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Former Congressman Mark Foley Apologizes

By Corey Rayburnyung

Mark Foley, the former Republican congressman from Florida who resigned two years ago after sending sexually explicit instant messages to a 17-year old page, gave an interview this week in which he apologized for his behavior.  TalkLeft sums up the interview in its post, Mark Foley Speaks, Says Little. From the Associated Press:Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.Sitting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York this week, the Florida Republican, wearing a yellow tie with blue elephants, finally broke his silence."I'm trying to find my way back," Foley said in an interview with The Associated Press, his first public comments on the scandal since resigning from Congress on Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 12, 2008 (boomark / email).