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Now there's news of a sex scandal... Apparently, Rep. Mahoney is caught up in his own sex scandal: The discrepancies in where Mahoney claims his primary residence and the address listed on his voter I.D. card (a barn) are supposedly due to the fact that Mahoney and his wife no longer share the same address. Apparently, Tim Mahoney, through one of his consultants, has paid a former staffer, Trish Allen, $250,000 in hush money to keep a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Mrs. Allen against Congressman Mahoney from the public view. This is the reason for the conflicting addresses. Mrs....

Nearly two years after a Florida congressman abruptly resigned over sexually explicit messages he sent to a teenage House page, law enforcement authorities here have concluded there is “insufficient evidence” to charge him with breaking Florida laws. Commissioner Gerald Bailey of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who was asked in September 2006 to look into the conduct of the congressman, Representative Mark Foley, Republican of West Palm Beach, said Friday that investigators were hampered by Mr. Foley’s refusal and that of Congress to grant them access to Congressional computer files. The department was investigating whether Mr. Foley violated Florida’s...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ― Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said the results of a state investigation would be announced Friday. They said neither state nor federal charges were expected, although an FBI investigation has not been closed yet. Foley resigned in 2006 after being confronted with the e-mails and instant messages he sent...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) Two federal officials have told The Associated Press that no charges are expected against former Congressman Mark Foley after a lengthy investigation into his lurid computer messages to underage pages. They also told AP results of the state investigation will be announced Friday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

People of Philly... at long last... IT HAPPENED! After 24 years of waiting, at 11.37 Rome time Philadelphia's own John Cardinal Foley received the red hat and, as reported here the other day, the deaconry of St Sebastian on the Palatine Hill. Blessed be God... and John Cardinal Krol. And congrats, H-Town -- he didn't want to know his titular church until the Pope told him... and so, as Daniel Cardinal DiNardo received his biretta, he learned that the church of Sant'Eusebio on the Equiline Hill would be his. The gift of the 4th century church -- one of...

WASHINGTON — Justice Department investigators have absolved former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe of wrongdoing in his relationships with House pages, Kolbe says. In a statement Wednesday, Kolbe and his Washington lawyers said they received notice Tuesday that investigators had completed their work on the preliminary inquiry opened by federal prosecutors last fall, and saw no reason to pursue it further. Prosecutors began looking into Kolbe's relationships with House pages after hearing reports that he took a Fourth of July camping trip to the Grand Canyon with two former pages and others in 1996. The inquiry was launched amid a separate...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Deep in a violent and lawless slum just north of this coastal city, 12 men whose faces were shrouded by scarves drilled with Kalashnikovs. In unison, they lunged in one direction, turned and lunged in another. “Allah-u akbar,” the men shouted in praise to God as they fired their machine guns into a wall. The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where he trains fighters and spreads the ideology of Al Qaeda. He has...

The Mark Foley scandal, which last fall threatened to kill the congressional page program, has had the opposite effect: Interest from teenagers in the program is on the upswing. Congressional officials attribute the increase to the old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Whatever the reason, it is now clear that the national uproar over Foley's sexually explicit e-mails -- which led to the Florida congressman's resignation and contributed to the GOP majority's rout in 2006 -- has hardly chilled the ambitions of young people who want to work on Capitol Hill. Some members, including Rep....

What Did Rahm Emanuel Know about Foley Emails? The Times Doesn't Care Jeff Zeleny, former Chicago Tribune reporter, shows no interest in Chicago-based Rep. Rahm Emanuel's possible knowledge of the notorious Marc Foley emails to a page a year before they were made public. Posted by: Clay Waters 12/11/2006 2:57:03 PM New Times reporter Jeff Zeleny apparently left all his curiosity about Illinois politicians behind when he left the Chicago Tribune this fall for the Times. His Saturday story on the Foley report, "Ethics Inquiry Faults Republicans, but Cites No Rule Violations," begins: "The House ethics committee said Friday that...

