Rhino
10-27-2006, 08:24 AM
Gay Rights Group Fires Blogger Who Exposed Foley E-Mails
Thursday, October 26, 2006
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group, has fired an employee who admitted to the first publication on a Web site of Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to a former male page.
The e-mails and later disclosures of sexually explicit computer messages from the Florida Republican to other male pages sparked a campaign-season scandal that threatens the GOP's majority in Congress.
"He inappropriately used Human Rights Campaign resources. He was fired," organization Vice President David Smith said of the employee. "The Human Rights Campaign believes in being very aboveboard in our political activity."
Smith refused to identify the employee by name, citing privacy concerns, but said he was a junior staff member who worked as a coordinator in Michigan.
The Web site in question first published on Sept. 24 Foley's e-mails to a former page from Louisiana. ABC News reported its own account of the e-mails on its Web site four days later........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,225759,00.html
Thursday, October 26, 2006
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group, has fired an employee who admitted to the first publication on a Web site of Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to a former male page.
The e-mails and later disclosures of sexually explicit computer messages from the Florida Republican to other male pages sparked a campaign-season scandal that threatens the GOP's majority in Congress.
"He inappropriately used Human Rights Campaign resources. He was fired," organization Vice President David Smith said of the employee. "The Human Rights Campaign believes in being very aboveboard in our political activity."
Smith refused to identify the employee by name, citing privacy concerns, but said he was a junior staff member who worked as a coordinator in Michigan.
The Web site in question first published on Sept. 24 Foley's e-mails to a former page from Louisiana. ABC News reported its own account of the e-mails on its Web site four days later........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,225759,00.html