# Another seat for the Democrats... (Rep. Mark Foley) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656 "2006-09-29T20:39:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![litespeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@litespeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litespeed)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/1 "2006-09-29T20:39:06Z")
another Republican resigns in shame… [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/29/national/w123452D40.DTL&type=politics](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/29/national/w123452D40.DTL&type=politics) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/2 "2006-09-29T20:49:20Z")
Well, at least he had the decency to immediately resign, [unlike others.](http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/jefferson.bribery/) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/3 "2006-09-29T21:03:23Z")
> **[CNN.com - Congressman quits after messages to teens found - Sep 29, 2006](https://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/29/congressman.e.mails/index.html)** > > Republican Rep. Mark Foley resigned Friday from the House after sexually explicit instant message conversations with teenage congressional pages attributed to him surfaced. Evidently a Florida congressman got a little crazy when he sent emails to a 16-year old page. I don’t know about you, but I could sure use some details. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/4 "2006-09-29T21:04:55Z")
He said he’d turn over a new leaf, just as soon as he’d gotten to the bottom of that Page… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/5 "2006-09-29T21:08:04Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] He said he’d turn over a new leaf, just as soon as he’d gotten to the bottom of that Page… [/QUOTE] I almost posted that, but decided not too. It was just sodomeasy… ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/6 "2006-09-29T21:43:58Z")
Here you go: NY Times story Reg. required. Apparently Foley asked the page for a picture, which skeeved the kid out. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/7 "2006-09-29T21:57:17Z")
[QUOTE=Carl Corey] Here you go: NY Times story Reg. required. Apparently Foley asked the page for a picture, which skeeved the kid out. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the link (I didn’t have to register! WooHOO!). While it sounds like he was maybe grooming him for a future “heavier hit”, it doesn’t sound like he’s a monster or anything. I was expecting more blood and guts. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/8 "2006-09-29T22:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > i am just finished riding my bike on a 25 mile journey now heading to the gym… whats school like for you this year?" Followed by > [@](#): > > So, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/9 "2006-09-29T22:05:52Z")
I read the emails and they really aren’t that bad. I was more appalled at the atrocious spelling than anything. The emails clearly do not tell the whole story. He resigned for a reason…I’m guessing he has kiddie porn on his computer or is secretly having a sexual affair with another man or something of that nature that he is afraid of being exposed because of these emails. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/10 "2006-09-29T22:09:27Z")
> [@](#): > > ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former teenage male pages. In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page: **“Do I make you a little horny?”** > > Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect. I know it’s sick, but that made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/11 "2006-09-29T22:13:52Z")
The article I read on this was on Yahoo: [Foley Resigns](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_go_co/congressman_e_mails) This article also discusses info from ABC News regarding Foley apparently getting into sexually-oriented instant message conversations with current and former teenage male pages. Sez ABC News: "In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page: ‘Do I make you a little horny?’ " ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/12 "2006-09-29T22:25:47Z")
[QUOTE=Mighty\_Girl] I know it’s sick, but that made me laugh. [/QUOTE] Well, so much for giving him the benefit of the doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/13 "2006-09-29T22:33:45Z")
[QUOTE=Absolute] Well, so much for giving him the benefit of the doubt. [/QUOTE] Well, it sounded like something a comedian would think of. I don’t know if it’s true he said it, but you have to admit it is funny. ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/14 "2006-09-29T22:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=Absolute] Well, so much for giving him the benefit of the doubt. [/QUOTE] Hey, the guy resigned and made a sincere apology (without saying exactly what he was apologizing for,) hours after the story broke. I was for giving him the benefit of the doubt before that, but those aren’t the actions of someone who was just being friendly. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/15 "2006-09-29T22:39:11Z")
Well, apparently I was reading the wrong emails. Ew. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/16 "2006-09-29T22:50:43Z")
He also stated he would resign because there were other potentially damaging emails and IM’s out there. ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/17 "2006-09-29T23:01:07Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] I almost posted that, but decided not too. It was just sodomeasy… [/QUOTE] Aaaand the only thing I can think if noe is a use for the word “sodomeasy”. I hvae no idea what it means, but people are going to thnk it means an awfull lot of things. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/18 "2006-09-29T23:39:57Z")
[QUOTE=Septima] Aaaand the only thing I can think if noe is a use for the word “sodomeasy”. I hvae no idea what it means, but people are going to thnk it means an awfull lot of things. 😃 [/QUOTE] Pun on so damn easy… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/19 "2006-09-30T00:25:07Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] I almost posted that, but decided not too. It was just sodomeasy… [/QUOTE] **Sodomeasy** Hussein’s AOL name. not that I would know. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656/20 "2006-09-30T01:03:16Z")
Okay, I merged the two threads about this subject (the ones with responses; the others, I just closed and sent readers this way) and edited the title to include Foley’s name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-seat-for-the-democrats-rep-mark-foley/374656.md?page=2)