Eleven people who were paid as much as $10 for each voter they registered in a Republican recruiting drive targeting central Orange County were charged with fraud.
Fraudulent voter registration charges were filed this week by prosecutors who said Democrats were unwittingly signed up as Republicans. Central Orange County includes the district represented by Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez.
There were at least 37 instances in which Democratic, Green Party voters and a noncitizen were registered as Republicans. Each defendant was charged with felony counts of fraudulent completion of registration affidavits.
No charges were filed against the companies or executives hired by the Republican Party to conduct the registration drive.
County GOP chairman Scott Baugh said he got complaints from people who received letters welcoming them to the Republican Party. Registration workers were fired for being too aggressive or submitting faulty paperwork, he said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 — The Interior Department has dropped claims that the Chevron Corporation systematically underpaid the government for natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, a decision that could allow energy companies to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.
The agency had ordered Chevron to pay $6 million in additional royalties but could have sought tens of millions more had it prevailed. The decision also sets a precedent that could make it easier for oil and gas companies to lower the value of what they pump each year from federal property and thus their payments to the government.
Interior officials said on Friday that they had no choice but to drop their order to Chevron because a department appeals board had ruled against auditors in a separate case.
They "had no choice" but to drop their order.
Funny how their political will dries up when it means confronting Chevron versus interrogating an innocent Pakistani taxi driver whom they want to torture for no good reason.
At least if we tortured Chevron, Condi's ex-playground, we'd get a few hundred million dollars to help us pay for all the renditions and the Abu Ghraibs.
[Eventually] Jenna will wind up engaged to the son of some rich industrialist or someone with a claim to a royal bloodline in South America. Those 400 Marines are probably the beginnings of what will eventually be Bush's private army. The Bushes are starting to wear out their welcome in the US. They have to move on to somewhere with less oversight.
And that's what this election in twelve days is really all about — oversight and accountability.
Brent Schepp's name will remain on the ballot as the Republican candidate for the Kane County Board's 3rd District in Aurora, despite his death Tuesday in a car crash.
Carole Holtz, Aurora Election Commission director, said it would be "very expensive" to reprint ballots without his name at this point.
"My ballots are printed, everything is set," for the Nov. 7 general election, she said Wednesday.
But it would not be set if the Kane County Republican Organization decided to put a new candidate in Schepp's place. The GOP can slate a candidate up to 15 days before the election, which is Monday, Oct. 23.
If officials did that, the Election Commission would have to reprint its ballots. Still, Kane GOP Chairman Dennis Wiggins said Wednesday the county organization is "not planning to put anyone in there."
"We can't stop a write-in, obviously," Wiggins said. "But my recommendation is we just leave it alone."
If Schepp's name stays on the ballot, people still can vote for him. If Schepp were to win, it then would be up to the county board to replace him.
Board Chairwoman Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles, would make the appointment, with the advice of the county GOP organization. Then the board would have to approve the appointment. That is the standard situation when there is a county board vacancy.
Schepp, 36, died Tuesday morning when his car crashed into the concrete support of a pedestrian bridge over Eola Road, south of Diehl Road, on Aurora's far-northeast side. The accident occurred four days after a Kane County grand jury indicted Schepp with felonies of criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and a misdemeanor count of providing alcohol to minors.
The 26-count indictment alleged that Schepp had sexual contact with two girls, now 15 and 16 years old, between June 1 and Dec. 31, 2005.
Police on Tuesday said it appeared preliminarily the crash was "a self-inflicted act," because there was no sign of braking or evasive maneuvers at the accident scene.
Let's see: the girls were 14 and 15 years old at the time Schepp molested them. And just one short year later Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles, may get to appoint a replacement for their molester.
Rather than run a new candidate, the Kane County GOP decided to let people vote for their dead sex predator and only afterward select an appropriate replacement, whatever that might mean.
"The Enron fraud is as large and as serious as any other fraud in the nation's history," said prosecutor Sean Berkowitz.
"This was not a one-time event where someone made an judgment in error," Berkowitz said.
He also said Skilling's philanthropy was worth noting but " ... It is not unusual for someone in his position to give back to the community, in fact it is required."
