Foley saga has Tennessee ties.

[TNDemo]

This is from the Knoxville newspaper. This was a former Karns High School student who now lives in Atlanta.



http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5044315,00.html

An Atlanta man says former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley sent him sexually suggestive messages after he served as a congressional page 10 years ago.

Vivyan said Thursday that Foley, a Florida Republican, began sending him instant messages about a month or two after his nine-month stint as a page ended in June 1997.

"Even though the behavior itself was repugnant, I thought it was an isolated event," Vivyan said. "I was surprised by the extent of it but I wasn’t shocked by his behavior."

Vivyan said he never met Foley personally during his stint as a page, other than brief greetings while working as a page in the cloakroom beside the House chamber where members take breaks.
A few months later, he said, he started getting instant messages via computer from a person with the screen name MAF54, which has been linked in news reports to Foley. He wasn’t sure who it was, but the person knew his name and physical description. The person asked personal questions, such as his sexual preference.

"I began getting messages that were almost explicit in nature," Vivyan said.

Vivyan said he figured the person had to be on Capitol Hill, and began looking up initials in a congressional guide. When he found Foley’s initials — MAF, born in 1954 — he realized who it was.