Thursday, October 05, 2006
Liar, Liar, Big and Tall Man Pants On Fire
From the Washington Post:
Will Hastert resign today? It's only a matter of time before the Republican-led firing squad comes his way.
In the over/under on the Hastert watch, I took the under. I thought he would be gone before 5 PM Friday.
I'm going to stick with that choice.
A longtime chief of staff to disgraced former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) approached House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's office three years ago, repeatedly imploring senior Republicans to help stop Foley's advances toward teenage male pages, the staff member said yesterday.
The account by Kirk Fordham, who resigned yesterday from his job with another senior lawmaker, pushed back to 2003 or earlier the time when Hastert's staff reportedly became aware of Foley's questionable behavior concerning teenagers working on Capitol Hill.
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Fordham is the fourth person to indicate that Hastert (Ill.) or his staff was warned about Foley's questionable behavior months or years before the six-term lawmaker abruptly resigned Friday, after ABC News published lewd instant messages that the lawmaker had sent to former pages.
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Fordham says his warnings to Hastert's office dealt with...reports of Foley's troubling interest in male pages working in the Capitol Hill complex. He says he implored the highest ranks of the GOP leadership to intervene to thwart behavior that he had been unable to stop after multiple confrontations with his boss. Sources close to the matter say a meeting took place between a senior Hastert aide and Foley before Fordham's January 2004 departure, probably in 2003, in a small conference room on the third floor of the Capitol.
Will Hastert resign today? It's only a matter of time before the Republican-led firing squad comes his way.
In the over/under on the Hastert watch, I took the under. I thought he would be gone before 5 PM Friday.
I'm going to stick with that choice.
