election.

Foley is also a major supporter of the Bush agenda. How many kid's lost their daddy today for Bush's war based on lies? Have Foley or LePore lifted a finger to help any of them?

Instead of attending funerals both of them should be contemplating life from their prison cells. Instead we have 'enemy combatants' in Gitmo getting tortured every day and most haven't been charged with a crime. How about their families?

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etherealtruth

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:18 AM
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9. I know you are the original postER

I was referring to the original POST.

I'm not sure what your response is related to ... ? I agree she is terrible.

In the OP (original post) the evidence of her "being a bad Dem" was related to attending the funeral ... that's a peripheral issue and proof of nothing.

I agree there is a great deal of evidence that supports the idea that she is NOT an asset to Dems ...attending the funeral is not part of that body of evidence. I've heard nothing from you that would change my mind on that particular action. We had already agreed on her political value to the Dems

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:23 AM
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10. NOT an asset to Dems?

Allowing an election to be stolen, so your friends can come to power is okay in your book?

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etherealtruth

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:47 AM
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16. WTF are you talking about?

Don't answer.

You obviously want to argue with someone ... yet on our only point of disagreement (the funeral) you remain mute ... (?)

If you really want to argue about Lapore, find someone that supports her.

If you would like to debate about whether attending the funeral for a family member of a disgraced member of an opposing political is proof of being a bad Dem, as in the OP (remember, OP in this context means original post) ... I'll play.

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Orsino

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Sat Nov-18-06 09:21 AM
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5. A show of support for Foley...

...even in a completely apolitical context, might require a kind of courage. Maybe. Or indicate some less savory connection.

Hard to tell.

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sat Nov-18-06 09:24 AM
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6. LePore now works at Foley's old high school

Edited on Sat Nov-18-06 09:25 AM by DoYouEverWonder

Small world.

LePore is now director of development at Cardinal Newman High School. She was also a classmate of Foley's at the school.

LePore told the Post she does not remember Foley and never heard of any molestation cases when she was a student at the school, which at the time was run by a religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Can't hurt to have an old friend on the inside to help destroy any incriminating records I suppose?

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crispini

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:33 AM
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11. Pretty sad that you think that sympathy for a person in grief

cannot cross party lines. I should hope that if somebody I knew lost a parent, I would be there for them, regardless of their political affiliation.

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:35 AM
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12. Le Pore a person in grief?

There no indication that she even knew Foley's father personally.

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crispini

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:43 AM
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13. He's the person in grief,

and she is showing her support for him by showing up at the funeral. I have often been to the funeral of people who I didn't know very well because I was friends with their son / daughter etc. The point is that you're going after HER as being a "bad Dem" when all she's doing is giving her support. That's not political, that's HUMAN.

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Marr

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:44 AM
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14. I'm more interested in the 2' 10" entrepreneur.

At first, when I read "Rice, who stands 2-feet-10", I thought, "Condoleeza Rice is a Hobbit?! But they're peaceful folk!".

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Nov-18-06 10:46 AM
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15. His father died

I commend the Dems for showing their respect.

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