Berkowitz quoted from a victims letter: "Mr. Skilling's philanthropy was paid out of my future."
The Iraq invasion was paid out of my future.
The tax cuts to America's richest 1 percent were paid out of my future.
The no-bid Halliburton contracts were paid out of my future.
The stolen Iraqi reconstruction funds were paid out of my future.
The failure to catch bin Laden was paid out of my future.
The failure to reform Afghanistan was paid out of my future.
The destruction of New Orleans was paid out of my future.
The failures of national security were paid out of my future.
The loss of respect for America around the world was paid out of my future.
The failure of our medical system was paid out of my future.
Lay and Skilling are but symptoms of the Republican disease. Enron, which was instrumental in putting Bush-Cheney 2000 into the White House, was the virus that sickened America's future.
As worries go, however, having the US president move in next door must come fairly low on the list.
Unless of course you are a resident of northern Paraguay and believe reports in the South American press that he has bought up a 100,000 acre (40,500 hectare) ranch in your neck of the woods.
The rumours, as yet unconfirmed but which began with the state-run Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, have triggered an outpouring of conspiracy theories, with speculation rife about what President Bush's supposed interest in the "chaco", a semi-arid lowland in the Paraguay's north, might be. Some have speculated that he might be trying to wrestle control of the Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest underground water reserves, from the Paraguayans.
Rumours of Mr Bush's supposed forays into South American real estate surfaced during a recent 10-day visit to the country by his daughter Jenna Bush. Little is known about her trip to Paraguay, although officially she travelled with the UN children's agency Unicef to visit social projects. Photographers from the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color tracked her down to one restaurant in Paraguay's capital Asunción, where she was seen flanked by 10 security guards, and was also reported to have met Paraguay's president, Nicanor Duarte, and the US ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Reports in sections of the Paraguayan media suggested she was sent on a family "mission" to tie up the land purchase in the "chaco".
Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta, the governor of the Alto Paraguay region where Mr Bush's new acquisition supposedly lies, told one Paraguayan news agency there were indications that Mr Bush had bought land in Paso de Patria, near the border with Brazil and Bolivia. He was, however, unable to prove this, he added.
Last week the Paraguayan news group Neike suggested that Ms Bush was in Paraguay to "visit the land acquired by her father - relatively close to the Brazilian Pantanal [wetlands] and the Bolivian gas reserves".
The US presence in Paraguay has been under scrutiny since May 2005 when the country's Congress agreed to allow 400 American marines to operate there for 18 months in exchange for financial aid.
As a hideout for expatriated war criminals, in addition to its energy and water (the newest precious liquid commodity) reserves, Paraguay makes perfect sense for George and Family.
(AP) - NEW HAVEN, Conn.-A federal judge in a sport utility ran into a police officer directing traffic in the rain, critically injuring the officer, authorities said Thursday.
New Haven police Chief Francisco Ortiz said Senior Judge John M. Walker was "very much distraught" over the Tuesday night crash.
Officer Dan Picagli, 38, was in critical condition Thursday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He had been wearing a black raincoat and a reflective vest when he was hit, Ortiz said.
Ortiz said Walker is cooperating, and police did not feel it was necessary to test him for drugs or alcohol.
Walker, 65, stepped down this month as chief judge of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals but he maintains court chambers in New Haven. He was appointed to the New York-based court in 1989 by President George H.W. Bush, who is a cousin of the judge.
Why is it that an innocent applicant for any janitorial job is routinely subjected to drug testing, but a federal judge who nearly kills a cop is not?
Oil company executives have been cringing at the poll results, economists all but screaming.
Nearly a third of all Americans believe the oil industry, in cahoots with the White House, is orchestrating the recent drop in energy prices to help Republicans in November.
So there was groaning again on Thursday when House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., issued a news release that was headlined: "Gas prices continue to fall during a Republican majority."
Oil price manipulation is only the second conspiracy he's been discovered to be involved in since the beginning of this month. And, despite the unseemliness of teenage penis measurement by Republican lawmakers, this is the more serious one.
