Comments on: What’s $100K Between Republicans? Just Ask Tom Reynolds…

By: mrobinsong

mrobinsong — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:12:22 +0000

Howard Dean was right - challenge everywhere.

WHICH REPUBLICANS PROTECTED A CHILD PREDATOR?

1. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La, NO Democratic challenger.

2. John Shimkus, R- Illinois’s 19th, oversight for the House Page Program has a challenger ,
*Dan Stover
http://www.stoverforcongress.us/

3. Majority LeaderJohn Boehner (R-Ohio, 8th) challenger:
*Morton Meier
http://www.victimsofjohnboehner.org/

4. Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) challenger:
* John Leasch
http://www.john06.com/home

5. National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds (N.Y. 26th) challenger:
*Jack Davis
http://www.jackdavis.org/new/

By: Shrink in SF

Shrink in SF — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:52:57 +0000

Has this been quoted enough? From 17th century earl John Wilmot

Then give me health, wealth, mirth, and wine
And if busie Love intrenches,
There’s a sweet soft page, of mine,
Does the trick worth forty wenches.

By: jsquared

jsquared — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:14:05 +0000

Kelven @ 93

I’m definatly of the mind that this mess pulled the rug out from under the October surprise planned by Rove. The GOP has been grooming their base as homophobic prudes for a couple of decades now and it has finally come back to bite them in the rear big time.

Thank you ABC, thank you! They may not have fully made up for Path to 9/11, but they are on the way to redeeming themselves. (You also have to wonder if they didn’t choose to launch this so aggressively due to their being on the defensive with Democrats.)

You’ve just got to love their being “hoisted by their own petard.” One of the scripts on their recent push-polling has been about “Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco liberals taking over Congress.” They have fueled the fire on this homophobia and will now pay the price with the “blowback” on Foley.Prof @ 120

GOP Staff Warned Pages About Foley in 2001

That’s ABC News, which has done the best investigative reporting on this.

Oct. 1, 2006 — A Republican staff member warned Congressional pages five years ago to “watch out” for Congressman Mark Foley, according to a former page.

By: jsquared

jsquared — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:02:27 +0000

Kelven @ 93

I’m definatly of the mind that this mess pulled the rug out from under the October surprise planned by Rove. The GOP has been grooming their base as homophobic prudes for a couple of decades now and it has finally come back to bite them in the rear big time.

By: Dom Telay

Dom Telay — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:00:36 +0000

We now know the going rate for hush money for Reynolds if you’re a well-connected Republican friend with some unsavory habits. But what if you’re not so well-connected? What’s the rate then? Is there a menu somewhere on his website that lists rates for particular sins?

Just askin’

By: DennisofVenice

DennisofVenice — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:57:40 +0000

I think Aravosis has something up about this, and it may or may not be of any significance, but there is another Foley/Reynolds connection, and that is former Foley chief-of-staff/campaign manager Kirk Fordham, who just happened to have gone to work for Reynolds as his chief-of-staff around the time Alexander notified Reynolds of the emails to the page from Louisiana. Wonder what Fordham knows. Also as an aside, the Washington Blade reports that Fordham is gay.

By: Prof

Prof — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:38:51 +0000

GOP Staff Warned Pages About Foley in 2001

That’s ABC News, which has done the best investigative reporting on this.

Oct. 1, 2006 — A Republican staff member warned Congressional pages five years ago to “watch out” for Congressman Mark Foley, according to a former page.

By: ccmask

ccmask — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:24:31 +0000

Please notice the date of this story:

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 6:30 pm
Foley gets challenger

http://www.heraldtribune.com/a.....mp;start=1

Mahoney filed his candidacy papers with the Federal Elections Commission about 8 weeks ago. His first campaign fund raising disclosure report comes out in January.

One year ago, Tim Mahoney changes parties from Republican to Democrat. What in the world made him change parties? Did he think it would be easy to beat Foley? Are they blaming Mahoney with the leak to give him a good cover posing as a Dem, or is Mahoney really a Dem?
The article says he lives in Highlands County but records indicate he lives in a golf community in Palm Beach? I know he has a lot of acreage in Venice, right by the Sugar Cane Fields.

Making me nuts.

By: yabadabado

yabadabado — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:23:56 +0000

Ironic that ‘America’s Most Wanted’ may have to hunt down Foley.

By: obsessed

obsessed — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:11:39 +0000

There’s all those ‘newscasters’ or ‘news anchors’, what ever you call them, like Nancy Grace and the talking heads of Court TV, many newspapers, tv stations, radio talk shows that we should writing/calling this week asking for coverage of this scandal. Grace and her ilk are always hot to discuss the latest missing white woman, celebrity scandals up to and including murder. Several of these people got their big break covering OJ, or Jon Benet or Monica, surely this kind of scandal, powerful men covering up the actions of a child stalker member of their party, merely to avoid scandal and try to hold onto their power in the House should be perfect topics that could remain ‘hot’ for weeks on the talk circuits.

my thoughts exactly. Here’s old Greta’s email:

For Nancy Grace you have to go through a web interface:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5c.html?24