NYT: Foley Case Snags Incumbent in Ohio Race for House Seat

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/us/politics/12cong.html?hp&ex=1160625600&en=c9ff96c77c29fc36&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Representative Deborah Pryce is a former municipal court judge, a Republican and a member of the House leadership who has represented her central Ohio district for 14 years. She is also friends with Mark Foley, the congressman who resigned in the page scandal, as she told Columbus Monthly for a feature it published just last month.

Ms. Pryce always thought she would have a difficult re-election campaign this year in a state raked by Republican scandals. But since Mr. Foley quit, she said in an interview on a tense day of campaigning here, her own internal polls have measured a steady drop in support under the weight of attacks by Mary Jo Kilroy, her Democratic opponent.

Ms. Kilroy has emphasized Ms. Pryce’s connections to Mr. Foley, who was on a list of five people Ms. Pryce said she considered Washington friends in the Columbus Monthly interview.

“I’m totally convinced,” Ms. Pryce said, her voice faint, as she described why her support had declined. “All our polling showed we were going in the right direction until this happened. It fell precipitously.”

“It’s very sad that sometimes we’re slipped up by things that we have no control over and have absolutely nothing to do with,” she said. “But that is part and parcel of politics.”

[usregimechange]

1. And not watching who you associate with.

[Cha]

17. And being a republiCON in

these slimey times of the bush republiCONS.

This woman had never heard ANYTHING about how mark foley stalked republicon Pages?

[TacticalPeek]

2. K&R

:kick:

[truthisfreedom]

3. how could anyone have known? (places hand to mouth) honestly! we were

just shocked by these revelations!

denny hastert has blown it for his whole party. one stupid man trying to keep power for the sake of power and he blows it all on a stupid coverup of a sexual predator.

[Dhalgren]

4. Republicans have got to be the most clueless creatures on the

planet! This is their stock phrase: "How could we/anyone have known (terrorists would use planes as bombs)/ (that there were no WMDs/the intelligence was bad)/ (that Saddam had no links to Al Quaeda)/ (that the levies would fail)/ (that Plame was a covert agent)/ (that Foley was diddling the pages)/ (and anything else that goes wrong on their watch)..." Jeese Louise, these fucks have no clue about anything - oh, yeah, they're the ones to vote for!

[ninkasi]

5. Yeah, it's a pity that they don't

all have the psychic ability we at DU have, isn't it? I mean, we've pretty much predicted the way things have turned out in Iraq, how the republican economic policies would hurt us, and how corrupt they are. Of course, being honest and caring more about the public good than lining our own pockets, and trying to stop war mongering, is something we learned by reading Tarot cards. It couldn't have anything to do with using rational thinking, would it?

[Bozita]

6. That's really good! ... Thanks.

[Zhade]

7. We may come to thank Hastert.

Ironic, eh?

[Cha]

18. You have to give republicons the

flight and the seat number.

[Erika]

8. Americans don't like adults messing with their kids

As John Walsh said. The GOP doesn't understand that?

She calls Foley a friend? Friends don't let friends become child predators.

[JoFerret]

14. Glad you have surrounded yourself with purity

.

[tavalon]

15. No one is pure

But surely we can agree that there are levels of purity and being a child predator falls pretty low on that rung, right?

[keopeli]

9. You could have renounced him, submitted an ethics inquiry yourself,

and thrown a tantrum at Hastert. Maybe then your voters would believe you didn't know anything about this. Instead, you've equivocated the solicitation of a minor with your job in Congress. Shame on you

[w4rma]

10. No, you did not "have absolutely nothing to do with" this.

You are a member of the House Republican leadership and should have led the Republican House with more ethics. You should not have, inactively or actively, assisted with the cover up.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Foley-related LTTE activities: GOP frantically digging for dirt

Posted on Wed, Oct. 11, 2006
GOP frantically digging for dirt

Patrick Buchanan (OpEd, Oct. 8) and other Republican mouthpieces can't seem to talk about the ``Foley scandal'' without linking former Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco.

The Studds incident took place 23 years ago, or five years before Nancy Pelosi was elected to the House of Representatives. What she, any current Democrat, or the censure of Studds has to do with the Foley problem baffles me.

Buchanan also works hard to link Hillary Clinton to NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association. That's quite a stretch, even for Buchanan.

