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Foley Cruising in His BMW; Another Dorm Visit in 2000
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A staff supervisor at the dorm for congressional pages intervened when former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) tried to pay the teens a nighttime visit in the summer of 2000, ABC News has learned.
The pages were having an informal "mixer" party in their dorm at the Tip O'Neil building behind the Capitol, according to a former page who was 17 at the time.
"It was a beautiful summer evening, and I recall Mr. Foley arriving in his blue Series 3 BMW convertible about 9:30 at night," the former page said. "Several of us saw him and went outside to chat."
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A page program supervisor came out to warn the pages "not to go far because they weren't signed out" and shooed them back inside, he recalled.
The page supervisor was one of the adult staffers who worked for the House Clerk's office, which oversees the page program. It is not known if any formal report was filed regarding Foley's surprise visit.
The former page, who spoke to ABC News on the condition he not be identified, said he then began receiving instant messages and e-mails from Foley which became sexually explicit immediately following his 18th birthday.
He said he has not retained any of the messages or e-mails.
"I would turn on my instant messenger, and he would be online at all hours of the day or night. The talk would quickly turn sexual," he said. He says Foley requested that he send photos of himself performing sexual acts.
According to Newsweek Magazine, it was the report of a similar nighttime visit by an inebriated Foley to the page dorm sometime in 2002 or 2003 that caused Foley's then Chief of Staff, Kirk Fordham, to alert Speaker Hastert's office to the congressman's inappropriate actions, a warning Hastert's office now says they never received.
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"David" must work on the Republican side of the Page House! Must be! Saying it's 'dead'. I wonder if these kids parents would consider the issue 'dead' if their kids were being stocked. Also - with everything coming out it looks like Pedophile Foley waits until the kids are 18 or better. You read through this horror and it's very obvious he attempts to avoid the 'underaged'. Think of what he would do if he wasn't in the public eye!
Posted by: Jerry | Oct 11, 2006 1:18:10 PM
I love how Republicans can't take the heat on this G.O.P. (Gay On Pages) Foley scandal. The story only broke two weekends ago, and already some of them are crying "enough already". Bill Clinton has been out of office for 6 years, and there are Right-wing vultures out there, like Ann Coulter, who still use the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal as a cash cow.
Posted by: Laura | Oct 11, 2006 1:18:31 PM
These self=righteous hypos aren't really Christians. they use this great religion to grab power and commit crimes
Posted by: aries | Oct 11, 2006 1:19:36 PM
I think it is wrong to shut down the page program just because some of our so-called representatives can't keep their hands off a computer and their sexual deviations and thoughts and conduct to themselves. There is no reason to blame the pages for Foley's or any other Congressperson/Senator's actions.
Posted by: Laurie C | Oct 11, 2006 1:23:53 PM
David it seems suffers from short attention span syndrome... something seen far too often in this country and is a result of having/wanting/getting what they want immediately rather than working for it. A sad comment on our society today. On another note, Foley is in trouble. Whether or not he is Republican or Democrat makes no difference. If he wasn't "messing around" with stuff he shouldn't have been messing around with, there would be NO news re: this issue.
Posted by: Debbie | Oct 11, 2006 1:29:16 PM
Well boys and girls we have learned today that Republicans can not be trusted with our children, by a show of hands how many of you think that they can be trusted running our goverment?
Posted by: Earl | Oct 11, 2006 1:30:11 PM
Unbelievable. This is the party of "moral values", right?
Posted by: disch | Oct 11, 2006 1:37:03 PM
This scandal has "The Revenge of William Jefferson Clinton" written all over it. Did he grease a republican palm to achieve this?
Posted by: SHEILA BOND | Oct 11, 2006 1:37:21 PM
FEDERAL law prohibits soliciting sex from minors (18 & under), so the DC age of consent is immaterial.
Posted by: exasperated | Oct 11, 2006 1:39:24 PM
Steve is overlooking something: the age of consent in the states the former pages lived when they were sent those blatantly sexual emails/IMs.
And as for his semantic hairsplitting: ephebophilia.com states "82% of all sexual abuse are cases of Ephebophilia." A rose by any other name, Steve...
Posted by: Dave | Oct 11, 2006 1:41:36 PM
When you vote in November don't forget the rallying cry: "Remember Abramoff, DeLay, Foley, Hastert and Bush"
Bob
Posted by: Bob | Oct 11, 2006 1:48:23 PM
Nay! The Party of Nixon must go!
Posted by: Cassandra | Oct 11, 2006 1:50:07 PM
I'm tracking Foleygate with great schadenfreude and unwarranted hope, given our recent history of vote fraud in national elections.
Unless I've missed something, it seems apparent is that Representative Foley had the ability to secure a lot of personal information about individual pages, such as when they turned 18, and their personal email/IM addresses. And this is before the government legalized such invasions of privacy.
Posted by: Paul | Oct 11, 2006 1:50:22 PM
Well, the ranks of GOP Congressmen are sure all on the same page.
The National Rontunda is in dire need of a major fumigation come this November.
Posted by: TMM | Oct 11, 2006 1:50:47 PM
All this talk about what's-his-name chasing after boys, and nobody's mentioned that today is the one month anniversary of the commemorations for the fifth anniversary of 9/11. I think people want to hear about that, not all this trashy reheated gossip. 9/11! Terror! Osama! Vote Republican!
Posted by: Karl R. | Oct 11, 2006 1:51:07 PM
David - Dead? I think not. It's alive and growing by the day. America loves sex scandals. It's all they listen to. They will never get enough of this. The media did two years on Monica. You actually think this is dead. You don't know your country, David.
Posted by: Barbara | Oct 11, 2006 1:52:49 PM
Just wait until we start hearing about the Marianas islands and the trips certain congressmen have taken there . They prevented legislation to protect that place from having sweatshop conditions and underage prostitution. Its likely to make foleygate look like nothing in comparison.
Posted by: Robert | Oct 11, 2006 1:56:22 PM
These are the same republicans who claim to keep us safe from terrorists. They can't even keep 16 year old children safe feom Foley.
La cauge a Foley Gate
Posted by: Virtulact1 | Oct 11, 2006 1:58:07 PM
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Brian Ross & The Investigative Team deserve Pulitzer Prizes for finally snapping America out of its neo-con coma!
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Posted by: chasemonster | Oct 11, 2006 2:03:42 PM
Wanting to date young boys is one thing but not driving an American made car is just wrong!!
Posted by: drlmel | Oct 11, 2006 2:05:13 PM
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