Marsha Blackburn and Mark Foley

This is a picture from the Grammy's a couple years ago, when Foley and Blackburn went together. (Foley is next to guy in the front row with the beard in the middle. Blackburn is too the right.) This picture is from Yahoo news.

Let’s see how close Marsha Blackburn and Mark Foley are.

In February 2006, when Roy Blount and John Boehner were battling to become majority leader, Marsha Blackburn sided with Roy Blount. That would seem natural since she wass and continues to be assistant majority whip. She would have had a big part in pulling republicans into the Blount camp. On February 2, 2006, Blount got 101 votes including Mark Foley’s. So both Blackburn and Foley were in the same faction in the Republican party. ( http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/011106/tally.html )

Now let’s move on to Blackburn’s own website. http://www.votemarsha.com/?sectionid=15&parentid=13§iontree=9,13,15&itemid=63
Here’s an article about Blackburn opposing the income tax. Take a look at one of the five congressmen she was working in a coalition with. So the Blackburn and Foley staffs were fairly close.

Efforts of tax warrior Marsha Blackburn just beginning to pay off
06/06/04
From: The Tennessean
By: Tim Chavez
Meet Tennessee's shadow governor.
As a state senator, Marsha Blackburn made it politically impossible to enact a state income tax by sounding the alarm at the state Capitol. Phil Bredesen then had to run against a state income tax for his first term just to get elected.
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In the House, Blackburn is working in a coalition of five representatives: herself, Mark Foley and Tom Feeney of Florida, Jennifer Dunn of Washington state and Brady of Texas.
Blackburn made the following statement about her efforts:
''We truly are a step closer to taking away an argument used by those who seek to impose an income tax and raise taxes. This is about letting states choose their tax structure, and it's about creating an environment where serious tax code reform can actually happen, not just at the state level but also at the federal level.


Another link between Blackburn possibly having knowledge of Foley’s indiscretions is that she is co-chair of the Republican National Congressional Committee with Tom Reynolds.

The question I keep asking myself this, Capital Hill is a small place. The republican congressional delegation is smaller, the republican faction that supported Blount even smaller. Blackburn and Foley were in a coalition against income tax and went to the Grammy’s together. So their staffs had to repeatedly work together. Marsha is the assistant majority whip, so she’s a member of the leadership. Hastert, Boehner, Blount, and Reynolds all knew of Foley’s sexual predatory nature months ago, but Blackburn is left out of the loop? Just too many people around her would have known or heard about Foley to not raise questions. To clear this up, Blackburn needs to have a press conference and publicly state she never knew about Foley’s antics. The voters of Blackburn’s district should know without a doubt she would have never let something like inappropriate contact between a 52 year old congressman and 16 year old congressional pages happen on her leadership watch.