The messages revealing possible contact between Foley and a page in San Diego just widened the trail and scope of who may have known of Foleys interest in young pages.
Mark Beck-Heyman, of San Diego, came to D.C in 1995, at 17 years of age to work as a congressional page, having been nominated by Congressman Brian Bilbray-R. And learned almost from day one that there was one person to be careful of: Rep. Mark Foley.
"When I got there, I was warned about Foley from former pages and cloakroom Republican staffers," said Beck-Heyman, who attended a Catholic high school at the time and was nominated for the page program by Republican Rep. Brian Bilbray, who then lived in Imperial Beach. "The warning was to watch out for him."
He provided The Washington Post with 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.
San Diego-area House members said they hadn't heard until last week that Foley was involved in sexually explicit instant messages to at least one male teen who served as a page, and a questionable e-mail exchange with another.
But, Beck-Heyman said an outgoing page and an adult staffer in the GOP cloakroom - a place just off the House floor restricted to lawmakers - warned him to be careful of Foley, a freshman lawmaker who had arrived that January.
That indicates they knew Foley well, very very early on. Before he became chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
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