Imagine for a moment that a sex scandal involving pages had forced a Democrat Congressman holding a safe seat to resign in disgrace weeks before crucial midterm elections, while also reflecting badly on other members of his Party in tight races across the country. A month after the votes had been tallied, and the Democrats had surrendered control of both chambers of Congress in a stunning defeat, a House ethics panel released a report on the subject containing the following information: * The leaks to the press concerning this matter had come from the communications director for the House Republican...

 Imagine for a moment that a sex scandal involving pages had forced a Democrat Congressman holding a safe seat to resign in disgrace weeks before crucial midterm elections, while also reflecting badly on other members of his Party in tight races across the country. A month after the votes had been tallied, and the Democrats had surrendered control of both chambers of Congress in a stunning defeat, a House ethics panel released a report on the subject containing the following information: The leaks to the press concerning this matter had come from the communications director for the House Republican Caucus ...

A new report raises questions about Rahm Emanuel’s assertion that he and his staff knew nothing about disgraced Rep. Mark Foley’s e-mails to former House pages. In an October 8 interview with ABC News, the Illinois Democrat said "no – never saw them” when asked if he knew about the e-mails or instant messages between Foley and former pages before news of the messages broke. Asked if he was "aware” of them, Emanuel repeated, "We never saw them.” But the new House Ethics Committee report on the scandal, released on December 8, discloses that a senior member of Emanuel’s staff...

What the Foley incident has taught us: First, no law was broken and under age pages were not subjected to Foley's buggering. Second, all deviates in congress must be ferreted out to preclude their hitting on our children. And not blowing the whistle on this threat could be used against a politician in a future election -- a threat right up their with bribery (although William Jefferson's (D-LA) case is an exception). The threat of a stealth gay congressman is so great that it can contribute to a lost election. While Foley has not been accused of having sex with...

FROM THE CLINTONS' TERRORISM FAILURE TO THE FOLEY HIT:connecting the dots

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public, a campaign committee aide told CNN. Foley, a Republican, resigned after the scandal broke. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans have suggested repeatedly that some Democrats knew about the e-mails earlier than they have acknowledged, but waited till midterm elections approached to bring up the issue. Emanuel's campaign committee aide said Friday that the Illinois Democrat was informed in 2005, but never saw the correspondence...

In testimony to the House ethics committee investigating the Mark Foley page scandal, the House's former administrator described outgoing Rep. Jim Kolbe as a "nuisance" who "spent far too much time socially interacting with the pages," according to the committee's report released Friday. The comments from former Clerk of the House Jeff Trandahl, who oversaw the Congressional Page Program, were only part of an investigative report that found no evidence any current lawmakers or aides violated any rules, and recommended no sanctions. In its findings and recommendations, however, the panel went on to say there were a "significant number of...

HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE FINDINGS: RAHM EMANUEL LIED [FOLEY A LIKELY CLINTON HIT JOB] by Mia T, 12.09.06 SEE RAHM DANCE THE CLINTON-FOLEY NEXUS: A THEORY part 2   by Mia T, 10.14.06 ahm Emanuel, ballet dancer, "operations researcher," "pit bull," 1 clinton operator still 2 -- Chicago pol 3 in tights meets the clinton jackboot 28 -- appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos last Sunday. While it was not the stagily self-conscious performance of bill clinton on Fox two weeks earlier, 4 like clinton's performance, it was embarrassingly amateurish by today's standards. 5 The pirouette and grand jeté...

WASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers and aides left male pages vulnerable to Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s improper sexual advances even though the first concerns surfaced more than a decade ago, the ethics committee said Friday in its report into an election-year scandal that convulsed the House. The committee said one witness testified he warned the head of the page board, Illinois Rep. John Shimkus (news, bio, voting record), a year ago that Foley was a "ticking time bomb" who had been confronted repeatedly. Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., likely was told about inappropriate e-mails written by Foley last spring,...

WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee has concluded that Republican leaders did not break any rules in handling ex-Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s improper advances to former male pages but were negligent in protecting the teenagers, a congressional aide said Friday. The committee was releasing its findings Friday. The aide, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, was made aware of the committee's findings. "The Republicans did not break rules but were negligent in protecting the pages," the aide said.

Some Political Tidbits and there's some good ones. Poor Foley, hasn't he suffered enough? Now he's being investigated. John Kerry banished from the picture and John Edwards bashes Walmart one day than begs from them the next. You'll never believe this video. A plot to kill the Supreme court and Gay Penguins?

