Mark Foley and George dubai Bush measuring---it ain't fish
A year later, Mark Foley fallout lingers
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/nation/epaper/2007/09/30/m1a_FOLEYnew_0930.htmlBy Larry Lipman
Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau
Sunday, September 30, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party was on the ropes...
...Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, an Episcopal priest who is executive director of Political Research Associates, a progressive think tank, said Republicans are caught between their message and human nature. "They're pretty much stuck with their self-righteous moralizing," she said. "If you can't change the message and you can't change human nature, then you're pretty much left with how to batten down the hatches ... when you are caught."...
...What Foley, now 53, did was check into a rehab center in the Arizona mountains almost immediately after he resigned from his $165,200-a-year position. And after years of refusing to discuss his sexual orientation publicly, he acknowledged through his attorney that he is gay. Six weeks after entering rehab, Foley returned to Palm Beach County to attend his father's funeral. In May, he sold his townhouse a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, making a $660,000 profit. He could start receiving a $32,000 annual pension when he turns 62, or about $22,400 a year if he begins taking it at 56, according to estimates from the National Taxpayer's Union, a nonpartisan taxpayer advocacy group. The pension would grow with inflation...
FIRST COMMENT to above article:
By REPORTER JO
Sep 30, 2007 1:47 PM
Funny thing - a story appeared in the Palm Beach SUN, ( a small local monthly paper) about 2 months ago about how nothing had been written about Foley in the major daily papers, that he had been allowed to drift into a black hole with no additional press coverage after the scandal subsided and he got out of "rehab". Now this story appears. Seems the tail (small local paper) is wagging the dog (The Post