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...Biggest Winner in the Foley Scandal Until last week, no one was giving millionaire Democratic candidate Tim Mahoney much of a chance in his race for Congress. Now he's the frontrunner
...Will the Foley Scandal Bring Down Hastert? The Speaker is well-liked by his colleagues, but as Republicans are passing the blame upwards, he's as far up as they...
...Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan on the Foley scandal...
...work against child sex offenders is certainly the most glaring irony of the emerging Foley scandal. Foley is a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and has played key roles in recent legislation to protect kids, including the Volunteers for Children Act, which gives organizations that work with youths access to FBI fingerprint checks to make sure they don't hire child molesters. Foley's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which has passed both the House and Senate, overhauls the national monitoring system for predatory pedophiles by closing legal loopholes, setting minimum...
...family values issues, Foley's orientation was an issue that Florida Republicans - whose leadership, including outgoing Governor Jeb Bush, has taken a sharp right turn in this decade - wrestled with nonetheless while Foley considered running for Senate (the party ultimately backed eventual winner Mel Martinez). The e-mail scandal simply would have made it more difficult for Foley to swim on that G.O.P. beach, and would have almost certainly made the next month of re-election campaigning horrific for him. (G.O.P. House Speaker Dennis Hastert today said Foley had done "the right thing" by resigning.) "When you look...