WP: Foley Built Career as Protector of Children

[kskiska]

He Gained Attention by Fighting Sex Crimes

The Republican congressman who resigned Friday following the discovery of sexually explicit Internet messages he sent to teenage boys was a gregarious and charismatic lawmaker who built his political career in large measure on legislative proposals meant to halt the sexual predation of children and others.

Beginning with his 1993 sponsorship of a measure in the Florida state legislature to seize the cars of men who solicited prostitutes, former restaurant owner and real estate agent Mark Foley repeatedly attracted a flattering political spotlight by inveighing against those involved in sexual crimes and presenting himself as a protector of exploited children.

A well-liked member of the class of conservatives elected to Congress in 1994, Foley was until two days ago a deputy whip for the House Republicans and a co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. A Web site for the bipartisan group states that it was formed to "create a voice within Congress" on that issue and to operate a hotline for tips about "online child sexual exploitation" that could be passed to law enforcement agencies.

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During the congressional debate in 1998 over President Bill Clinton's affair with a White House intern, Foley called Clinton's actions vile and told the St. Petersburg Times that "it's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."

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[kestrel91316]

1. Fox? Henhouse?? Ya think????????

[Lost-in-FL]

2. No child left untouched behind?

:+

[Dudemachine]

10. Or "No child's behind left untouched"...? n/t

[Lost-in-FL]

14. Much better...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. Leave no Child's behind.

The true state of affairs, what with today's relevations about a neocon experimental gorup getting so much in federal funding.

[Erika]

3. Foley needs help

as does his party.

[ShortnFiery]

4. OMG!

That is sick! He needs JAIL in addition to help. :grr:

[Cobalt Violet]

5. Check out the "Patriot Page".

http://www.heritagebaptistpsl.com/gpage1.html




"Mark Foley takes some time to interact with our children. Here he poses for a picture with Caleb DeBerry and Timothy Parker"


I tried to email them but they don't have their email page linked to an email address, just their web page.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. 24 hours later, the page has mysteriously vanished

:rofl:

[daleo]

6. I had wondered what he had said about Clinton

"it's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction"

I wonder if Foley was hitting on boys at the time? It is hard to believe that such a predilection would come on after the age of 50.

[marshall]

9. those with the worst problems complain the loudest

Maybe it's part of their problem. Maybe they are trying to deny their own problem by decrying it the loudest in others.

There can NEVER be a consensual sexual relationship between two people of such differing levels of power, regardless of age. They need to institute a hands off policy for these student volunteers the same as universities have between professors and students.

[lovuian]

7. Jeb Bush has lost 100's of children in the Foster Program

and now Foley... Florida is a hotbed of activity

[driver8]

8. I asked my friend at dinner tonight, "Isn't putting Foley in as chairman

of missing and exploited children kind of luck letting Jeffrey Dahmer run the schools' lunch programs?".

[w4rma]

11. Republicans *always* do the opposite of what they say they do.

Clean Skies = More air pollution
Leave No Child Behind = Leave them all behind, and their schools and teachers too
War on Terrorism = War to Create more terrorists
democracy to a Republican = corporatism, cronyism and fascism
etc. etc.

It would appear that on the issue of pedophilia it is no different.

[cassiepriam]

12. Common with pedophiles, they get jobs working with children. nt

[dreamsvsnightmares]

13. This is the part that really bothers me. These fat assed bastards are

over paid and under worked, Yet people will still re-elect them as long as they continue to bring home the pork. Ethics do not count as long as you control the government thus the money. Thank you Jesus send the money our way and the hell with ethics. This is now what this country has become. Start changing it or we are screwed.

[cassiepriam]

17. A county running on pure greed. No one cares how it is done,

Just as long as the money flows into their wallets.