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<span style="font-style: italic">... don't they?</span> I was wondering what took him so long. Give it another 2 cycles and for sure, he'll run for president.
I think this guy is just plain gross. Bet if you scratch the surface, he's done quite a bit more with under aged boys.
It's more than "horrific judgment" as he calls it.
Dude - amongst other things, you're 2 steps short of being a pedophile - duh!!!
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Once-disgraced Mark Foley has returned</span></span>
Friday, February 4, 2011
BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON
The Record
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — When a local Young Republicans group invited former Congressman Mark Foley to speak to them, the reaction was swift and blunt even within GOP circles.
One person involved with the party took to Twitter, asking: "Have you people lost your minds?" Another joked: "Aren't YRs a lil' old for him?"
<span style="color: #FF0000">This was the same guy who resigned just before the 2006 election over salacious e-mails to former male congressional pages.</span>
For Foley, though, it offered an opportunity to get back in front of a GOP audience for the first time since he went into hiding.
His speech got applause, not jeers. And now he's the host of a political talk show on a local radio station.
"He was amazing. <span style="color: #FF0000">Charismatic.</span> He has a great message and touched on so many different things and seamlessly did it," said Jackie Fay, the group's president who asked him to speak. "He's enthralling to listen to."
After a self-imposed seclusion, Foley is back in the public eye and earning respect in the community he represented in Congress for almost 12 years. He has a radio show on politics. Many in the community encouraged him to run for mayor in West Palm Beach, though he ruled it out. He returned to public speaking, addressing a Jewish veterans group two days before the Young Republicans.
"It's a happy ending," he said. "It is gratifying. Believe me."
Not that everyone has forgiven him. When the idea of Foley running for mayor hit the news, the comments on blogs and news websites were brutal.
And when Fay used Twitter to announce Foley was going to speak to her group, which is open to Republicans ages 18 to 40, the critics spoke up.
"Have you people lost your minds?" asked Brandi Brown, a Tallahassee events planner who has worked for Republican politicians.
Fay said she never reconsidered the invitation and dismissed the barbs.
"It seemed petty and high schoolish. It was like, 'Oh! How could you do that?' Well, he's a registered Republican last time I checked. He served in office and he did a lot of good. And he's got years of experience to draw from," she said.
Foley readily admits his contact with former pages was wrong.
<span style="color: #FF0000">"It was horrific judgment,"</span> Foley said. "I'm going to punish myself for the rest of my life. People don't have to help."
While he was in rehab at an Arizona facility after he resigned, Foley said he was asked where he was going to live. People assumed that if he knew what was being written about him, he wouldn't go home to South Florida.
Foley jokes that as a congressman he would have attended the opening of an envelope. He was always accessible to the media and his constituents, often answering his Washington office phone himself.
That changed when he got home. He stayed in the house. He stopped returning reporters' phone calls. Also gone were his days socializing in Palm Beach restaurants. He began driving greater distances to shop at grocery stores where people were less likely to know him.
Foley's venture back into public began when a friend insisted they go out to dinner. He quietly went to his table instead of working the room like he used to. Then people approached him and wished him well.
"What I found in this reawakening or reemergence, it's been a loving public. Remarkably so," Foley said.
I think this guy is just plain gross. Bet if you scratch the surface, he's done quite a bit more with under aged boys.
It's more than "horrific judgment" as he calls it.
Dude - amongst other things, you're 2 steps short of being a pedophile - duh!!!
______
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 17pt">
Once-disgraced Mark Foley has returned</span></span>
Friday, February 4, 2011
BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON
The Record
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — When a local Young Republicans group invited former Congressman Mark Foley to speak to them, the reaction was swift and blunt even within GOP circles.
One person involved with the party took to Twitter, asking: "Have you people lost your minds?" Another joked: "Aren't YRs a lil' old for him?"
<span style="color: #FF0000">This was the same guy who resigned just before the 2006 election over salacious e-mails to former male congressional pages.</span>
For Foley, though, it offered an opportunity to get back in front of a GOP audience for the first time since he went into hiding.
His speech got applause, not jeers. And now he's the host of a political talk show on a local radio station.
"He was amazing. <span style="color: #FF0000">Charismatic.</span> He has a great message and touched on so many different things and seamlessly did it," said Jackie Fay, the group's president who asked him to speak. "He's enthralling to listen to."
After a self-imposed seclusion, Foley is back in the public eye and earning respect in the community he represented in Congress for almost 12 years. He has a radio show on politics. Many in the community encouraged him to run for mayor in West Palm Beach, though he ruled it out. He returned to public speaking, addressing a Jewish veterans group two days before the Young Republicans.
"It's a happy ending," he said. "It is gratifying. Believe me."
Not that everyone has forgiven him. When the idea of Foley running for mayor hit the news, the comments on blogs and news websites were brutal.
And when Fay used Twitter to announce Foley was going to speak to her group, which is open to Republicans ages 18 to 40, the critics spoke up.
"Have you people lost your minds?" asked Brandi Brown, a Tallahassee events planner who has worked for Republican politicians.
Fay said she never reconsidered the invitation and dismissed the barbs.
"It seemed petty and high schoolish. It was like, 'Oh! How could you do that?' Well, he's a registered Republican last time I checked. He served in office and he did a lot of good. And he's got years of experience to draw from," she said.
Foley readily admits his contact with former pages was wrong.
<span style="color: #FF0000">"It was horrific judgment,"</span> Foley said. "I'm going to punish myself for the rest of my life. People don't have to help."
While he was in rehab at an Arizona facility after he resigned, Foley said he was asked where he was going to live. People assumed that if he knew what was being written about him, he wouldn't go home to South Florida.
Foley jokes that as a congressman he would have attended the opening of an envelope. He was always accessible to the media and his constituents, often answering his Washington office phone himself.
That changed when he got home. He stayed in the house. He stopped returning reporters' phone calls. Also gone were his days socializing in Palm Beach restaurants. He began driving greater distances to shop at grocery stores where people were less likely to know him.
Foley's venture back into public began when a friend insisted they go out to dinner. He quietly went to his table instead of working the room like he used to. Then people approached him and wished him well.
"What I found in this reawakening or reemergence, it's been a loving public. Remarkably so," Foley said.
most a dem half senile dem will
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