A Kane County Board candidate arrested last week on sexual assault charges died Tuesday when his vehicle slammed head-on into a concrete bridge support, Aurora police said.
Brent K. Schepp, 36, a father of four from Aurora, was traveling at "a very high rate of speed" on Eola Road and did not try to brake or take any evasive action, said Dan Ferrelli, police spokesman.
"At this point in the investigation, we believe this to be self-inflicted," Ferrelli said, adding that the coroner and an inquest will determine the cause of death.
Schepp was seeking the board's District 3 seat, but his first bid for office quickly unraveled with the announcement Friday of charges that he sexually abused and assaulted two teenage girls in 2005. The Kane County Republican Central Committee withdrew its endorsement of his candidacy that afternoon.
As Schepp may have learned from the example of fellow Republican Ken Lay, death, possibly by suicide, is one sure way to avoid criminal accountability.
A federal judge in Houston this afternoon wiped away the fraud and conspiracy conviction of Kenneth L. Lay, the Enron Corp. founder who died of heart disease in July, bowing to decades of legal precedent but frustrating government attempts to seize nearly $44 million from his estate.
The ruling worried employees and investors who lost billions of dollars when the Houston energy trading company filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2001. It also came weeks after Congress recessed for the November elections without acting on a last-ditch Justice Department proposal that would have changed the law to allow prosecutors to seize millions in investments and other assets that Lay controlled.
With the judge's order, Lay's conviction on 10 criminal charges will be erased from the record. "The indictment against Kenneth L. Lay is dismissed," U.S. District Judge Simeon T. Lake III wrote in a spare, 13-page order.
(AP) - PHOENIX-A state lawmaker who wants to reinstate a 1950s federal deportation program known as "Operation Wetback" is under fire again for sending supporters information from a white separatist group.
Republican Rep. Russell Pearce has apologized for e-mailing the article from the West Virginia-based National Alliance. But that hasn't stopped criticism from all directions, including state GOP leaders. [...]
The article lashes out at how the media portrays "any racially conscious White person who looks askance at miscegenation or at the rapidly darkening racial situation in America."
It says the "media masters" force on the public their view of "a world in which every voice proclaims the equality of the races, the inerrant nature of the Jewish 'Holocaust' tale, the wickedness of attempting to halt the flood of non-White aliens pouring across our borders ... ."
Yesterday, a source close to Foley explained to THE NEW REPUBLIC that in early 2006 the congressman had all but decided to retire from the House and set up shop on K Street. "Mark's a friend of mine," says this source. "He told me, 'I'm thinking about getting out of it and becoming a lobbyist.'"
But when Foley's friend saw the Congressman again this spring, something had changed. To the source's surprise, Foley told him he would indeed be standing for re-election. What happened? Karl Rove intervened.
According to the source, Foley said he was being pressured by "the White House and Rove gang," who insisted that Foley run. If he didn't, Foley was told, it might impact his lobbying career.
"He said, 'The White House made it very clear I have to run,'" explains Foley's friend, adding that Foley told him that the White House promised that if Foley served for two more years it would "enhance his success" as a lobbyist. "I said, 'I thought you wanted out of this?' And he said, 'I do, but they're scared of losing the House and the thought of two years of Congressional hearings, so I have two more years of duty.'"
Let the two years of Congressional hearings begin!
Your average Houstonian watches his average healthcare cost double in six years of his ex-governor's rule. It serves the average Houstonian right for settling for below-average leadership.
What liberals believe. Because of the Chicago Tribune's registration process, I'm quoting in full the ten propositions of what it means to be a liberal by Geoffrey R. Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and the author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime. I added the boldface to each proposition:
1. Liberals believe individuals should doubt their own truths and consider fairly and open-mindedly the truths of others. This is at the very heart of liberalism. Liberals understand, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed, that "time has upset many fighting faiths." Liberals are skeptical of censorship and celebrate free and open debate.
2. Liberals believe individuals should be tolerant and respectful of difference. It is liberals who have supported and continue to support the civil rights movement, affirmative action, the Equal Rights Amendment and the rights of gays and lesbians. (Note that a conflict between propositions 1 and 2 leads to divisions among liberals on issues like pornography and hate speech.)
