Reynolds convinced Foley to run for reelection.
By on Oct 4th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Reynolds convinced Foley to run for reelection.
“A member of the House leadership told me that Foley…was considering not seeking a seventh term this year but that Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), talked him into running,” Bob Novak reports. According to Novak, this occured after Reynolds knew Foley sent inappropriate emails to a congressional page.
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I wonder how rep. Reynolds will try and spin this news?
“I didn’t know about the really nasty e-mails, I just thought he was too friendly! Honest!”
How pathetic can the Republicans get in their tacit support for 52 year old man-on-16 year old boy sexual predators?
October 4th, 2006 at 10:46 amTo enable other’s to continue with their crimes make’s the enabler just as guilty…Boot all the basterds out…..Blessings, we realy need them now…Peace, for the world and all the children….Bring light and truth to the evils of our world…..
October 4th, 2006 at 10:47 amthat’s ONE MORE SEAT for the dems, folks!
October 4th, 2006 at 10:49 amWow! I like it when TP uses Novak for a dependable source.
October 4th, 2006 at 10:51 amMorning all.
Hey, take a moment to look at this IMPORTANT REVELATION by Don Asmussen in today’s SF Chronicle.
It sure tied up some loose ends in my mind….
October 4th, 2006 at 10:52 amAnybody else hear the caller from West Palm Beach on C-SPAN yesterday? During Melanie Sloan’s segment a neighbor of Foley’s called to announce that Foley had “sexually explicit” (his phrase) parties all the time, everyone who lives near him knows about them, & that very young men were always there. The moderator asked if the men looked underage or like teenagers. Caller said yeah, but he “wasn’t checking their IDs.”
Mark Foleygate- the gift that keeps on giving. If it was that obvious to W. Palm Beach locals, how about the Miami Herald et al?
October 4th, 2006 at 10:53 amFoley is an alcoholic. Foley was abused by the clergy. Foley is in rehab because he has accepted his problematic behavior. What other card phony card will he play next?
October 4th, 2006 at 10:56 amNever put a sure Republican seat in question. No matter that Reynolds knew about Foley – Foley was surely going to win if he ran, so it is party before people every time with the repugs.
October 4th, 2006 at 10:58 amEven some of those who knew him are questioning the alcoholic claim.
It seems pretty clear that he went into rehab so he could escape the spotlight for a month.
His excuses are lame and I doubt many people believe him.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:00 am@ 10:53…er…should be ….”What other phony card will he play next?”
October 4th, 2006 at 11:00 amWas this before or after Foley gave Reynolds $100,000 contribution?
http://comlogic.blogspot.com/
October 4th, 2006 at 11:00 amThe Republican leadership wanted to make sure the underage congressional pages would have continuing access to unwanted sexual advances from a creepy old man. Consider the government’s integrity restored!
October 4th, 2006 at 11:03 amExcuse #431…..and and and I fell off my bicycle when I was 4 and hurt my little head.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:03 amIsn’t Reynolds the guy that sorrounded himself with kids during a recent news conference? Class act all the way.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:04 amI find it laughable that Foley would try the alcoholic claim, after all when Mel Gibson drank it they called it ‘Truth Serum’ a short while ago, The Neo-cons have ‘framed’ that word quite nicely.
bwahahaaaa
October 4th, 2006 at 11:05 amit’s like they all have the same media manager…..Bob Novak
October 4th, 2006 at 11:10 ambill moyers on sam seder, any minute now…
October 4th, 2006 at 11:18 amairamericaradio.com … listen live (at upper right)
Is there a cabal in the republican house?
October 4th, 2006 at 11:19 amYou’re right. We should condemn Reynolds for talking him out of public office. Shameful! The man has rights, by God!
October 4th, 2006 at 11:42 amReynolds just wanted to keep the hush money coming from his patsey.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:44 am#14
Yeah – it was Reynolds.
It was his version of a “human shield.”
Sick tactic.
Hard to ask “certain questions” with all those little ears up there on the podium with him.
Life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
This is something I would expect from the Simpsons’ “Montgomery Burns.” The sad thing is that “Burns” is the figment of some person’s imagination. A person that is paid to introduce weird behavior via the “Burns” character.
Reynolds, however, is a real person who thought up this sh#t on his own.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:49 amYou knew Novakula would have to drive by this car wreck.
October 4th, 2006 at 12:09 pmHere’s one of the Smoking Guns to keep him around…. Lots of CASH…..
This is being discussed @ DU
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×2309288
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/03/politics/main...
AP) Republicans in tight re-election contests were unloading contributions they received over the years from Mark Foley, the former congressman ensnared in an e-mail sex scandal.
But the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has received $550,000 from Foley since 1996, will keep its money, committee spokesman Carl Forti said.
“We will be using the money like every other contribution — to help elect Republicans across the country,” Forti said.
In Buffalo, N.Y., the Republican chairman of the committee, Tom Reynolds, dismissed the notion that the committee give up or donate the $100,000 it received from Foley last summer. He spoke at a news conference in which he also defended himself against suggestions that he didn’t act appropriately when he learned of Foley’s contact with a Louisiana teenager.
“It’s astounding to me as a parent or a grandparent that anyone would insinuate that I would seek to cover up inappropriate conduct between an adult and a child,” Reynolds said, flanked by about 30 children and as many parents.
Among Republicans disposing of Foley money were Virginia Sen. George Allen, who plans to give the $2,000 his campaign received to a charitable cause, and Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico, who plans to give away $8,000 she received between 1998 and 2002. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., already donated $2,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., returned $1,000 she had received from Foley’s political action committee.
http://comlogic.blogspot.com/
October 4th, 2006 at 1:10 pmlooking for another source besides novak, i ran across this…
for what it’s worth:
Reynolds Press Conference
October 4th, 2006 at 5:57 pm… 2. Did Reynolds urge Foley to run? Oh, you must be referring to that Novak column. Well, incumbents do better than other candidates, and you know the first set of emails were merely “overly friendlyâ€. Nothing illegal had happened; media and the FBI had found nothing criminal in the first emails. So, the answer is “yesâ€.
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http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/archives/4023
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