Why DiD Foley Get To Keep Job With Child Protection When Repubs Knew....?

[kpete]

Why did Foley keep child-protection job?
Posted by Frank James

One of the most troubling parts of the emerging scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley, the Florida Republican who sent sexually suggestive emails to teenaged congressional pages, is this: he chaired the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.

Foley carved out a role for himself as a congressional leader on the issue of exploited children, and is credited with authoring important sections of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 which President Bush signed into law this summer.

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He worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children whose website has pictures of him presenting awards to law enforcement officers and children who survived and or helped bring child predators to justice.

It would be a fascinating psychological study to try and understand how Foley could be both sending such emails to high schoolers while at the same time fighting against child predators. He is like the firefighter who turns out to also be an arsonist.

more at:
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/09/why_did_foley_k.html

[Joanne98]

1. It's ridiculous!

[redphish]

2. They probably would have had him fall on his sword eventually.

The were just hoping to do it after the elections and it blew up in their faces.

[havocmom]

3. mebby he knew things about them they don't want their mothers to hear?

Some people say there is a big ring of people with hobbies like Foley's among the power brokers on the Hill and along the Beltway.

;) have decided I like playing FAUX's Some people say... game :evilgrin:

[librechik]

4. my suspicion is that Foley had as much on them as they had on him

Greedy Old Perverts protect each other's asses, so to speak.

[Poiuyt]

5. Why did Foley get to keep his job in Congress?

Why was there a coverup?

[hedda_foil]

6. Honey, it's all politics for them

They couldn't give a good goddamn about exploited children or anything else except their own power and money.

[acmejack]

8. Now that, I believe.

[Toots]

7. Remember the drug smuggler that plastered his packages with DARE stickers

That is the Republican MO.....

[Jacobin]

9. Why were pedophile priests sent back to be with other children

in a different parish?

Coverup and corruption.

[displacedtexan]

10. Why isn't anyone mentioning Tom DeLay?

The Bug Man was majority leader in 2003 when this scandal started brewing big time.

[helderheid]

11. and other firefighters knew he was an arsonist and left him alone...

with matches.