Seems like just yesterday Republicans were warning Democrats not to count their hicks before they were catched. Democrats said they had a plan to get the guys with the Confederate flags, but Republicans said you can’t con those folks into loving federal overreach. Democrats said they could draw pro-life votes, but Republicans scoffed: “We’re the pros. Get a life!” Democrats said they could attract budget-balancers and Republicans countered: “That is our constituency and you can’t budge it.” Well, bite your tongues, all you RNC guys and gals with the starched collars. Them there rubes done drug you out the door....

From President Bush's post-Election November 8th Press Conference:Amid this time of change, I have a message for those on the front lines. To our enemies: Do not be joyful. Do not confuse the workings of our democracy with a lack of will. Our nation is committed to bringing you to justice. Liberty and democracy are the source of America's strength, and liberty and democracy will lift up the hopes and desires of those you are trying to destroy.Read the entire speech. It's worth the listen. Now, I don't think our enemies should dictate the will of our people one way...

NEW YORK - A musician who wrote the 1970s pop tunes "Still the One" and "Dance with Me" toppled a longtime Republican lawmaker after a campaign that merged his minor-league celebrity with anti- Iraq war momentum and YouTube. John Hall, who founded the band Orleans and produced albums for Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt, ousted Rep. Sue Kelly, who swept into office as part of the 1994 GOP revolution. "When I make a record, it's 110 percent, when I run for office, it's 110 percent," Hall said. On his nightly Comedy Central show, TV faux-news anchor Stephen Colbert...

The Democrats seem to have taken over the House. That means that, regardless how the cliff-hanger races in the Senate turn out, the key question is whether the Republican leaders will shed their arrogance and understand that they need to listen to the American people. Even if recounts and razor-thin margins deliver the Senate into Republican hands by the narrowest of margins, 2006 is a major defeat for the GOP and only a fool would deny it. In Iraq, obviously, America is delivering a message that if we keep shedding blood to battle for democracy in Iraq, the GOP will...

THEY'RE PUNCHING FOLEY FOR JOE [Byron York] Just talked to Todd Harris, spokesman for the Joe Negron campaign, trying to win the old Mark Foley seat in the 16th District of Florida. No reports of people having trouble with the concept of voting for Foley in order to vote for Negron, Harris says. He attributes that to heavy media coverage and discussion about the ballot in recent weeks. "At this stage, you would have had to been living under a rock or coming down from a four-week bender to not know how the ballot works in this district," Harris tells...

Love to get up in the morning and tune in to DNN and see them lie, and this morning was no different. They were showing cameras they have around the country and one was in the distric in Florida which Foley represented. MIles O'Brien said that the race was surprising close, and that the people who wanted to vote for the Republican candidate, Negron (whom he did not name), had to write in the candidates (again did not use Negron's name) name. This is a blatant lie, the actual procedure in Florida is to "Punch Foley' to "Vote for Negron'....

Pop star Moby, known for his political statements as well as his music, says he'd do everything he could to make his future child homosexual should the singer ever have a family. He's also blasting conservatives Tom DeLay, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich as "amoral/immoral" right wingers. In an interview with Planet Out, a publication geared toward homosexuals, the musician, who is not "gay," was lamenting so-called homophobia in society when he suggested his future child should be raised to be a homosexual. "As a matter of fact, I was talking to my friend Laura, who sings on...

Oh No, Massa! N.Y. Democrat Candidate Faced with Foley-Style Problem Posted by Tim Graham on November 4, 2006 - 11:39. Via the Sixers blog on NRO, we learn that the George Stephanopoulos pledge that the Mark Foley scandal would resonate in every congressional race sometimes comes true. Consider that in upstate New York, the shoe is on other foot, the Democratic foot, embarrassing the challenger to first-term Congressman Randy Kuhl. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports: (November 2, 2006) — CORNING — Democratic congressional candidate Eric Massa fired his campaign manager in June and has accused him of providing alcohol to...

