{"id":3552,"date":"2006-09-29T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T20:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2006-09-29T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T23:40:37","slug":"florida-republican-mark-foley-resigns-drops-re-election-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"FLORIDA REPUBLICAN REP. MARK FOLEY RESIGNS, DROPS RE-ELECTION BID UPON REVELATIONS OF SEXUALLY PREDATORY BEHAVIOR WITH CONGRESSIONAL PAGES, HIGH-SCHOOL BOYS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Siren.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/09\/foley_resigns_o.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/MarkFoley_BW.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) became the latest in a growing line of Republican Congressmen to suddenly resign and\/or drop their re-election bid in the face of scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Creepy e-mails had recently been released from Foley to a 16-year old boy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/Congressman_accused_of_sending_sick_emails_0928.html\">RAW STORY has the series of emails<\/a>. ABC News has the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/09\/foley_resigns_o.html\">Foley&#8217;s resignation<\/a> just moments ago.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> ABC News now has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/09\/exclusive_the_s.html\">text of sexually explicit Instant Message conversations<\/a> between Foley and a teen boy. We should have pointed out previously, in addition to being a part of the GOP leadership in Congress, Foley was also Chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children! From ABC&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">In Congress, Rep. Foley (R-FL) was part of the Republican leadership and the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children.<\/p>\n<p>He crusaded for tough laws against those who used the Internet for sexual exploitation of children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re sick people; they need mental health counseling,&#8221; Foley said.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Guess he was just doing research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) became the latest in a growing line of Republican Congressmen to suddenly resign and\/or drop their re-election bid in the face of scandal. Creepy e-mails had recently been released from Foley to a 16-year old boy. RAW STORY has the series of emails. ABC News has the story of Foley&#8217;s resignation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,16,152],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-florida","category-mark-foley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}