Blackburn, Is This Happening to You?
Today in the New York Times, there was an article about the fallout from Foleygate in a congressional race in Ohio. Here is the lead paragraph.
"COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 11 — Representative Deborah Pryce is a former municipal court judge, a Republican and a member of the House leadership who has represented her central Ohio district for 14 years. She is also friends with Mark Foley, the congressman who resigned in the page scandal, as she told Columbus Monthly for a feature it published just last month."
Now we are all aware that Marsha Blackburn is also the #4 republican in the House since she is assistant majority whip and is co-chair of NRCC with Tom Reynolds. Blackburn also worked with Foley on legislation, was in the same faction within the republican party, and went to the grammy's with him. Blackburn's connections are probably closure than Deborah Pryce's, so is Marsha getting the same treatment as the NYT describes here.
"In an interview on Wednesday, Ms. Kilroy questioned whether Ms. Pryce had had any warning about Mr. Foley’s conduct, and why Ms. Pryce, the No. 4 Republican in the House, had not called for the resignation of Representative J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois as speaker.
“When you have a member of Congress abusing his authority and his position with pages, and you have leaders of Congress looking the other way — protecting their majority instead of protecting the pages — people here saw that and said, that’s the final straw,” Ms. Kilroy said. “She’s in leadership. And I don’t understand why she is not calling on those leaders who didn’t act to step down.”
“What did she know?” Ms. Kilroy said, sitting in her campaign headquarters Wednesday during a break in preparation for a debate here Thursday night. “What did she do about it?”"
Ms. Kilroy, the Democratic candidate is even starting to run ads on conservative christain radio stations against Pryce. Here is some more in response to Republicans whining about the Democratic candidate being mean.
"Asked about Ms. Pryce’s claims, Ms. Kilroy said: “This is about a member of Congress abusing his position with pages, and it’s about how the Republican leadership engaged in a cover-up, and it’s about Deborah Pryce not speaking out against that. It’s not about anyone’s sexual orientation.”"
I hope the Morrison campaign and news media are making Blackburn answer these questions too.
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