In connection with media coverage of the Mark Foley sex scandal, the pro-homosexual media enforcers have been attempting to refute the idea that there is any connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. Yet Foley targeted young boys. This is something you are not supposed to write or talk about because it undermines the cause of homosexual rights. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth says, "isn't it telling most of the tiny number of homosexual male U.S. Congressmen have been caught in sex scandals-remember Barney Frank, who let his male lover, a hustler, run a prostitution ring out of his D.C. apartment?...

NYT: Mark Foley's congressional seat now 'a tossup' between Tim Mahoney, the Democrat, and state Rep. Joe Negron, the last-minute Republican replacement... Developing...

Mark Foley and James Webb -- A Study in Hypocrisy and Media Bias Written by Doc Farmer Tuesday, October 31, 2006 ChronWatch.com I'm sure all of you know the name Mark Foley by now. He is -- or, more accurately, was -- the Congressman for the 16th district in Florida, who sent some very sexual Instant Messages (NOT e-Mails, okay?) to a congressional Page. There's been some question as to whether the Page was 16 or 18 when those IMs were being sent, but it doesn't matter to me quite frankly. Foley was wrong, he violated the trust of his...

TALLAHASSEE - Elections supervisors in eight counties can post signs at polling places that say a vote for the disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is really a vote for his Republican replacement, as long as they name the Democrat, too, the 1st District Court of Appeal said Friday. Despite Foley's resignation nearly a month ago amid accusations that he sent lurid e-mails to congressional pages, his name is stuck on the ballot. While more than 11,000 voters in the 16th Congressional District have already cast votes without signs during early voting, the signs will go up and stay up,...

My area of Florida has a wonderful early voting system in place, and I was able to vote the other day. I had to present my driver’s license, thus preventing voter fraud so prevalent in some areas, and I voted using a touch-screen computerized machine. The early voting system meant no lines, and the whole process took about 5-10 minutes – even with several lengthy amendments to consider. I was very pleased that Florida has a constitutional amendment on the ballot that should end using eminent domain to take private property to turn over to other private owners – a...

Negron Signs Going Up The First District Court of Appeal ruled that signs can go up saying a vote for Foley is a vote for Negron, if they also say a vote for Mahoney is a vote for Mahoney. The appellate court both upheld and reversed parts of the lower court which granted an injunction stopping signs from being posted in polling places in counties in the 16th Congressional district. The order prohibits the Secretary of State from posting its signs, which only mention Negron for Foley. The Judges said those signs "suggest favoritism on behalf of the Republican candidate."...

Ex-Dem staffer behind get-Foley nysterious blog? John Cook of Radar has put a name on the mysterious person who seems to have set up the bogus Stopsexpredators blog that was instrumental in outing Mark Foley in a premature October Surprise op. The Human Rights Campaign was quick to disavow and fire the (at the time) unnamed worker for it. But through research, Cook discovered that the only person who fit the description offered by HRC (incidentally, a Soros-funded operation) was Lane Hudson. There is no firm confirmation, but only one person meets the description.And Lane Hudson turns out to...

A bit of good news for the GOP in Florida-16: The First District Court of Appeal ruled that signs can go up saying a vote for Foley is a vote for Negron, if they also say a vote for Mahoney is a vote for Mahoney. The appellate court both upheld and reversed parts of the lower court which granted an injunction stopping signs from being posted in polling places in counties in the 16th Congressional district. The order prohibits the Secretary of State from posting its signs, which only mention Negron for Foley. The Judges said those signs "suggest favoritism...

I'm GLAD this came out. Anyone who thinks their life is not an open book should not run for political office. I think the potential, fair or not (and I think that it is fair), is for a political "Perfect Storm" to come out of this for Republicans. Democrats, such as Chris Dodd from Connecticut, have ALREADY come out defending Jim Webb. He was on Imus this morning. To me, Imus represents the left of center Independent vote. Imus was talking about this being sick and how uncomfortable he was with it. He then asked Dodd if he wanted to...

Radar has learned that the anony-blogger behind StopSexPredators—the bogus blog that first posted the Mark Foley e-mails and got the ball rolling on PageGate—is a former Democratic Senate staffer named Lane Hudson.