Thomas Braucht
Los Gatos
(snip/)

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/15729930.htm

:woohoo:

[Judi Lynn]

12. Foley-related Rep. Chris Cannon activities: Sex, politics and Rep. Cannon

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Sex, politics and Rep. Cannon

Daily Herald
A Utah politician found himself mired in the Mark Foley scandal last week.

U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon, commenting on reports that Foley, a Florida Republican, sent sexually explicit e-mails and instant messages to teenage House pages, said that the young men may bear responsibility for the scandal that cost Foley his seat and could bring an end to the GOP's 12-year control of the House.

"These kids are actually precocious kids," Cannon told interviewers on KSL. "It looks like maybe this one e-mail is a prank where he had a bunch of kids sitting around, egging this guy on."

The idea is not original to Cannon -- it was mentioned on a conservative Weblog -- but the fact that Cannon would give it credence by repeating it is surprising. He also suggested that the pages' parents needed to assume responsibility for teaching their kids how to properly use the Internet.

Cannon explained the next day that he was only trying to emphasize that information technology makes it easier for sexual predators to reach out and touch unsuspecting young people. Rather than dancing, however, it would have been better for Cannon to take a clear stand against Foley's behavior. Protecting the Republican Party takes a back seat to ethics.

One irony in the saga is that Foley was a sponsor of legislation that would crack down on sexual predators. But Cannon heaped on a little more. He was one of the House managers who prosecuted President Bill Clinton in impeachment proceedings for lying about the Monica Lewinsky affair.
(snip/...)

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/196378/3/

[saigon68]

13. suggested that the pages' parents needed to teach their kids

Right Cannon, here is the exchange

LOL

Mom, " Jimmy see that man with his zipper down and his thing hanging out---STAY AWAY FROM HIM"

[Nihil]

16. I really should slow down when reading the topic list ...

... I could have sworn the headline was

"NYT: Foley Shags Incumbent in Ohio Race for House Seat"

:wow:

[maxrandb]

19. I don't know Ms Kilroy

but if there are not signs and paint and chalk all over her district reading "Kilroy Was Here", I'd fire her campaign manager.

[jseankil]

20. Pryce in bed with big oil and war contractors. Please spread link inside

* Rep. Pryce voted for the GOP energy bill that gave billions to oil, gas and nuclear industries.

* Big oil and gas industries have given Rep. Pryce $81,067. Any surprise?

* Rep. Pryce voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable.

* Rep. Pryce voted against granting a bonus to grant a $1,500 bonus to every American service member serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, including National Guard and Reserve forces.

-more-
http://www.dccc.org/gopauctionhouse/members/DeborahPryceOH-15.html

[goodboy]

21. this is great news,...I can't STAND debbie pryce...I used to live in her

district.

:rofl:

[rodeodance]

22. Foley Case Snags Incumbent (D. Pryce) in Ohio Race for House Seat

"now described as tied in internal party polls,"



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/us/politics/12cong.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

October 12, 2006
Foley Case Snags Incumbent in Ohio Race for House Seat
By ADAM NAGOURNEY

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 11 — Representative Deborah Pryce is a former municipal court judge, a Republican and a member of the House leadership who has represented her central Ohio district for 14 years. She is also friends with Mark Foley, the congressman who resigned in the page scandal, as she told Columbus Monthly for a feature it published just last month.

Ms. Pryce always thought she would have a difficult re-election campaign this year in a state raked by Republican scandals. But since Mr. Foley quit, she said in an interview on a tense day of campaigning here, her own internal polls have measured a steady drop in support under the weight of attacks by Mary Jo Kilroy, her Democratic opponent.

Ms. Kilroy has emphasized Ms. Pryce’s connections to Mr. Foley, who was on a list of five people Ms. Pryce said she considered Washington friends in the Columbus Monthly interview.

“I’m totally convinced,” Ms. Pryce said, her voice faint, as she described why her support had declined. “All our polling showed we were going in the right direction until this happened. It fell precipitously.”

“It’s very sad that sometimes we’re slipped up by things that we have no control over and have absolutely nothing to do with,” she said. “But that is part and parcel of politics.”

.........

[hobbit709]

23. Evidently she doesn't think that

her nutjob views had any impact on her drop in popularity.

[Greeby]

24. Even if they steal this race

The fact that they had to steal it, shows how screwed the GOP is

[Xipe Totec]

25. You lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas

why the surprise?

[xchrom]

26. i feel SO bad for ms pryce.

not.

she should be booted for her vote re: more money for vets and service people etc. -- but what ever.