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| House pages were warning each other about Foley in '95 | |
| 2006-10-04 | |
| Washington -- In 1995, male House pages were warned to steer clear of a freshman Republican from Florida, who was already learning the names of the teens, dashing off notes, letters and e-mail to them and asking them to join him for ice cream, according to a former page. Mark Beck-Heyman, now a graduate student in clinical psychology at George Washington University, and more than a dozen other former House pages said in interviews and via e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley was known to be extraordinarily friendly in a way that made some of them uncomfortable. Beck-Heyman, who is now a Democrat, said the attention was "weird," and he provided a handwritten letter that Foley had sent him after the page left Washington to return home to California, suggesting that they get together during the Republican National Convention in San Diego in 1996.
The e-mail exchanges that have become public in recent days are between Foley and male former pages. None of those interviewed said they had received a sexual or suggestive overture from him during their time on Capitol Hill. Yet many of them said they were uneasy about Foley's actions and felt awkward complaining to anyone about them. Foley was popular with many of the pages. The teenagers come from all over the nation to serve at the Capitol. Their schedules are tightly controlled. They travel with adult chaperones and their computers are monitored. So when they do receive extra one-on-one attention, it is a big deal. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Gary Condom. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-10-04 22:15 |
| #4 This scandel is losing it's legs. It's like the second out of the secong inning. A fly ball to the warning track. Who among us believes that mother Islam will be still till election day ? Right, real news is just around the corner. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-10-04 16:23 |
| #3 Why any parent would send their kid down to that letch pit is beyond me. I mean, really? What's Ted Kennedy gonna teach my kid? How to drink and get away with murder? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-10-04 15:44 |
| #2 So he's also a predator on top (as it were) of being a pervert. That pretty well fits the profile of many politicians. Most of them are just ethical perverts instead of sexual ones. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-04 15:34 |
| #1 GOP Leader Rebuts Hastert on Foley Reynolds: Speaker Knew of E-Mails in Spring By Jonathan Weisman and Charles Babington Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, October 1, 2006; Page A01 FIRE HIM AS WELL! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-10-04 14:51 |