PAPER PUBLISHES WRONG PHOTO OF ALLEGED FOLEY SEX CLERGY Fri Oct 20 2006 08:13:31 ET Editors at the SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE on Friday issued a correction over a photo that ran with their exclusive Foley sex story. "The HERALD-TRIBUNE published the wrong photo with its story identifying the priest who may have sexually abused former Rep. Mark Foley," the paper said. "The photo was not of Anthony Mercieca, the Malta priest who Foley's lawyer says abused Foley." The correction was issued after the photo aired worldwide on TV and on the web. [CNN: 'You are looking at the preist who...'] The...

WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group, has fired an employee who admitted to the first publication on a Web site of Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s e-mails to a former male page. The e-mails and later disclosures of sexually explicit computer messages from the Florida Republican to other male pages sparked a campaign-season scandal that threatens the GOP's majority in Congress. "He inappropriately used Human Rights Campaign resources. He was fired," organization Vice President David Smith said of the employee. "The Human Rights Campaign believes in being very aboveboard in our political activity." Smith...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 — A liberal gay rights group said Wednesday that one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation. A spokesman for the group, the Human Rights Campaign, said it first learned of its employee’s role this week and immediately fired him for misusing the group’s resources. The scandal surrounding Mr. Foley, a Florida Republican, has been a burdensome distraction for members of his party in the month before the midterm elections, and some Republicans...

A liberal gay rights group said Wednesday that one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation.

Calling the Gay Mailers Bluff The mysterious blog spot (stopsexpredators) that first reported Mark Foley’s original ambiguous emails to a former page, has been tracked to Human Rights Campaign, a purportedly non-partisan group that  claims to advance the interests of lesbian,gay , bi-sexual and transgendered citizens (LGBT in this era of Balkanized interest groups). It is headed by Joe Solomonese, a  pro-abortion activist with ties to George Soros.One blog site that has been tracking the SSP site, warns that if HRC doesn’t come clean about its role in this Republican gay outing campaign, it will be exposed on Friday: Open...

Democratic hopes that evangelical Christians, outraged over ex-Rep. Mark Foley's sex scandal, will stay home on Election Day appear to have gone up in smoke....recent Rasmussen Reports surveys conclude Foley's salacious e-mails have caused "limited, if any" impact on evangelical support for the GOP. Data from 15 statewide election surveys found that evangelical support for the GOP candidate increased in eight races and slumped in seven....... a survey of 15,000 Americans revealed that 32.4% consider themselves Republicans - up a point from a pre-scandal poll - indicating no evangelical movement away from the GOP...."Clearly, there is not a huge evangelical...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert testified in private before ethics investigators Tuesday and then said they should work quickly to find out who knew about Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s come-ons to congressional pages and what was done about it. Hastert spoke briefly after his closed-door testimony to the House ethics committee that is trying to pin down when he and his staff learned about Foley's actions. "I answered all the questions they asked to the best of my ability," Hastert said after testifying for almost three hours. "I also said that they need to move quickly...

Evangelical Christians are not going to blame the entire Republican Party for the individual sins of former Rep. Mark Foley. According to a series of 15 statewide surveys by Rasmussen Reports taken since the Foley resignation, evangelical support for the GOP has actually increased in eight states and dropped in seven. The New York Post reports that Democrats, who have hoped that the Foley scandal would discourage more conservative voters from voting on Election Day, may be disappointed with regard to turnout among evangelicals. Rasmussen Reports found that only 15 percent of nearly 15,000 Americans surveyed care about the Foley...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- In response to national exposure of his sexually explicit emails to teenage boys, former Congressman Mark Foley announced that he is “gay,” was molested by an older man as a teenager, and has entered an alcohol rehabilitation facility. The Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual Republican group, and the Human Rights Campaign, a gay activist group, publicly endorsed Foley’s voting record and candidacy. “Both groups oppose the message of hope for overcoming unwanted same-sex attractions by denying the facts that ex-gays do exist and that change is possible. We want Mr. Foley to know that...

FRONT PAGE on MSNBC.com this morning...SKIRTING THE RULESFormer members of congressional program describe lawmaker’s advances (Wow, what an exclusive! Foley made advances towards pages? I had no idea!)

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