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Former Democrat Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts admitted to a sexual affair with a 17 year old page boy in 1983 and defied the House's attempts to reprimand him. He then went on to serve five more terms.
I saw that online, didn't know anything about it, looked it up and apparently it was true.
Interesting, who controlled the house back then anyways?
What Hastert did do this week, according to a statement he made on Monday was to contact the Justice Department and the state of Florida to investigate possible violations of both federal and state laws on the part of Foley. And most notable, Hastert has made clear the obvious: while he apparently gave Foley a limited response to allegations in 2005 based on the limited information that was available and believed at the time, he makes it clear that someone obviously did know about the true extent of the e-mail exchanges and kept it under wraps until now. And it is of interest to find out who those people were (unless you want to make the case that it was Hastert who leaked this to ABC). If Foley's actions were indeed predatorial (as they appear to be) then whoever leaked it knowingly did more to appease Foley's behavior and possibly endanger these teenagers than anything that has come out to suggest that Hastert himself has.
Another interesting comment. Just who DID leak this story 40 days before the next election?
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