3. Liberals believe individuals have a right and a responsibility to participate in public debate. It is liberals who have championed and continue to champion expansion of the franchise; the elimination of obstacles to voting; "one person, one vote;" limits on partisan gerrymandering; campaign-finance reform; and a more vibrant freedom of speech. They believe, with Justice Louis Brandeis, that "the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people."
4. Liberals believe "we the people" are the governors and not the subjects of government, and that government must treat each person with that in mind. It is liberals who have defended and continue to defend the freedom of the press to investigate and challenge the government, the protection of individual privacy from overbearing government monitoring, and the right of individuals to reproductive freedom. (Note that libertarians, often thought of as "conservatives," share this value with liberals.)
5. Liberals believe government must respect and affirmatively safeguard the liberty, equality and dignity of each individual. It is liberals who have championed and continue to champion the rights of racial, religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, persons accused of crime and the outcasts of society. It is liberals who have insisted on the right to counsel, a broad application of the right to due process of law and the principle of equal protection for all people.
6. Liberals believe government has a fundamental responsibility to help those who are less fortunate. It is liberals who have supported and continue to support government programs to improve health care, education, social security, job training and welfare for the neediest members of society. It is liberals who maintain that a national community is like a family and that government exists in part to "promote the general welfare."
7. Liberals believe government should never act on the basis of sectarian faith. It is liberals who have opposed and continue to oppose school prayer and the teaching of creationism in public schools and who support government funding for stem-cell research, the rights of gays and lesbians and the freedom of choice for women.
8. Liberals believe courts have a special responsibility to protect individual liberties. It is principally liberal judges and justices who have preserved and continue to preserve freedom of expression, individual privacy, freedom of religion and due process of law. (Conservative judges and justices more often wield judicial authority to protect property rights and the interests of corporations, commercial advertisers and the wealthy.)
9. Liberals believe government must protect the safety and security of the people, for without such protection liberalism is impossible. This, of course, is less a tenet of liberalism than a reply to those who attack liberalism. The accusation that liberals are unwilling to protect the nation from internal and external dangers is false. Because liberals respect competing values, such as procedural fairness and individual dignity, they weigh more carefully particular exercises of government power (such as the use of secret evidence, hearsay and torture), but they are no less willing to use government authority in other forms (such as expanded police forces and international diplomacy) to protect the nation and its citizens.
10. Liberals believe government must protect the safety and security of the people, without unnecessarily sacrificing constitutional values. It is liberals who have demanded and continue to demand legal protections to avoid the conviction of innocent people in the criminal justice system, reasonable restraints on government surveillance of American citizens, and fair procedures to ensure that alleged enemy combatants are in fact enemy combatants. Liberals adhere to the view expressed by Brandeis some 80 years ago: "Those who won our independence ... did not exalt order at the cost of liberty."
Consider this an invitation. Are these propositions meaningful? Are they helpful? Are they simply wrong? As a liberal, how would you change them or modify the list? As a conservative, how would you draft a similar list for conservatives?
Because their foreign and domestic policies are such monumental failures, a similar list for conservatives would be harder to come by in the era of Bush-Rove-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rice. Not to mention Foley-Hastert-Santorum-Frist.
To generate their own list, conservatives could recite Stone's list above, and simply append each proposition with a cheeky Wayne's-World "NOT!"
Meanwhile, the other "Mission Accomplished" guy has of course achieved his personal mission. Like Foley, Bush has gotten his rocks off over his own fetish: removing Saddam Hussein from power. And once again we see that what the GOP politician says his mission is, and what his mission actually is, are two very different things. He says he wants to spread freedom and democracy and fight terrorism, but what he really wants is to act out a family vendetta and show up his wimp daddy.
These two men — Foley and Bush — are cut from the same cloth. And today, this very day on which we learn of North Korea's entry into the Nuclear Club, represents the complete melding of Foley-Bush as emblematic of modern Republicans. They pretend to protect our children, or our nation, and simply refuse to do it. They pretend to be Christian. They pretend to have compassion. They pretend to strategize about wars and economies and disaster preparedness.
