There have been so many scandals since October, 2006, the month that I launched this blog, that I just about forgot who Mark Foley was.
I got an excited phone call yesterday from two friends, TV producer Richard Ayoub and talent manager Dolores Cantu, who were having lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Sitting the next table over was Foley, who resigned just before the midterms after the revelation that he sent inappropriate e-mail messages to a congressional page.
Ayoub and Cantu didn't know immediately recognize him until he told them he had once been in Congress. The jist of the conversation then went like this, according to both:
Cantu: "You didn't have an affair, did you?"
Foley: "Well, I was..."
Realizing who was in their midst, Ayoub, who has a penchant for devilish humor, offered a deadpanned admonishment, "You should not flirt with congressional pages." Foley went on to say that nothing happened, he didn't realize that the page was only 18, and that he perhaps was a bit tipsy when he sent the e-mails.
What they both said was how great Foley looked, and he was particularly excited about Colin Powell's endorsement that morning of Obama. Foley said he also favors Obama.
And Foley also expressed some pleasure in watching the latest developments from his old Florida district: His successor, Democrat Tim Mahoney, is now in trouble for a series of extramarital affairs.
Foley was never charged with any crime, and Florida law enforcement officials said last month there was "insufficient evidence" to charge him.
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New York, New York (IPP) - Presidential candidate Obama's tour bus developed a problem with its toilet yesterday on the New York thru-way just outside of New York City and had to pull over at a rest stop so that Obama could use the restroom.
Secret Service agents noticed that the men sitting on toilets on each side of Obama were tapping Obama's shoes with their shoes.
The Secret Service agents brought in a crow bar and forced open the stalls where the men were sitting and arrested former Florida Republican representative Mark Foley and former Idaho Republican senator Larry Craig on assault charges.
Both men denied that they had commited any crime as they were taken into custody and placed in separate vehicles. Obama's bus left the area without further incident.
