Guarding Our Family Values, part n+1
Sep. 30th, 2006 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenMiami Herald, via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Rep. Mark Foley resigned from Congress on Friday, a day after publication of overly friendly e-mails sent to a former underage male page and the discovery by ABC News of a series of explicit instant messaging sessions with other boys. And as the Palm Beach Republican's personal and political life began to unravel, the resignation added to the burden of his party to maintain control of Congress in the pivotal November election.
Foley sent a terse resignation letter to Gov. Jeb Bush, and Foley's office issued a brief statement, thanking his district for 12 years of public service. Foley was chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and was active in child protection issues, including pushing for legislation to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet and further restrictions of online child pornography. In 2003, he led a charge to criticize a Tampa-area nudist camp that permitted underage campers...
malloc1024:Rep. Mark Foley resigned from Congress on Friday, a day after publication of overly friendly e-mails sent to a former underage male page and the discovery by ABC News of a series of explicit instant messaging sessions with other boys. And as the Palm Beach Republican's personal and political life began to unravel, the resignation added to the burden of his party to maintain control of Congress in the pivotal November election.
Foley sent a terse resignation letter to Gov. Jeb Bush, and Foley's office issued a brief statement, thanking his district for 12 years of public service. Foley was chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and was active in child protection issues, including pushing for legislation to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet and further restrictions of online child pornography. In 2003, he led a charge to criticize a Tampa-area nudist camp that permitted underage campers...
