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Foley Resigns Over Sexually Explicit Emails (Or, "...sick sick sick sick sick.")

Buh-bye

Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) planned to resign today, hours after ABC questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former Congressional pages under the age of 18.

Hours earlier, ABC News had read excerpts of instant messages provided by former pages who said the congressman, under the AOL Instant Messenger screen name Maf54, made repeated references to sexual organs and acts.

From yesterday's ABC story:

In the series of e-mails, obtained by ABC News, from Rep. Foley (R-FL) to the former page, Foley asks the young man how old he is, what he wants for his birthday and requests a photo of him.

The concerned young man alerted congressional staffers to the e-mails. In one e-mail, the former page writes to a staffer, "Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously. This freaked me out."

Understandable.

The e-mails were sent from Foley's personal AOL account, and the exchange began within weeks after the page finished his program on Capitol Hill. In one, Foley writes, "did you have fun at your conference…what do you want for your birthday coming up…what stuff do you like to do."

In another Foley writes, "how are you weathering the hurricane…are you safe…send me an email pic of you as well…"

The young man forwarded that e-mail to a congressional staffer saying it was "sick sick sick sick sick."

Posted by Julian Brookes on 09/29/06 at 12:29 PM | E-mail | Print

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Comments

Is this not the same Mark Foley that helped steal the Presidential Election in 2000? C'mon Bush show some compassion let him stay at your house.

Posted by: Fainstadt on 09/30/06 at 7:10 AM

Mark Foley: is he not one of the congressman who helped steal the election for Bush in 2000? Maybe Bush will show some of that "compassion" and let him stay at the ranch.

Posted by: fainstadt on 09/30/06 at 7:13 AM

This is to common for the Christian right it is happen to often. Like out from the start it was the democrats trying to smear Foley. They had time to ease Foley out and put someone else in his place. Could it be the Bush right wing had Foley just where they wanted him. If he was re-elected he was under their control,vote and do what Bush and Christian right wanted, or would it be more correct to say anti-christian right

Posted by: shenanigan on 09/30/06 at 5:34 PM

Typical Republican

Posted by: seattledem on 10/02/06 at 10:09 AM