The GOP is the party of saying one thing, and doing its opposite. That's why Foley is still relevant: he is the patron saint, the living symbol, of the complete and utter failure of the Republican Party.
Lawyers for deceased former Enron Chairman Ken Lay want a judge to rule right away on whether to clear his name.
They say in court papers filed this week that U.S. District Judge Sim Lake should rule on the nearly two-month-old request because an effort by prosecutors to change federal law to preserve Lay's conviction bore no fruit before Congress adjourned.
Lay's lawyers had asked Lake to wipe Lay's record clean and dismiss the 2004 indictment against him because he died before he had been sentenced or launched an appeal. Lay was convicted May 25 of 10 counts of fraud, conspiracy and lying to banks in two separate cases.
A 2004 ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a defendant's death pending appeal erases an entire case because the defendant can't challenge the conviction.
If Lake approves the request, the government would no longer be able to seize, through the criminal case, alleged ill-gotten cash and property because a conviction on which to base forfeiture no longer exists. Prosecutors would have to chase Lay's estate in civil courts, along with other litigants.
Lay died July 5 of heart disease.
Yeah, right.
This whole thing stinks of Lay's evil stepchildren who are trying to glom onto whatever cash remains of the millions Stepdad deceived out of his employees and shareholders. And they need to do it before the Big Bad Government (that Stepdad helped install) experiences regime change.
If you haven't guessed, the predominant theory in Skimbleland is that he didn't die of "heart disease" but that Lay committed suicide.
And why should Lay's exoneration get on a fast track when justice has been anything but swift. Even if Lay were alive to be sentenced, the whole mess is taking place more than five years after the fact — a period in which inside trader Martha Stewart (a Democrat) had already been tried, sentenced and served out her term in full.
Fast track for imprisonment of living Democrats. Fast track for exoneration of dead Republicans.
Foley must have been the life of Republican parties — turning his imitation of Clinton's line into an ironic bit of humor.
Because the open secret within the GOP was that Foley didn't even have any interest in sexual relations with women. Or even with men.
Only boys.
This is what happens when your political party offers not a big tent, but a gigantic Log Cabin outfitted with a special closet expressly for known cyber-predators.
A defiant House Speaker Dennis Hastert fought Wednesday to hold on to his leadership post while fractures appeared among his lieutenants and a former senior aide to Mark Foley said he repeatedly had warned Hastert's top aide about Foley's inappropriate behavior toward underage pages more than two years ago.
In an interview with the Tribune on Wednesday night, Hastert said he had no thoughts of resigning and he blamed ABC News and Democratic operatives for the mushrooming scandal that threatens his tenure as speaker and Republicans' hold on power in the House. [...]
When asked about a groundswell of discontent among the GOP's conservative base over his handling of the issue, Hastert said in the phone interview: "I think the base has to realize after a while, who knew about it? Who knew what, when? When the base finds out who's feeding this monster, they're not going to be happy. The people who want to see this thing blow up are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by [liberal activist] George Soros."
He went on to suggest that operatives aligned with former President Bill Clinton knew about the allegations and were perhaps behind the disclosures in the closing weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm elections, but he offered no hard proof.
"All I know is what I hear and what I see," the speaker said. "I saw Bill Clinton's adviser, Richard Morris, was saying these guys knew about this all along. If somebody had this info, when they had it, we could have dealt with it then."
Hastert said he had spoken with former President George H.W. Bush, whom he described as "very supportive." He also said he had not spoken to President Bush.
Responsibility and accountability are fucking bitches, aren't they, Denny?
Who's the first person you call? Who's the person you trust the most to help you out of your difficulties? Your attorney? Your psychiatrist? Your clergyman?
Because it's Baugh who can help you figure out a way to reduce the political damage from behavior like this:
Things have been looking up for accused child molester Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, the 36-year-old Christian conservative activist and lawyer with close ties to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Scott Baugh, head of the Orange County Republican Party. Police say Nielsen took a 14-year-old Westminster boy as his sex partner in 2003 and maintained a huge cache of man-boy pornography.
