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For Immediate Release: October 3, 2006
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Statement by U.S. Rep. C. W. Bill Young First,
on a personal level as a father and a grandfather, I find Mr. Foley’s
activities to be revolting, disgusting, and totally immoral.
As a member of the same Congress that he served in, I also find
it reprehensible that he violated the trust of these youth and of the
American people he was elected to serve. Second,
I want it to be clear that I had no knowledge of any of these
allegations until the afternoon of Third,
anyone who had any knowledge of this situation and did not report it to
a proper authority and worse yet attempted to cover it up should
definitely be held accountable for their actions. Fourth,
it is important to move forward to put in place whatever rules and
policies are required to prevent something like this from ever happening
again with respect to the page program. This
situation goes far beyond politics.
It is a moral issue that needs to be thoroughly investigated at
all levels and where necessary punitive action must be taken against
those whose action, or in some cases inaction, may have put the safety
of our pages at risk. |
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Congressman C.W. Bill Young |
