Reynolds chief of staff “resigns.”
By on Oct 4th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Reynolds chief of staff “resigns.”
ABC News reports that Kirk Fordham, the former chief of staff to Mark Foley and current chief of staff to Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY), has “resigned amid questions over whether he supressed information about Foley emails.”
UPDATE: ABC now says Fordham was “fired.” Also: “People familiar with Fordham’s side of the story…said Fordham was being used as a scapegoat by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. They said Fordham had repeatedly warned Hastert’s staff about Foley’s ‘problem’ with pages, but little was done.”
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one down, about 11 more of these losers to go…
it’s a start
October 4th, 2006 at 1:49 pmjohn at americablog just published excerpts from an email he received from richard viguerie calling for the house leadership to resign… it won’t be long now…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
October 4th, 2006 at 1:54 pmDamage control time……offer up the little fish in hopes that it will stop people from asking for the big fish to resign. Hope it doesn’t work!!!
October 4th, 2006 at 1:56 pmThe domino effect – the good kind.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:57 pmWhile the past week may not have been kind to the Republican Party, the events of the last several days need not spell doom for the GOP.
Here some ads for the GOP we’d like to see…
October 4th, 2006 at 1:57 pmWhy is resigned in quotations? Did he, or was he fired? Resigning sounds more like a sacrificial lamb while being fired implies culpability.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:00 pmThis issue is criminal!!!
I could give a flip about who resigns, I want them in jail, so they can never allow another child to come to harm!!
Every one of these congressional pedophile ring enablers and coverups need to go to jail to protect the children of America.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:03 pmOffering up “little fish” is a cute gesture, so to speak, but for the outraged parents across the country… it is ONLY a start! I, for one, have no intention of being placated by scapegoat sacrifices of the little fishies… I want the whole damn school of fish – of ANY and ALL sizes – to experience the proverbial toilet bowl “burial at sea” … I think for them to end up with the rest of the sewage is fitting…
October 4th, 2006 at 2:07 pm[...] UPDATE 4: Rep. Tom Reynolds’s chief of staff Kirk Fordham has resigned. [...]
October 4th, 2006 at 2:08 pmThree month jump in the job search.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:14 pmCan’t you libero-fascists just leave it – oh – wait, I got nothin’…
October 4th, 2006 at 2:18 pm“People familiar with Fordham’s side of the story…said Fordham was being used as a scapegoat by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert” – - Get a comfy chair and popcorn, kids……
October 4th, 2006 at 2:21 pm“HANG ON”!!!!!!!! the republi-can’ts are starting to jump ship.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:30 pmif fordham can talk about a certain $100,000 donation from foley to reynolds in july (among many other things), would reynolds maybe not want to piss him off by firing him?
October 4th, 2006 at 2:30 pmThe GOP’s culture of corruption just gets more and more nauseating by the day.
Had enough?
October 4th, 2006 at 2:31 pmThe end is close when you have to eat your own children to survive…
October 4th, 2006 at 2:35 pmFoley’s Folly
October 3, 2006
The article “Foley scandal could cost GOP the House†in the Press Democrat newspaper reveals the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party. In the past few days Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual misconduct with a House page seem to have embroiled the top leadership of the Republican controlled House. Foley is out of the picture since he resigned but the GOP House leader, Dennis Hastert, as well as others is making excuses for Foley transgression: he was molested as a child. Since when Republicans start defending child molesters? When Ronald Reagan was president, Attorney General Edwin Meese attacked sexual improprieties, like pornography and sexual predators. And now they’re circling the wagons? You bet. The leadership was aware of Foley’s email contact with the pages for some years. Even President Bush publicly supports Hastert while spouting that Democrats can’t be trusted. Say what? Again, the specter of the November elections loom closer as the media firestorm rages on. Hastert’s reasoning for not resigning is that he’s calling for accountability, trying to quietly resolve the incident. If Hastert is demanding accountability then he should resign; had he taken action against Foley several years back the entire incident would not have occur.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:37 pmRight now Rove is hard at work figuring out how Clinton caused all this…
October 4th, 2006 at 2:42 pmTalk about an October surprise. Well Karl Rove, lets see you spin your party’s way out of this mess. Well while American voters are disgusted with what Foley did, but I believe there are plenty of more skeletons in Repulicans closet. Time to clean em out
October 4th, 2006 at 2:44 pmTalk about an October surprise. Well Karl Rove, lets see you spin your party’s way out of this mess. Well while American voters are disgusted with what Foley did, but I believe there are plenty of more skeletons in Repulicans closet. Time to clean em out
October 4th, 2006 at 2:45 pmSo the Republicans have a sexual predator write child protection laws, energy companies write are energy policy and war mongers dictate our foreign policy and bush has the audacity to say that Dems shouldn’t be trusted to run Congress. The depth of his idiocy astounds me.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:53 pmdlet 21
October 4th, 2006 at 2:58 pmNice summary of the BushCo exploitation.
