Florida Republicans accepted donations from ex-congressman who sent lewd messages to underage boys

[brooklynite]

Source: Business Insider

Prominent Republicans have slammed critics of Florida's new sex education bill that critics call "Don't Say Gay" as "groomers" and "pedophiles."

But some Florida Republicans are meanwhile accepting financial contributions from the old campaign committee of an ex-congressman who sent sexually explicit messages to underage boys working as congressional pages.

Former Republican Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned his West Palm Beach district seat over the 2006 messaging scandal, has made $118,250 in donations and sponsorship to the Republican Party of Palm Beach County since 2010 through his ex-campaign committee Friends of Mark Foley for Congress.

Foley's most recent donation to the Republican Party of Palm Beach County came in January, when his campaign committee gave $15,000, according to an Insider analysis of filings from the Federal Elections Commission.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-republicans-palm-beach-grooming-legislation-dont-say-gay-bill-2022-4

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[NQAS]

1. It's always been..,

Projection.

All the vile crimes the extremists are extracting laws to combat are the very crimes their own people are committing. Voter fraud. Pedophiles. Sex and gender issues and crimes. Treason.

[LenaBaby61]

28. Dems better start challenging the party of pedophiles, because we know the media won't.

Call them out on their hypocrisy and lies.

Green continues to call Dems pedophiles, yet she ran around the country with Matt Gaetz. Boebert had the nerve to ask Xavier Becerra if he knew what a woman was, when her husband is a registered sex-offender who she was IN the bowling alley with when he showed his filthy junk to an under-aged teen, and she defended him and supported him in court. Such filthy, vile, projecting hypocrites that lot is. WHY don't Dems take a cue from the Sen. Schatz who went after fist-pumping, loud-mouthed, tReasonous, racist, Nazi Hawley?

Thank God Schatz has that Seat in Hawaii, because we know Tulsi traitor Gabbard would be DEFENDING Hawley with her Russian asset behind.

[Kittycatkat]

2. There's a reason the repugs are trying to normalize child porn & human trafficking...

...and I'm pretty damn sure Putin has the Kompromat on many repugs, including Trump. Would explain ALOT!

[ZZenith]

9. Right there with you.

They know a grand reveal is possible and are proactively seeking to normalize.

Disgusting creatures.

[WhiteTara]

3. no shame

[Grokenstein]

4. Just another day ending in "y" for the party that popularized the phrase "OK groomer."

[peppertree]

5. GOP Groomers, Old Pervs

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Oh, Holy Foley, I remember him

[leftieNanner]

7. I also remember

that when the story broke about Foley, Fox news had the chyron below his name indicating that he was a Democrat! Oopsies! I'm sure that was an honest mistake....

[NCjack]

24. Gov. DeSantis remembers Foley, but he is silent.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

8. Of COURSE they did.

Good to see ped pervert Foley is in a POSition to hand out more than a hundred-thousand dollars to political campaigns

Q-diots...mow your own F'ing lawn.

[Orrex]

10. Lately Republikkkans are really big on accusing others of pedophilia

It's their go-to accusation, because of course the accusation is enough to tarnish the accused, even with no evidence.

Yet here they are, once again leaping into bed with yet another deviant of their own. Who'd'a thunk it?


As always, if a Republikkkan makes an accusation, they're actually making a confession.

[OldBaldy1701E]

25. 'Tarnish' is the beginning.

Take it from someone who almost lost his job and everything else over it. (The accuser then moved to the Dominican Republic... a known trafficking area... wonder why?) That accusation is all anyone has to do. Especially if you are a male. Double especially if you are a single male (in their eyes, since most people still do not automatically accept same sex marriages). Infinity especially if you are all of the above and work at a school. There is no way to avoid the damage. I had the entire faculty and administration behind me, no one else ever made that accusation and the guy was proven to be a slimy weasel. The state even got involved (because he went to them personally to try and get me in trouble). There was nothing more than someone trying to ruin someone else. Yet because it was THAT accusation... there are still repercussions TEN YEARS after that asshole tried to destroy me.

The accusation is all anyone has to do. The media-driven public insanity does the rest. And yes, anytime someone makes such an accusation without actually having an accuser is just projecting. But, as I tried to explain to that state person, the damage is done. That is why it is such an effective social weapon.

[Orrex]

26. Holy shit that's awful

I can't imagine having to defend against all of that, but I'm sure that tends to be "presumed guilty and never proven innocent."

[wontbeoppressed]

11. Hypocrisy is one of their specialties

Projection and hypocrisy are GOP specialties.

[IronLionZion]

12. Conservative predators want it to stay hidden, closeted, unspoken

so that they can prey on young people who have no trusted adults to talk to about it.

Just listen to any of the conservative arguments on this issue. They are always projecting their predatory thoughts. They'll never talk about relationships or families or anything wholesome. Nope it's all about sex, rape, or "grooming".

[Lunabell]

13. GOPedophiles

There sure seems to be a LOT of them.

[world wide wally]

14. Why do you think the GOP wants to eliminate the age required to get married?

That way they can claim they were "engaged" when they get busted with a minor.

[Kittycatkat]

16. And when a minor they raped has a child they can no longer call her a liar and a whore.

DNA can prove they raped the poor child.

[IronLionZion]

19. If she wants to have an abortion, they'll charge her with murder

[Kittycatkat]

20. degenerate mothertrumpers

[keithbvadu2]

15. Any donations to DeSantis? That would be interesting.

Any donations to DeSantis?

That would be interesting.

[druidity33]

17. This is what Sen Reid did before he died...

but Sen Reid wasn't a creepy mutterfunker. Who's keeping an eye out for what happens to Campaign funds for failed candidates? Does the FEC keep public records of disbursement by defunct candidates?

[Talitha]

18. Oh my goodness, what a surprise!

[LenaBaby61]

29. NO WAY I'd sit back and ignore someone who called me a pediophile if I was a Dem.

[sakabatou]

21. I'll file this under "Things that didn't surprise me."

[Grins]

22. How? When he left DC his 'campaign' account was in 7-figures!

I was wondering where he got $54K to spread around in the past year, and there it was

[NCjack]

23. Who likes lewdness? The GOP likes lewdness!

[Brainfodder]

27. Floridians elected Matt G.

Infer what you like, you will any way.