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| Ex-Congresscritter Mark Foley endorses Obama |
| 2008-10-21 |
| Variety's DC gossip column I got an excited phone call yesterday from two friends, TV producer Richard Ayoub and talent manager Dolores Cantu, who were having lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Sitting the next table over was Foley, who resigned just before the midterms after the revelation that he sent inappropriate e-mail messages to a congressional page. Ayounb and Cantu didn't know immediately recognize him until he told them he had once been in Congress. The jist of the conversation then went like this, according to both: Cantu: "You didn't have an affair, did you?" Foley: "Well, I was..." Realizing who was in their midst, Ayoub, who has a penchant for devilish humor, offered a deadpanned admonishment, "You should not flirt with congressional pages." Foley went on to say that nothing happened, he didn't realize that the page was only 18, and that he perhaps was a bit tipsy when he sent the e-mails. What they both said was how |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Not surprising. Hollywood is queer city and he fits right in. |
| Posted by: Jusoger Speaking for Boskone8130 2008-10-21 16:34 |
| #2 Drudge has a blurb where Foley says he didn't. |
| Posted by: DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 2008-10-21 15:39 |
| #1 Rarely do political shenanigans leave me speechless. This, however... |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-10-21 12:47 |