But prosecutors have allowed their case against Nielsen, once an intern in the district attorney’s office, to stall for 40 months.
Ironically, those delays have provoked new sex-crime allegations. Saying he fears a subversion of justice, a northern Virginia man claims that Nielsen repeatedly molested him when he was an adolescent.
“For two years, when I was 13 and 14 years old, Jeff sexually abused me while he worked in Washington for Rohrabacher as a legislative aide,” the 25-year-old married man told the Weekly in a recent interview. “There was never any penetration, but other than that? Everything. He wrapped it all up as normal, as love.”
Paul S. Meyer, Nielsen’s Costa Mesa-based defense attorney, did not respond to requests for comment.
The Virginia man, who asked to remain anonymous, said Nielsen worked in his church’s youth ministry and that his parents rented Nielsen a basement room in their home sometime in 1994 or 1995.
“Jeff took an immediate liking to me,” he said. “When he moved into our house, [the sex] started right away. I know this might sound weird, but at the time he was a mentor and he assured me the messing around was normal. I believed him. I was in the seventh grade at the time. It was brainwashing.”
He says Nielsen orchestrated a “boyfriend-girlfriend type” relationship that included occasional public kissing, hand holding and sex.
“Jeff called it ‘our thing,’ and one time we were near Tyson’s Corner [Virginia], he stopped at a gas station so we could have sex in the bathroom,” the man said. “A guy walked in and caught me with my pants down and Jeff on his knees. We made some excuse about an injured knee or something. The guy said, ‘Oh!’ and quickly left.”
Another day, another Republican on his knees in front of a boy. This time it's not about the lies — it is about the blowjobs.
The Republican Party: Torturing the innocent, taxing the poor, and fellating the teens.
In going to a rehabilitation facility, Foley offered his first comments to date in a statement through his lawyer. The location of the facility is undisclosed, but the statement by fax came from a Clearwater phone number. He is expected to remain there at least 30 days.
I wonder how they picked the duration of his treatment to last "at least 30 days." Let's see, Election Day is 35 days from today...
No more late-night sessions for Foley:
Foley was a particularly friendly House member to young pages, remembering their names and talking to them during lulls in late-night sessions. [...]
In one speech, he referred to taking one of the young men, who was the highest bidder in "lunch with Mark Foley," to Morton's Steakhouse in his BMW.
Meanwhile, [to prevent homosexuality] the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.
The problem with this formulation is that in the Bush family it is the codpieced son who is doing his damnedest to demonstrate that, of father and son, he has the bigger penis. Or is the bigger penis, something like that.
WASHINGTON -- For more than a week, members of Congress said they would avoid partisan politics when they got Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton. But when they finally saw it Friday, they split along party lines.
Republicans were aghast at Clinton's behavior, with many saying it showed he had lied and abused his power.
"It's vile," said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. "It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.
That's what it is! More sad than anything else! Sad! So sad!
U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, one of Washington's leading advocates for missing and exploited kids, doesn't like the idea of a clothes-free camp for teenagers. [...]
The New York Times article noted that the kids were subjected to the unwanted gaze of a 40-something visitor to Lake Como peeping from a sauna window.
Lake Como resident Elf Andersen dubbed the man a "COG," which she said stands for "creepy old guy." This particular COG, like all others, was ejected from the 200-acre resort.
"The kids can spot when somebody is not pure of heart," said Andersen, who stressed that campers are protected by adult counselors and sleep in tents isolated from regular resort patrons.
Foley, a fifth term congressman, denies that he's raising the nude camping issue to bolster his chances for the Republican nomination for Senate.
As co-chairman of the House's Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, he lobbied for the AMBER network, a way to broadcast missing children's cases across the country.
He most recently tackled child erotica on the Internet. He said he was shocked by the newspaper article about the naked camps that have been going on in his home state since 1993.
Foley suggested the camps force kids to fixate on nudity during their impressionable, formative years. Normal teen sexual urges can become inflamed by the nakedness around them, he said.
"It's putting matches a little too close to gasoline," he said.
"The kids can spot when somebody is not pure of heart." This is where kids differ from Hastert.
