Rent-A-Kid on CNN yesterday
Tom Reynolds did an interview with Wolf Blitzer yesterday on CNN. Here’s what he said about Foleygate:
There wasn’t word there were inappropriate exchanges and that is exactly it. Many of the Democrats that were working in alliance with my opponent tried to combine all these instant messages and e-mails into one. There are two distinct actions I took. The first was when Rodney Alexander talked to me about overly friendly e-mails, that a page he had sponsored had received, but his parents were aware and they were professionals and they did not want the privacy of their son affected and not to do anything about it. I still took that to the speaker of the House — a constitutional officer, a second in line to the presidency, because I had access and the ability to talk to the speaker. When you look at the second incidence, that’s on Friday, September 29th, when ABC News released these despicable, deplorable e-mails that Foley admitted that he had sent. At that point, we moved forward, very quickly, to ask and get Mark Foley’s resignation from Congress and that is the difference. Once that became public, that any of us were aware, within hours, Mark Foley had resigned from Congress.
That’s a mouthful. I thought these guys didn’t do nuance.
Meanwhile, the Buffalo News has a profile of his oppponent Jack Davis. It’s a pretty thorough description of just how much of an outsider Davis is.
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