Reynolds Press Conference
… 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 friendly”. Nothing illegal had happened; media and the FBI had found nothing criminal in the first emails. So, the answer is “yes”.
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http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/archives/4023
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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/

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.

bwahahaaaa

http://comlogic.blogspot.com/

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.

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?

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….