Republican to resign from House page board

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Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says she is resigning from the board that oversees House pages because of communication problems with the House leadership.

Capito announced her resignation Thursday. She says board members can't address problems with the page system without better communication.

Capito says there have been incidents this year where board members didn't receive timely information.

The West Virginia Republican did not elaborate in a statement released by her office.
The board became prominent last year when Capito said she wasn't told of an investigation into former Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley's e-mail exchanges with a male teenage page.

Three House members sit on the board.

http://wvgazette.com/section/Breaking/000001246

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1. Actually, two rethugs are hanging it up, and blaming Dems:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2419146&mesg_id=2419146

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2. 2 are stepping down from the page board.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/12/another_sexually_charged_house.html?hpid=topnews

So much for reform of the House page program in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal. House teenage pages are so wild and unsupervised that two GOP members of Congress have resigned from the House Page Board, protesting that they were not informed of two pages caught shoplifting and two others busted for engaging in public oral sex.

One of the members who resigned, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, tells the Sleuth that she felt "very, very uncomfortable" both as a mother and a grandmother continuing to serve on a board she feels is inadequately supervised.

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3. its probably cause they're not getting as much action any more....n/t