Resign/fired, whichever….although now it’s “fired” (that could change again, that part of the story, of course, as it all seems totally “fluild” these days, news, that is, instead of factual), but…..
they are going to look for their one, maybe two or three “sacrificial lambs” …their “scape goats,” …..whom they will blame ALL of it on, and then expect it to just go away, as they always do, with their sound bites and accusations of being “unpatriotic” if we bring certain things up.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:59 pmI wonder why Foley would not reveal the clergy who abuse him as a child.
Is it not necessary to expose the clergy that abused him as child so other children can be saved from that pastor or priest?
For Foley to protect the name of clergy rather than the children who might be exploited by him is a crime!
October 4th, 2006 at 3:01 pmAw. Now that is just sad.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:04 pmGet a comfy chair and popcorn, kids……
Comment by Badmoodman — October 4, 2006 @ 2:21 pm
LOL! Yes, it is going to be great fun watching the Republicans self-immolate in the week right before the election.
This is just like Al Capone. All the murders and stuff that he did, why did he go to jail? Tax evasion.
With the GOP congress, they ripped off the elderly, won’t investigate the illegal actions of the Bush crime family, legalized torture, Terri Schiavo. All this but what brings them to their knees? Some GOP scumbag asking pages to measure how big their peckers are.
I’m not saying that the GOP and Al Capone are the same thing … :-)
October 4th, 2006 at 3:05 pmthrow hastert under the bus, gus
October 4th, 2006 at 3:06 pmthrow hastert under the bus
don’t let him go running amok, gus
throw hastert under the bus
This is my best week since my honeymoon! But hunker down, folks. The mudslide to come will make Katrina seem as small as FEMA treated it.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:12 pmWE WILL NEED POLLWACTHERS TO WIN. Hate to say it, but REPUB’S CHEAT!
So Fordham was thrown from the train.
I guess they are hoping to limit to fallout to one fall guy.
Put them all under oath and ask them what they knew and when they knew it. Just like any standard investigation would do. And have them bring all correspondence on the subject (let them redact portions not related to the Foley matter).
If they do that then others will be thrown from the train.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:39 pmWhich would you rather read about in tomorrow’s paper?
“Condi denies emergency pre 9/11 meeting with Tenant”
“Condi didn’t remember emergency pre 9/11 meeting with Tenant”
“Condi says information wasn’t significant”
“Condi says the old 10 on a scale of 10 changed after 9/11″
“Condi thinks the old 10 is now about a -57 on post 9/11 scale”
“Condi would have moved heaven and earth to prevent 9/11″
“Condi now remembers meeting”
MAF54: oooooooh
October 4th, 2006 at 3:41 pmI’m finally broken. I’ve been trying to defend the actions of the GOP to myself for years. I’ve voted mainly Republican since I was old enough to vote (although I couldn’t quite bring myself to vote for Bush in 04.)
I’ve mainly held out for the GOP for their position on “family issues”. But this scandal (and the decade-long coverup) has broken me. I can’t in honesty defend my position anymore.
I’m a Republican at heart, but my party has abandoned the ideals for which they claim to stand. I’m throwing in my lot with the Democrats this election. Maybe by ‘08 the Republicans will get the message.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:48 pmI have waited for this to happen for about 16-years when neoliberalism (really conservatism) ruled. Then, in 1994, we had a GOP-controlled Congress. It may sound partisan, but it isn’t: if any Democrats are guilty, I want them caught-up in this political chain-reaction too. My politics are Socialist.
PS: I’m also a victim of child-molestation, check my blog for more.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:48 pm‘Little fish’ aren’t going to work, don’t worry people. This has been a long-time-coming. We might get a better society from this, it’s unprecedented in its scope.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:50 pmI know this is a very politicized series of events, but it’s sad that fringe members of both Republican AND Democratic persuasion would 1) try to justify Foley’s behavior by comparing it to that of members of the other party (Clinton, Frank, Studds, et al), or 2) use it (as teh Dems are) as a truncheon to hammer the Bush administration. I hate Bush vehemently, but this is about abuse of power–something of which both parties are guilty. If we lose track of the fact that this is just another example of the powerful preying on the weak–we’re missing the whole point.
