Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Dump House Leader for Protecting Foley

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I am not so sure I can let Hastert off so easily. This kind of thing is probably well known. I have no doubt that Foley was doing similar actions all the way back to 1995 when he was elected. It is hard to hide this sort of thing because these teenage boys will talk to each other. Indeed this article would sustantiate my claim:

 

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061004-064058-6521r

 

Now that does not mean the republicans knew for sure, but it raises a number questions to me. Of course, with this type of information out there that early, I find it surprising that the democrats did not know about it as well. These types of rumors spread faster than a California wild fire.

 

So we have to ask ourselves a question, why now? We should also ask ourselves what did the members of congress know before. The incident Hastert refers to is one issue and is not all that much compared to what the latest incident is. To be honest I think the story is one of those situations where congresspersons, both democrat and republican have probably heard the rumors but wrote the rumors off as just rumors.

 

I have no doubt that more people knew of Foley's appetite before now.

 

On 10/4/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Brent Deterding wrote:

> Unless I'm missing something this seems like a bigass political play and
> nothing more (which is expected). I'm not blaming the dems or anything,
> just pointing out that the claims of inaction and predatory/illegal
> emails are blown out of proportion IMHO.

The predatory/illegal stuff was just discovered, but it exists.  The email
about birthday gifts, "pics", etc., was all Hastert and others knew about,
I think, but we can't know for sure.  Many will claim that Hastert should
have investigated more thoroughly.  We might learn more about it during
the next couple of weeks.

Mike

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