Hastert Still Can’t Get His Foley Story Straight

Brian Zick

ABC News reports that House Republican Ginny Brown-Waite said she alerted GOP leadership, before the Foley story broke, about an incident wherein an apparently inebriated Foley had tried to gain access to the pages' dormitory, and that a number of pages had been made to feel uncomfortable by Foley. But in his press conference today, "Hastert told ABC News that he didn't know of any Foley incident other than those conducted via computer." via John at AMERICAblog

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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