Press Release from Congressional Candidate Brent Sanders
(This guy’s name has already been mentioned a few times here and on Cenla Antics. I received this press release this morning).
For Immediate Release October 8, 2006
Congressional Candidate Brent Sanders Responds to Page-Gate: “A Conspiracy of Silence.”
Earlier today, District Five Congressional Candidate Brent Sanders responded to the ongoing investigation of Congressman Mark Foley (R- FL) regarding his inappropriate contact and vulgar comments to young male Congressional pages. “Representative Foley abused his position of authority. These young boys went to Washington, D.C. to work for their role models and mentors. Instead, they were betrayed by the very people that write the laws to protect them.”
Sanders contends that Foley is not the only culpable party. “Silence is an accomplice to abuse,” he said. “Our laws mandate that certain individuals are required to report any suspicion of abuse or neglect. These laws include any person who provides training and supervision of a child.”
Sanders further stated, “Where is the accountability? These Congressmen had not only a moral obligation, but possibly a legal requirement to report these offenses. Instead of reporting to the proper authorities, who have trained investigators, their first action was political damage control. That is reprehensible.”
Although Sanders did not single out his opponent, Rodney Alexander, he believes it is still necessary to investigate the chain of communication that took place between Alexander’s office and other members of Congress, including Representative Tom Reynolds, head of the NRCC. “They both have questions to answer.”
Sanders stated that, if elected, he would not play politics to protect his party. “Honest government should uphold the laws of our land. Our campaign is about holding big government accountable for the decisions they make with our tax dollars. To serve the greater good, we must be able to look beyond party politics. I commit to serve based upon the needs of the 5th Congressional District rather than the needs of any political party. This is unfortunately exactly what we have to deal with for the last two years by the Incumbent.”
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CenLamar 
please.
Sanders further stated, “Where is the accountability?
What is Brent talking about? That line doesn’t make any sense. He’s clearly being held accountable for his actions. Hes on every T.V in the land catching hell…so what is the problem?
In fact every human being makes mistakes. Some in powerful positions, some are gay, some do drugs..some do drugs then quit, then start pointing fingers. I just love how this political game works. The real problem is to be addressed on an individual level. So basically all americans need to take a look at this behavior.
We have now had how many school shootings!?!?! Now we have perverted sexual predators in powerful positions. Lets GET REAL. I think there is a much much bigger problem at hand.
i have trouble with “every human makes mistakes”. when referring to sexual predators, the word “mistake” does not begin to cover the gravity of it.
I met him on election day. He was awfully odd. He also had no clue of the rules of propriety and legalities concerning voting.
It’s really strange how the democrats have trouble recalling the 1983 actions of one of their own congressmen who had SEXUAL RELATIONS with a 17 year old page and continued to serve FIVE MORE TERMS IN CONGRESS! I’m sick of the double standard bullshit!
First of all, Studds was censured, but the page in question was a major at the time. The distinction is important.
The Foley scandal is a different story. He preyed on young men by using e-mail and instant messaging technology.
Second point, 1983????
Twenty-three years ago???
Before the rise of the religious right, before Newt Gingrich and Bill Frist and the “moral majority,” before compassionate conservativism, before the Internet.
You know why people are making a big deal out of this story???
Because during the past twenty-three years, Republicans have positioned themselves to be the party of family values and morality. Foley himself spoke adamently about protecting children from predators on the Internet.
There’s no double-standard here; there’s just hypocrisy, double-talk, and secrecy.
There is no use DEFENDING this type of government.
And it’s pretty repulsive that someone would try to EXCUSE the actions of Foley and the subsequent hush-hush campaign waged by his colleagues by comparaing this story with the Studds scandal.
If we’re reaching back into the past, then what about this???
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double standard,
you get that, right? you are not trying to excuse Foley’s actions, right? please say you aren’t in that deep.
I’m not trying to excuse Foley’s behavior! I’m saying democrats are just as big in the hypocrisy department as anyone. They have NO room to talk AT ALL. I hate all hypocrites, democrats AND republicans but you act as though there are no bad democrats there at all. Hells fire, Rep Jefferson got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and he’s still in office. The point is, when dems do it nothing happens, when reps do it they leave office in MOST cases.
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Yeah, like that’s much different from what Bubba was doing with the White House during his regime.
concerning the foley-rodney alexander-denny hastert-republican online child grooming cyber-sex scandal: and how congressman studds comes into play: unlike our fellow americans in massachusetts who kept voting congressman studds back in to office – we louisianaians can, should and must do the right thing and turn turncoat rodney out of the congress. so lets not make the same mistake the massachusetts voters made.
To Double standard anyone?
Who is the congressman who was having sex with a 17 year old who served 5 more terms?
Lamar this is a boring thread. Please post a new one that encourages conversation about any of the races on Nov. 7. There are also more amendments.
“Gerry Eastman Studds (born May 12, 1937) is a retired American politician, born in Mineola, New York. He served as a Democratic Congressman for Massachusetts from 1973 until 1997. He was the first openly homosexual member of the US Congress and, more generally, the first openly gay national politician in the US. In 1983, he admitted to having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male page in 1973 and was censured by the House of Representatives.”
Foley is now gone, which is exactly what should have happened. What I find repulsive is that Studds being a democrat was not thrown out as Foley would have been had he not resigned. Also, let the investigation determine which democrats ALSO KNEW about this long before it actually came out by the complicit ABC news which felt they should break it on the news rather than notifying authorities. Both parties have criminals in their ranks, but it seems that democrats will overlook it. Case in point, Bubba Clinton LIED TO THE GRAND JURY. Democrats fell over themselves to make excuses for him!!!
we saw that? Why can you not wait to find out the results of the investigation before you pronounce someone guilty? Apparently Rodney’s page didn’t want publicity nor did his parents. While you’re at it, let’s indict the ABC news network for sitting on this information just so they could run the story instead of bringing it to the authorities.
Think about it..”young call boys”. Whats up with that? yeah..Going to Washington tho realize their dreams. GIVE ME A BREAK. Also, the more people stoop their heads into this political sexual crap, the more intersting things get. Take for example the Bohemian Grove where most of our political leaders nmeet once a year for some sort of weird (men only) retreat. Now talk to meh!!