Transcript of IMs Mark Foley sent to the 16-year-old page

[wordsmythe]

ABC News: READER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED: Foley's Exchange With Underage Page

READER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED: Foley's Exchange With Underage Page
BRIAN ROSS AND THE INVESTIGATIVE TEAM
September 29, 2006 — - The following is an instant message exchange a former page says he had with Rep. Foley in 2003. Warning: sexually explicit language, reader discretion is advised.


Maf54 (7:25:14 PM): hey



Auto response from Xxxxxxxxx (7:25:14 PM): scrounging for food...brb



Maf54 (7:25:25 PM): ok



Maf54 (7:25:35 PM): kep scrounging



Xxxxxxxxx (7:31:51 PM): boo



Maf54 (7:32:13 PM): bo dude



Xxxxxxxxx (7:32:17 PM): lol



Xxxxxxxxx (7:32:26 PM): whered ya go this afternoon



Maf54 (7:33:39 PM): i am in pensecola...had to catch a plane


Xxxxxxxxx (7:33:47 PM): oh well thats fun


Maf54 (7:34:04 PM): indeed


Xxxxxxxxx (7:34:14 PM): what are you doing in pensecola


Maf54 (7:34:21 PM): now in my hotel room


Xxxxxxxxx (7:34:39 PM): well ..like why did you go there


Maf54 (7:35:02 PM): for the campaign


Xxxxxxxxx (7:35:29 PM): have you officialy announced yt


Maf54 (7:35:45 PM): not yet


Xxxxxxxxx (7:36:06 PM): cool cool...


Maf54 (7:37:27 PM): how my favorite young stud doing


Xxxxxxxxx (7:37:46 PM): tired and sore

It goes downhill from there on the transcript.

[Army_of_One]

This man has a problem and is sick and it's unfortunate that you want to POLITICIZE his sickness. Typical democrat. Remember when Kennedy (pick one) was driving drunk/high/full of drugs or whatever and hit the wall at the White House....he turned himself in for help and it was not politicized. This shouldn't be either. Repub or Dem...the guy has a problem and should be jailed, helped, something.......but it's not about politics as much as you would like to make it that way Wordy.

[wordsmythe]

hmmm

I must have missed the part where I mentioned anything about this being a political issue.

I didn't mention his party or his office.

Actually to me this is a role model issue and the people we put up to our kids as such.

You've got football players who are nothing but over paid babies pretending to commit suicide and other sports figures who I wouldn't want my kid anywhere near being held up as role models. And now this.

But YOU can make it a political issue.

I seem to remember all you good republicans jumping on the bandwagon with the latest Kennedy scandal and politicizing it. Hell he was just drinking and driving.

This REPUBLICAN is trying to F**K little boys.

Go ahead... defend that.

This man is a perv who has opened his life up to public scrutiny by asking to be elected to serve which is a huge difference from the paid babies I spoke of earlier.

After all the Republicans have taught us that any private matter in a politician's life is fair game.

[Army_of_One]

You didn't say anything about him being a Republican but why did you post it first thing in the morning...That had something to do with it. Did you post anything when Barney Frank got caught with a male prostitute? I doubt it. The guy hasn't even been charged with anything yet...We don't even know if he has committed a crime and he's done the decent thing and resigned...unlike Kennedy (the murderer) and Big Barney...lol

[Outofdodge]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

You didn't say anything about him being a Republican but why did you post it first thing in the morning...That had something to do with it. Did you post anything when Barney Frank got caught with a male prostitute? I doubt it. The guy hasn't even been charged with anything yet...We don't even know if he has committed a crime and he's done the decent thing and resigned...unlike Kennedy (the murderer) and Big Barney...lol

Let's see.......

the openly gay barney got caught with an adult male prostitute, hm.... while a *protector* of kids gets apparently caught talking dirty with teenagers, hm..... yup must have looked the same to the house republican leadership who apparently knew about this for a period of time. Decent thing and resigned, come on....if he had twelve months ago maybe.

The Kennedy issue also involved an adult. And it happened almost 40 years ago and I would think you would be grateful the young lady gave her life since it probably kept him from ever becoming president. You want to play the "he's dirty so I can be dirty too" game then lets talk about a president and a defense secretary who send under protected young adults to their death in a foreign country, the same defense secretary who twenty years earlier helped send US weapons to the now disposed dictator of the country he helped invade?

Kind of hard to post about Barney or Teddy given that Dodgeboard in particular and the internet in general were not available to the common man at that time. Somehow I have the feeling that if it was barney talking about hard on's with pages, you would have been all over it.

[TexKan]

Aww jesus christ!! It's the first thing in the morning and ya'll already squabblin!!

Its all nonsense. We crucified Bill and god knows whoelse........ it doesn't change the fact that the guy is sick and if he gets cruicified.......... he did it to himself. No one should hide behind thier party......... his career is ruined - even if it's not true........ I think often that is the difference...... the ones that know they are screwed and the ones that just whine till it goes away........ I feel bad for everyone involved. I'm sure he has kids - just adamn shame.

