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A Seattle political activist was arrested on November 29, 2006 for soliciting sex online with a 13-year-old girl.  Upon arriving to meet her at a Capitol Hill neighborhood video store, he was surprised to discover that she was not 13, but a police officer.
From the Seattle Times article:

Larry Corrigan, a well-known activist in local Republican politics as a backer of U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert and King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng, was arrested Wednesday in an Internet sting for allegedly trying to arrange sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Corrigan was the director of financial operations at the prosecutor’s office for more than 25 years and was deputy treasurer in Reichert’s 1997 and 2001 runs for King County sheriff. He was also a supporter without an official role in Reichert’s congressional campaigns.

The following graphic was shown not once but 3 times during the O’Reilly Factor. Nice try. I understand that political party would want to acknowledge him as a member, but come on.

As you know by now, he is not a democrat but a Republican pedophile.

via Crooks & Liars

Rep. Tom Reynolds is running scared at this point.

Kirk Fordham, the chief of staff to Rep. Tom Reynolds, has resigned or was fired.  This is directly related to the unfolding scandal related to former Representative, and current republican pedophiliac, Mark Foley.  Apparently, he held the same position previously under Mark Foley.

According to The Buffalo News, Kirk Fordham was directly involved in an attempt to cover up the unfolding scandal involving Mark Foley.

Kirk Fordham, Reynolds’ chief of staff, acknowledged in an interview Tuesday that he approached ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross last Friday with an offer: Ross would get the exclusive story on Foley’s resignation from Congress in exchange for withholding those salacious instant messages.

The article continues

So, Rep. Reynolds is now finding himself in house cleaning mode in an attempt to save himself.

At this point a little more background on Rep. Tom Reynolds and his attempts to separate himself from the growing scandal is probably appropriate.
On Monday October 2nd he held a strange press conference with a brief statement followed by a question answer phase.  At this press conference, Rep. Tom Reynolds surrounded himself with children. Below is a clip showing the conference and a couple of questions from the press. Additional analysis is available over at the Random Thoughts 101 blog.
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The use of children like this does nothing to make him appear more trustworthy, it is a little creepy to me.  Additionally, it is a weak ass attempt to keep the questions from being to pointed, because after all, “there are children in the room”.  In fact at one point in the clip, a reporter actually asks Rep. Reynolds to remove the children from the room and he refuses.

One of the best parts of the clip is when a reporter asks “Who are these children”?  Rep. Reynolds seemed to be caught off guard and stumbled for a bit before stating “these are my supporters”.
This guy is scared.
Realizing the disaster of this press conference, he held another one yesterday, which is covered quite nicely by the Buffalo Geek’s blog.

I wonder what Laura Bush is thinking right now?  She is arriving today to support Rep. Reynolds at a fundraiser.

Mark Foley the disgraced Republican, former Representative, and former member of the caucus on missing and exploited children is getting help.

Today he checked into rehab for a problem he is currently having. I hope that he gets the help that he needs.
Unfortunately, denial may be his most pressing problem because he checked into a clinic to treat his problem with alcohol.

It is NOT the alcohol. It isn’t his homosexuality. Nope.

It is Mark Foley’s pedophilia and predatory nature. Now if these kids had been over 18, former Representative Mark Foley of Florida would just be a pathetic pervert, but they weren’t, so instead he is a disgusting pedophiliac and soon to be FELON.

So, I would skip the alcohol treatment, because I predict that he is going to be drinking a lot over the next months. That is until he goes to jail. Then Mark Foley, Republican and Felon, will have to learn how to make prison hooch.

From the party that purports to represent tradional family values, we get another sick, twisted, hypocritical congressman.

Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page.

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The page worked for Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., who said Friday that when he learned of the e-mail exchanges 10 to 11 months ago, he called the teen’s parents. Alexander told the Ruston Daily Leader, “We also notified the House leadership that there might be a potential problem,” a reference to the House’s Republican leaders.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Friday he had asked the chairman of the House’s page board, Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., to investigate the page system. “We want to make sure that all our pages are safe and the page system is safe,” Hastert said.

He said Foley submitted the letter of resignation to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and submitted a copy to him. A House clerk read Foley’s resignation on the House floor.

“He’s done the right thing,” Hastert said. Asked if the chain of events was disturbing, he said, “None of us are very happy about it.”

ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former teenage male pages. In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page: “Do I make you a little horny?”

In another message, Foley wrote, “You in your boxers, too? … Well, strip down and get naked.”

And what did the teenage boy say about this?

…the boy e-mailed a colleague in Alexander’s office about Foley’s e-mails, saying, “This freaked me out.” On the request for a photo, the boy repeated the word “sick” 13 times.

And what values did Foley pretend to defend while in Congress?

Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect.

“We track library books better than we do sexual predators,” Foley has said.

And he once accused the Supreme Court of “siding with pedophiles over children.”

Now the only question that remains is, will the people in Florida elect whatever replacement the Republicans can plug into the race?  My guess is they will, and they deserve what they get.