NY-26: Did Reynolds Authorize Aide To Ask ABC To Kill Story?
As Election Central reported below, it's now been confirmed that Kirk Fordham, the chief of staff to NRCC chief Tom Reynolds, offered an exclusive on Mark Foley's decision to resign to ABC News's Brian Ross if Ross agreed not to run his story about the salacious Foley emails. Ross declined. I've now emailed two questions to Reynolds communications director L.D. Platt. (1) Did Reynolds know that Fordham was doing this? (2) Did Reynolds authorize it? Either Reynolds knew his chief of staff was trying to prevent the public from knowing that a GOP Congressman was soliciting teens, or he didn't. Either Reynolds authorized it, or he didn't. Will Reynolds answer?
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O what a web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
October 3, 2006 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is no way a staffer would do that without checking with the boss. Unless the media are so customarily in the Republican's pocket that everyone assumes that the media would never, ever report such an attempt. I am very down on media homnesty, but even I don't believe that the media are that 'bought' on a universal basis.
global citizen
October 3, 2006 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can You Spell "C_O_V_E_R_-U_P_" Boys and Girls?
October 3, 2006 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's better than that - Reynolds runs the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the congressional body in charge of helping House republicans get re-elected.
Want to guess what GOP organization is refusing to hand back the money that Foley has given them?
the NRCC - $100,000 this year, $500,000 since 1996.
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=160555
And you wondered why GOP leadership was protecting Foley? He was a good earner.
October 3, 2006 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink