For a fifty-year old congressman having an explicitly sexual conversation with a kid who works for him, even after he claims to be underage), while perhaps not a shocking sex crime....certainly creepy and incredibly inappropriate for a congressman....
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Henwood</b> <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
["shocking sex crimes"? please!]<br><br>From: "DNC Press" <<a href="mailto:dncpress@dnc.org">dncpress@dnc.org</a>><br>Date: September 30, 2006 1:25:57 PM EDT<br>Subject: WHY DID TOM REYNOLDS COVER UP CONGRESSMAN'S SEX CRIMES?
<br><br>For Immediate Release<br>September 30, 2006<br><br>Contact: Damien LaVera – 202-863-8148<br><br><br>Why Did Tom Reynolds Cover Up Congressman's Sex Crimes?<br><br>Washington, DC – Yesterday, Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley
<br>resigned from Congress when sexually inappropriate emails and instant<br>messages he sent to a teenage boy came to light. While the shocking<br>exchanges produced an immediate uproar that cost Congressman Foley<br>his job, at least one member of the House Republican leadership had
<br>known about the situation for months and did nothing about it: New<br>York Republican Congressman and chair of the National Republican<br>Congressional Committee Tom Reynolds.<br><br>According to the Associated Press, Congressman Reynolds' spokesman
<br>confirmed that Reynolds had been informed by another Congressman that<br>the boy had complained about Foley's inappropriate communications<br>"months ago." According to the report, the allegations first came to
<br>light in late 2005. [AP, 9/30/06] It appears that Reynolds did not<br>tell authorities about the emails or take any step to discipline<br>Foley, apparently choosing instead to sweep the matter under the rug<br>to protect the Republican party's dwindling chances of retaining
<br>control of the House of Representatives this November.<br><br>"Congressman Reynolds' inaction in the face of such a serious<br>situation is very troubling, and raises important questions about<br>whether there was an attempt to cover up criminal activity involving
<br>a minor to keep it from coming to light before Election Day," said<br>Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney.<br><br>"We need real answers to important questions about precisely who knew
<br>about these activities and when they knew it, whether other current<br>or former pages were victimized by Congressman Foley, why the<br>Republican House leadership was prepared to adjourn without at the<br>very least referring this matter to the ethics committee, and what
<br>corrective action if any Congressman Reynolds and the rest of the<br>Republican House leadership took. Failing to answer to these<br>questions would send a terrible message to the parents who entrust<br>their children to the care of the Page School and send them to
<br>Washington to serve Congress."<br><br>###<br><br>Paid for and authorized by the Democratic National Committee,<br><a href="http://www.democrats.org">www.democrats.org</a>. This communication is not authorized by any
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