Aide says he reported Foley 3 years ago
By DEVLIN BARRETT and DAVID ESPO, Associated Press Writers 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert's political support showed signs of cracking on Wednesday as Republicans fled an election-year scandal spawned by steamy computer messages from former Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) to teenage male pages.
At the same time, Foley's former chief of staff said in an Associated Press interview that he first warned Hastert's aides more than three years ago that Foley's behavior toward pages was troublesome. That was long before GOP leaders acknowledged learning of the problem.
Kirk Fordham, who was Foley's top aide until January 2004, said he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene" several years ago.
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2006-10-04 18:00:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
The public's opinon of Congress has been and still is exceedingly low. Perhaps they wanted to hide the actions of Mark Foley to keep the public from loosing additional confidance in them. If the republicans and democrats keep behaving in morally reprehensible ways, I am hoping that independents are able to nudge their way into the political arena. I don't know what anybody else thinks, but I am ready for a breath of fresh air.
2006-10-04 18:14:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's called partisan politics. Better to save face then admit guilt. The repubs who new early on figured his seat was more important than what crimes he was committing. The 100k donation Foley made to the RNCC didn't hurt much either!!
2006-10-05 01:19:00 · answer #2 · answered by scottyurb 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One needs to ask why?
They kept it a secret to try and keep the egg off their faces. Morally better, my eye.
2006-10-05 01:07:57 · answer #3 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It was nothing but another typical Republican cover-up.
2006-10-05 01:21:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hastert is being singled out why didnt the DEMOCRAPS do something about it why didnt they ALL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT??????????????????????????
2006-10-05 01:07:39 · answer #5 · answered by chefgoudah 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