The Washington Post reports that openly gay Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe learned about Foley’s inappropriate instant messages to a page in 2000 and confronted him about it. A Kolbe staffer suggested the former page take the material to the clerk of the House, and Kolbe’s spokeswoman is still determining what other action if any was taken.
I thought the following was particularly interesting in light of the Republicans and the Religious Right going around blaming gays for being inevitable pedophiles and for covering up Foley’s tracks:
In interviews with The Post last week, multiple pages identified Kolbe as a close friend and personal confidante who was one of the only members of Congress to take any interest in them. A former page himself, Kolbe offered to mentor pages and kept in touch with some of them after they left the program, according to the interviews.
It’s incredibly ironic that one of these so-called “likely pedophiles” was one of the only people in Congress to actually give a damn about these pages and who was enough of a friend and confidante to let a page feel comfortable showing him the Foley IM exchange directly.
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