It’s about power, and who wields it: The people or the politicians? Corporations prey on our children 24/7, but we never notice. Our children are sold bad food, bad music, and bad behavior. They’re sold control by schools, churches, government, and peer pressure. “If the president does it–it’s not illegal.” The best thing that can come of this is that children learn to be skeptical of adults. Don’t trust them. Your teacher may try to seduce you, your clergyman, your congressman, hell–maybe even Uncle Ed (or Aunt Bernice). Whatever happened to discipline and self-control? This would all be so sick if it weren’t so sad.
October 4th, 2006 at 4:13 pmAnother Republican just changed her party,after 47 years.Shame,Shame
October 4th, 2006 at 4:14 pmAnd now it starts:
October 4th, 2006 at 4:17 pmSsacrifice the lowest scum on the totem pole.
See what happens.
Rinse.
Repeat.
…and all the while your Constitutional freedoms are being whittled away in the name of a “War on Terror”, which is essentially about as effective as a “War on Fashion:, or a “War on Saying Like all the Time”, like, ya know?
October 4th, 2006 at 4:29 pm- How long before neighbors turn against neighbor. Let the witchhunt begin.
Comment by DallasNE — October 4, 2006 @ 3:39 pm
Standard investigation? Didn’t the Republicans just approve some wonderful new interrogation techniques? Techniques invaluable for rooting out terrorists should prove just as effective in rooting out pedophiles and their co-conspirators. I say let each be interrogated according to his/her vote on Bush’s Torture Bill. Those who approved Bush’s interrogation techniques should be interrogated accordingly. Those who voted against his bill will be subjected to the standard investigation.
Oh, and any information gleaned from the more coercive techniques will be admissible in their trial.
October 4th, 2006 at 4:35 pmjjones,
I welcome you on your new path.
If “family values” was merely a sham and ploy to rise to power, what does that say about the rest of their actions? I encourage you to re-think everything you have held as truth about what the Republican Party has become. Peace and Blessings be with you…it’s going to be a bit of a bumpy ride for awhile.
October 4th, 2006 at 4:44 pmjjones, I know it can’t be easy. I have a lot of faith in the left (which doesn’t include Hilary, Schumer, Leiberman, et al.). It would be hard to turn against them though if the left had shoveled the crap that the right has for the last few years I am sure I could not back them.
October 4th, 2006 at 9:54 pmIf anyone has questions about Dennis Hastert’s character, let me refer them to whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds. Check out her website at Just a Citizen. He took tens of thousands of dollars from the Turkish government to vote their way concerning the genocide they committed on Armenia. Then he took money from Abramoff , the man is pond scum.
October 4th, 2006 at 10:24 pm#40 Sibel is the ooman. She is a true hero.
October 4th, 2006 at 10:25 pmThe news is now reporting that in addition to numerour Republicans sititng on this for years there are some Demorcrats that sat on this until election time to gain the most mileage at the polls. I sickens me the there were both Republicans AND Democrats trying to sweep this under the carpet or hold it as an ace card to gain advantage in the upcoming election thereby allowing and enabling more pages to be sexually harassed and/or molested.
The Republicans and the Democratrs are the same they are two different strands of the same virus that is plauging our country. They are all corupt most of them are criminals that have skated the law due to their positions of power. The FBI was notified of Foley a long time ago and claims not to ever have had any idea this was going on and claimed they had no way of figuring out the identity of the screenname in the posts. Give me a break with all the Patriot Act provision they can find out any thing they want about anyone they want online within 24 hours. Do tyou think AOL, MSN, Yahoo or the administrator of this domain will hide anyone identity from the FBI especially a suspected child molester YEAH RIGHT! I am sure they will know who I am and initiate surveillance on me just for criticizing them and the powers that are in place now.
MARK MY WORDS… under the current 2 party system – no President, Senator or Congressman will EVER be arrested, be convicted or go to jail for ANYTHING. Outside and battling for seats and control both sides have nothing to gain from jeaopardizing their immunity from EVER facing criminal charges for ANYTHING!
These blame games have gone on long enough. Do our county a favor…vote for anyone except a Democrat or Republican in the next election. Vote for a Green, Independent, Libertarian. At this point I would take Communists, Nazis, Black Panthers, Aryian Nation, anyone are better than these corrup lying scumbags that have infested Washington D.C.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:19 amFBI knew about Foley in July 3 months ago…
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October 5th, 2006 at 12:25 amFBI knew about Foley in July 3+ months ago…
October 5th, 2006 at 12:26 am