Posted on 10/04/2006 10:49:48 AM PDT by areafiftyone
FORMER FOLEY CHIEF OF STAFF KIRK FORDHAM RESIGNS AMID QUESTIONS OVER WHETHER HE SUPRESSED INFORMATION ABOUT FOLEY EMAILS
And the hits just keep on coming.
How can he resign if he was "former"?.........
Doesn't the chief of staff usually lose their job if the person they're chief for resigns?
Top GOP Staffer Reportedly Fired for Role in Page Scandal
October 04, 2006 1:44 PM
Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report:
Jake Tapper contributed to this report.
The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, was reportedly fired today for his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill.
Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, reportedly urged Republican leaders not to raise questionable Foley e-mails with the full Congressional Page Board, made up of two Republicans and a Democrat.
"He begged them not to tell the page board," said one of the Republican sources.
People familiar with Fordham's side of the story, however, said Fordham was being used as a scapegoat by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
They said Fordham had repeatedly warned Hastert's staff about Foley's "problem" with pages, but little was done.
The complaint about Foley was brought to the chairman of the page board, Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL), last spring, and he then consulted with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Jeff Trandahl.
At Fordham's urging, according to the sources, the matter was not given to the full board, and instead Congressman Foley was privately approached and told to stop all contact with the page he had been e-mailing.
"This is something we should have been aware of, and we weren't, and I'm very unhappy about that," said Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), who also serves on the page board.
The Democrat on the page board, Congressman Dale Kildee (D-MI), said it was "unprecedented" to have handled the matter without informing the board members.
Fordham was also instrumental in orchestrating Foley's abrupt resignation last week hours after ABC News confronted the congressman with sexually explicit instant messages allegedly sent to pages.
Fordham offered ABC News a deal if it would not publish the content of the instant messages.
"He said we could have the exclusive on the resignation if we did not run direct quotes from the instant messages," said Maddy Sauer, the ABC News producer who dealt with Fordham.
ABC News refused to make any such deal.
Capitol Hill sources say Fordham's firing is being demanded by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, whose job is on the line because of his handling of the page scandal.
Repeated phone calls to Fordham for comment have not been returned.
Good question....what did he "resign" from?
Yea What's the difference - he's not working for any congressman - Foley resigned!
How can he resign if he was "former"?.........
good point. If Foley is no longer a Congressman he really isn't quitting from anything?!??
Thanks so much for the update!
Resigns from what? Fired from what? He was already out of work, right?
is boss quit..therefore he had no job, how could he resign from a non-job????
no prob, I must have clicked on it right after they put it up!
>>The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, was reportedly fired today for his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill.
Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, reportedly urged Republican leaders not to raise questionable Foley e-mails with the full Congressional Page Board, made up of two Republicans and a Democrat.
The MSM sounding more like Oprah everyday.
Hello? He used to work for Foley now he works for another member. He's still an employee of the House.
See Post #5
He is/was Tom Reynolds chief of staff, formerly Foley's.
While he was formally Foley's Chief of Staff, he was (up until today) working for Rep. Reynolds, and he quit (or was fired) from his staff.
I am thinking that he is now working for someone else. I read on one of those expose' threads that he is suspected of having accessed Foley's emails and IMs and turning them over to the gay outers. The guy is a fool, he has ended his career. I don't think that even a Democrat would hire him, now.
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