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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
 
Why is Tom Davis getting a free pass on Foleygate? Rep. Sue Kelly flipped her lid when someone dared to ask about her time on the Committee that oversees the page program. Davis has to be on a hair trigger with his biggest challenge ever and his Senate dreams slipping away. Someone must ask Davis what he did and said when he handed the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee over to Rep. Reynolds. It's been reported that Reynolds had to contend with pressure from Karl Rove to tell Foley he must stay in Congress to protect the Republican majority, even while Reynolds was getting information on Foley's harassing boys. Reynolds has apologized to the voters in his district and pretty much admitted he should have put the safety of the boys over politics. It's been reported that Foley's troubles long predate Reynolds' being head of the RCCC to the time when Davis was head of the RCCC. What did Davis know and when did he know it? How many times did Davis direct money, support, and pressure to stay to Foley when he knew or should have known that Foley was harassing boys? Make Tom Davis come clean!
 
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Typically, one has to present proof of wrong doing before an accused has to come clean.

Why don't you present proof of wrong doing, instead of your suppositions?

Or would that run counter to your Big Lie mentality of presenting assumptions and wishes as reality?
 
I'm not prosecuting Tom Davis. He has no 5th Amendment rights here. By standing for re-election he is essentially re-applying for his job, and as a voter in VA-11, I have a right to know whether or not Tom Davis as the head of the NRCC during the time when ex-Rep. Foley was simultaneously running for re-election himself and reportedly harassing boys knew or should have known what Foley was up to. It just so happens that I'm a supporter of Hurst and an opposer of Davis, but under our winner-take-all two party system, there is no substitute for people in my position to challenge the person opposed and ask the tough questions. Davis can continue to stonewall and hope that his silence carries the day, but I've been consistent in pointing out to him that the truth will out, and it will be better for him in the long run to be on the right side of the issues. There should be no difference between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of what's more important the safety of minors placed in Congress's care or politics.
 
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