Foley E-Mails 1st Reported in Fall '05:Internal Review of Contacts

[cal04]

Internal Review of Contacts With the Office of the Speaker Regarding the Congressman Mark Foley Matter

On Friday, September 29, the Speaker Dennis Hastert directed his Chief of Staff and Outside Counsel to conduct an internal review to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding contact with the Office of the Speaker regarding the Congressman Mark Foley matter. The following is their preliminary report.

Email Exchange Between Congressman Foley and a Constituent of Congressman Alexander

In the fall of 2005 Tim Kennedy, a staff assistant in the Speaker's Office, received a telephone call from Congressman Rodney Alexander's Chief of Staff who indicated that he had an email exchange between Congressman Foley and a former House page. He did not reveal the specific text of the email but expressed that he and Congressman Alexander were concerned about it.

Kennedy immediately discussed the matter with his supervisor, Mike Stokke, Speaker Hastert's Deputy Chief of Staff. Stokke directed Kennedy to ask Ted Van Der Meid, the Speaker's in house Counsel, who the proper person was for Congressman Alexander to report a problem related to a former page. Ted Van Der Meid told Kennedy it was the Clerk of the House who should be notified as the responsible House Officer for the page program. Later that day Stokke met with Congressman Alexander's Chief of Staff. Once again the specific content of the email was not discussed. Stokke called the Clerk and asked him to come to the Speaker's Office so that he could put him together with Congressman Alexander's Chief of Staff. The Clerk and Congressman Alexander's Chief of Staff then went to the Clerk's Office to discuss the matter.


more
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73543
Foley E-Mails First Reported in Fall '05
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6116902,00.html

[SoCalDem]

1. Foley had to feel "comfortable" emailing the kid..

My guess is that "something happened" when the kid was in DC, and Foley wanted to "stay in touch" to test the waters, and perhaps to reassure himself that the kid would not spill the beans..

The kid might be ashamed and once at home, felt secure enough to tell his parents.. With no future contact with Foley, and not wanting to go public, the kid may have just told about the emails and thought the whole thing was over..

[Oilwellian]

2. I wonder....

How did Foley get the pages email addresses? Isn't it odd that a Florida representative has the email address of a page from Louisiana?