Mark Foley Resigns

I have some mixed emotions about the Mark Foley(R-FL) resignation. Foley is the representative for my part of Florida and while I had hoped he would lose his re-election bid I never thought he would go down in flames like this.

His voting record is about as close to diametrically opposed to my views as possible and his responses to emails were always form letters. I always read them and they were all identical. That told me he didn't give a damn what his constituents thought. I am gald he is gone but I still really wish it hadn't ended this way. He apparently has done some VERY bad things as reported by ABC News ( I found this courtesy of Talking Points Memo they reported on it here and here ).

When I first read the emails yesterday I thought they aren't that bad. As I thought about it more though I pondered what if my fifteen yr old son ( and yes I have one) was getting emails like this from a 54 yr old stranger? I would certainly be concerned. Then today the rest of the story breaks and after reading the transcript at ABC I was sickened.

He never really represented me anyway, now he doesn't legally represent me either. I suppose I should feel glad we got this pedophile and another Rubber Stamp Republicn out of office in one fell swoop. After the damage he's has done to this minor and his own family with these actions it just isn't that easy.