Hastert alerted to Foley matter, two say

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http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/10/20/100wir_a10foley001.cfm

WASHINGTON - Two key congressional figures testified before a House ethics panel Thursday about their roles in the Mark Foley scandal, reportedly sticking to accounts indicating that Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., or his top aides were alerted to concerns about the disgraced Florida lawmaker's behavior toward teenage pages before it became public.

The committee spent more than four hours questioning Jeff Trandahl, a central figure who has remained publicly silent about the affair. As House clerk from 1999 through last year, Trandahl oversaw the page program and dealt with several complaints about the actions of Foley, a Republican, who abruptly resigned Sept. 29 as ABC News was reporting on sexually graphic electronic messages he exchanged with former pages.

Trandahl joined Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the House page board, in quietly confronting Foley last fall about e-mails that the lawmaker had sent to a Louisiana boy, which the youth and his parents found troubling. Those e-mails were not nearly as explicit as the messages that emerged later from other sources.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Clerks: "Hasty a lying republicon pervert protector"

As you already knew...

[helderheid]

2. recommended. What do you bet there was a "boys club" of some sort

[KoKo]

3. Kick...one more piece of info...n/t

[DemonFighterLives]

4. The Sex capade just keeps on rolling

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[The Count]

5. Cocktober keeps rolling on....How low can they get?

I am remembering Delay saying he'll be vindicated ....
What a classless bunch of thugs...go away already!
is there a dem running in his district?