{"id":368,"date":"2006-10-02T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/368"},"modified":"2006-10-02T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:35:58","slug":"the-open-sewer-that-wants-to-remake-america-in-its-image%e2%80%a6continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/368","title":{"rendered":"The Open Sewer That Wants To Remake America In Its Image\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6(Continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that at least some of the page boys were warned to keep a good safe distance from Foley.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/10\/gop_staff_warne.html\">That is&#8230;only the republican page boys&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>GOP Staff Warned Pages About Foley in 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Republican staff member warned congressional pages five years ago to watch out for Congressman Mark Foley, according to a former page.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Loraditch, a page in the 2001-2002 class, told ABC News he and other pages were warned about Foley by a supervisor in the House Clerk&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Loraditch, the president of the Page Alumni Association, said the pages were told &quot;don&#8217;t get too wrapped up in him being too nice to you and all that kind of stuff.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pages report to either Republican or Democratic supervisors, depending on the political party of the member of Congress who nominate them for the page program.<\/p>\n<p>Several Democratic pages tell ABC News they received no such warnings about Foley.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well isn&#8217;t that&#8230;unsurprising&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that at least some of the page boys were warned to keep a good safe distance from Foley.&nbsp; That is&#8230;only the republican page boys&#8230; GOP Staff Warned Pages About Foley in 2001 A Republican staff member warned congressional pages five years ago to watch out for Congressman Mark Foley, according to a former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,6],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}