Just more pimpin of the slut hoein that goes on everyday in DC. Ya think the Xxxxx - feller was baitin??? I hope he was tired and sore from playin soccer with his peers.......... not what it sounds like. Hell this sounds like a paige that planned on pimpin himself to the top anyhow............ just an observation......

[Army_of_One]

I'm not defending the guys. I think if found guilty of whatever crime he might be charged with he gets the full penalty...the max. I just don't think it's a political matter.

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

I'm not defending the guys. I think if found guilty of whatever crime he might be charged with he gets the full penalty...the max. I just don't think it's a political matter.

Would this make it political?

State: Nude summer youth camps alarm lawmaker

Nude summer youth camps alarm lawmaker
Youth camps in the buff are "good old-fashioned naked fun," a leader of nudists says. A lawmaker from Florida considers them something else.
By JAMES THORNER
Published June 19, 2003

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LAND O'LAKES - For 10 years, young people ages 11 to 18 have gathered in Pasco and other Florida counties to pitch tents, swat volleyballs and sing around campfires.

Typical summer camp, save one important distinction: They do it naked.

U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, one of Washington's leading advocates for missing and exploited kids, doesn't like the idea of a clothes-free camp for teenagers. After reading a story Wednesday in the New York Times, he decided to raise a fuss.

Foley, running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Bob Graham, plans to deliver letters today to Gov. Jeb Bush and Attorney General Charlie Crist, singling out Lake Como nudist resort in Land O'Lakes, which hosted a bare-skinned youth camp that ended last week.

Foley said the camp, sponsored by the American Association for Nude Recreation, appears to exploit children to make money.

The camps operate under a Florida law that allows people to be nude as long as they're not lewd. Foley wonders if state statutes should change. Thus the letters to Bush and Crist.

"What's wrong with your kids going to Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls or sports camps?" Foley, the West Palm Beach Republican, said Wednesday from Washington. "It's beyond the pale that this is a normal way to bring up a 14-year-old child."

The adult nudists who run the camps say they teach teenagers healthy lessons about accepting their sometimes awkward adolescent bodies. Aside from the Pasco camp, others are held in Virginia and Arizona.

Erich Schuttauf, executive director of the nude association, called Lake Como's camp, which attracted about 25 young nudists from June 5 to 13, "good old-fashioned naked fun."

"We have always been about a wholesome family-oriented environment suitable for people of all ages," Schuttauf said from his Kissimmee office.

Foley wonders about the wholesomeness.

The New York Times article noted that the kids were subjected to the unwanted gaze of a 40-something visitor to Lake Como peeping from a sauna window.

Lake Como resident Elf Andersen dubbed the man a "COG," which she said stands for "creepy old guy." This particular COG, like all others, was ejected from the 200-acre resort.

"The kids can spot when somebody is not pure of heart," said Andersen, who stressed that campers are protected by adult counselors and sleep in tents isolated from regular resort patrons.

Foley, a fifth term congressman, denies that he's raising the nude camping issue to bolster his chances for the Republican nomination for Senate.

As co-chairman of the House's Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, he lobbied for the AMBER network, a way to broadcast missing children's cases across the country.

He most recently tackled child erotica on the Internet. He said he was shocked by the newspaper article about the naked camps that have been going on in his home state since 1993.

Foley suggested the camps force kids to fixate on nudity during their impressionable, formative years. Normal teen sexual urges can become inflamed by the nakedness around them, he said.

"It's putting matches a little too close to gasoline," he said.

But nudists said the camp's goal is exactly the opposite. Most of the campers have grown up as nudists. Removing the clothes actually minimizes the importance of bodies, they say.

"As you know, kids are natural nudists," Andersen said. "It's so cute to see a naked baby and toddlers. But as we mature somehow that no longer is seen as a wholesome, healthy thing."

[TexKan]

AOO - Me neither - but it's too juicy to pass up - the Democan'ts kant hep themsevs!!!!! I still have questions about the kid....... but it don't matter..... he's underage and Foley needs some help - to his own admission. It's not political....... there are other things more important and there is no way the "whole" story has been told..........

Oh honestly Wordie - get a grip........ That ain't the whole story either.......that's 3 years ago and nope that don't make 2006 political......... it is what it is............ a "Possible crime investigation"......... let folks do thier jobs!!!..........ooops I forgot - no one can have job to do or there won't be folks for the social programs...............geesh!!

[wordsmythe]

Oh NEVERMIND...

He's going to to treament.

CNN.com - As sex e-mail allegations swirl, Foley enters rehab - Oct 2, 2006

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Former Rep. Mark Foley is in an alcoholism treatment center three days after resigning from Congress amid allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to teenage pages, Foley's attorney confirmed Monday.


I didn't know that AA was treament for pedophilia?