Former Congressman Mark Foley Breaks Silence On Sex Scandal

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/former-congressman-mark-f_n_143196.html

NEW YORK — Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.

Sitting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York this week, the Florida Republican, wearing a yellow tie with blue elephants, finally broke his silence.

"I'm trying to find my way back," Foley said in an interview with The Associated Press, his first public comments on the scandal since resigning from Congress on Sept. 29, 2006.

Foley insists he did nothing illegal and never had sexual contact with teens, just inappropriate Internet conversations. Investigations by the FBI and Florida authorities ended without criminal charges.

And while he concedes his behavior was "extraordinarily stupid," he remains somewhat unwilling to accept full public scorn.

These were 17-year-olds, just months from being men, he insists.

(end snip)

I have no words. 14, 15, 16 year olds are just years from becoming men.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Instead of the Four Seasons and a blue elephant tie

Foley should be on cell block four wearing an orange jumpsuit.

[Crankie Avalon]

2. A hypocrite on so many levels...truly, the quintessential Republican.

On top of all the inappropriate behaviour with underage boys (all while masquerading as a champion of anti-pedophilia laws) and then the rationalization and inability to take some responsibility, these things leapt out of the article, also:

"'In public life, you dream of the day they'll name a hospital after you, or a bridge or a post office,' Foley said, twisting a gold band on his ring finger identical to one his high-society dermatologist boyfriend wears."

"While his homosexuality was said to be the worst-kept secret on the Hill and around Palm Beach, he cloaked himself in a false public persona, appearing at events with beautiful women."

Almost everything about him was a fraud. :puke:

[sarge43]

3. He's about one more twitch from blaming the kids

"They seduced me."

[NV Whino]

4. Just a suggestion, Mark...

but this might not be the best time to "find your way back."