Urgent Alert! Tell Your Representative: Don't Cover Up for a Child Sex Pre

[helderheid]

Tell Your Representative: Don't Cover Up for a Child Sex Predator

Americans were shocked to learn this past weekend that a United States Representative, Mark Foley (R-FL), had been sending sexually-explicit e-mails and instant messages to 15- and 16-year-old boys interning in the House of Representatives. But the members of the House leadership -- foremost among them Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert -- were not shocked, because they already knew.

It's become quite clear in recent days that several other high-ranking members of the House of Representatives knew about Mr. Foley's despicable (and possibly illegal) behavior for months -- and took no steps to stop it.

Could it be that the House leadership cared more about protecting one of their own than protecting the safety of their teenage pages?

Tell your Representative that they should convene a special session of the House immediately to get to the bottom of who knew what, and when.

http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=21455&afccode=n74jnb

It has also been revealed that the FBI had copies of these email messages in July -- yet failed to act. Why? Was the Bush administration more concerned with protecting a powerful ally in Congress than with protecting children?

We need to get to the bottom of this matter immediately. In March of last year, Congress rushed back into special session to intervene in the case of Terry Schiavo. They should interrupt their campaigning, return to Washington, and insist on an immediate full investigation and disclosure.

Tell your Representative -- if the case of Terry Schiavo deserved a special session, so does getting to the bottom of who protected a sexual predator in their midst.

Want to increase your impact? Share this message with everyone you know who is outraged by potentially criminal activity in the House of Representatives.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Will Easton
Manager, ActForChange.com
Working Assets

[RedEarth]

1. Damn right..................

[helderheid]

2. they can't get away with this!

[AndyA]

3. Done - and forwarded to friends! n/m

[helderheid]

4. !

[EFerrari]

5. I'll call Nancy. Question: Is the the second Republican Speaker

in a row that will resign in disgrace?

Delay was Speaker, wasn't he? That was so many scandals ago. :wow:

[helderheid]

6. that was like so 5 minutes ago!

[EFerrari]

7. Everything we've thought about Republicans turns out to be true.

:wow:

[helderheid]

8. Perfect storm?

[EFerrari]

9. Kick

[helderheid]

10. kick