Another day, another string of revelations in the Mark Foley case.
The Washington Post is about to come out with this:
WASHINGTON--In 1995, male House pages were warned to steer clear of a freshman Republican from Florida, who was already learning the names of the teen-agers, dashing off notes, letters and e-mails to them and asking them to join him for ice cream, according to a former page.
ICE CREAM???
OMG
More from WaPo:
Mark Beck-Heyman, now a graduate student in clinical psychology at George Washington University, and more than a dozen other former House pages said in interviews and via e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley was known to be extraordinarily friendly in a way that made some of them uncomfortable.
Beck-Heyman said the attention was ``weird'' and he provided a handwritten letter that Foley had sent him after the page left Washington to return home to California, suggesting that they get together during the Republican National Convention in San Diego in 1996.
... SNIP ...
Beck-Heyman, who contacted The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, joined the page program in the summer of 1995. He said that a departing page told him to be ``very careful'' of Foley. Within weeks, Beck-Heyman said, Foley had learned his name and asked at least twice to take him to get ice cream. He declined. After one all-night work session, Beck-Heyman's girlfriend--another page--offered to bring him breakfast. Foley asked disapprovingly if she was his girlfriend.
and this:
Matt Schmitz, a former page whose younger brother also was a page, said: ``I certainly warned my little brother, who was a page last year. A few of the members are a little friendlier to the pages.''