Foley scandal a local issue for Reynolds

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While the Foley scandal has been a problem for Republicans generally, it has special complications for Rep. Tom Reynolds.
Around her, the Green Acre Farm and Nursery is busy with customers snapping up apples, pumpkins and pots of mums. But co-owner Janice Hassett is happy to take a minute to vent about the local Republican congressman, Rep. Tom Reynolds, and his role in the Mark Foley page scandal.

"The whole thing makes me sick," says Hassett, 33, a staunch Republican in this staunchly Republican Rochester suburb, and -- until now -- a Reynolds voter. "My opinion of congressmen in general continues to go down, and now to have it happen in our own backyard is a shame. It's just horrible."

Seventy-five or so miles away in the Buffalo suburb of North Tonawanda, at the other end of New York's 26th Congressional District, Karen Eggert says pretty much the same thing about Reynolds, who has been under fire for not doing enough last spring when he learned about unusually personal e-mails from Foley that had upset a 16-year-old former page from Louisiana and his parents.

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"If the Republican lose this district," said Jim Campbell, a University of Buffalo political scientist, "they've lost the House."

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[YDogg]

1. I hope Reynolds loses. He has such a pathetic attitude ...

... about what he did.