By: TRUTH CAUCUS · 10/06/2006 · AIM: crnctruthcaucus · Section: To Wit

TO WIT – FOLEY BLOWN

As the stock market breaks records, and the North Koreans claim to be doing whatever-it-is that they claim to be doing, and as the Amish bury their dead (the only thing I know about the Amish involves having watched M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village”), and as the Foley scandel finishes week two, we have a few things to talk about:

Jordan Edmund, a 21 year-old former Berkeley student working for Istook for Governor in Oklahoma City, claimed to friends and associates that his IM sessions were a joke (on his end) and that he wasn’t serious when he told Mark Foley that he turns him on.

He has since sought “legal refuge.”

One thing we do know is that Jordan Edmund previously worked on Shirley Horton’s campaign for California state assembly in San Diego—a campaign that was organized by the demonstrably excellent former California CR State Chairman Stephen Puetz.

I was tracking this story all day yesterday, sifting through a myriad of reports. Initially, Edmund told a source that his computer might have been hacked. (He wouldn’t want any of his conservative friends in the Bible Belt to think he’s gay, now would he?)

Does any of this explain why he had conversations of a sexual nature with Mark Foley and never said the word “stop”? Is he actually innocent in all of this? Or was he using Foley to advance his own political career—which will now come with a steep price: the House of Representatives.

One can only speculate (my second best friend) as to why Edmund has hired a criminal attorney (usually a sign that you’ve done something wrong, but not always). Perhaps he’s not going to sue ABC News for accidentally surrendering his identity. Perhaps he thinks he could be in legal jeopardy. Perhaps he has reason to believe that he needs an attorney who defended a man who has the blood of 168 Americans on his hands (Timothy McVeigh).

But, there are other things the media is concerned with.

Leave it to the New York Times to tell us what we need to know: Dennis Hastert has ate out every night since 1986. (Something that I could have told you by running a simple Google image search.) [NY Times]

Meanwhile, the wars on Capitol Hill continue.

Kirk Fordham, Tom Reynolds’ former Chief of Staff, says that he informed the Speaker’s staff (i.e. Ron Bonjean) about Mark Foley’s “inappropriate behavior” a long time ago.

The Speaker of the House Communications guru Ron Bonjean says, “What Kirk Fordham says did not happen.”

Stay tuned, we have ourselves a domestic dispute.

As if we need another story to make it look like we’re the party of “covering up sexual predation,” a Pennsylvania lawmaker, Eugene McGill, is defending allegations that he urged a judge in 2003 to show leniency for a friend who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and was later labeled a violent predator by the court. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

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