patterson scandals. she s elected thanks to an assist from congressman mark foley sending sexually explicit solicitations. and the other family values conservative congress who posts the sad cheesecake chest hair photos of himself, thanks to him she gets to congress. that frees her up to go to albany as the running mate for the guy who succeeds the prostitution scandal governor and the domestic violence was it witness interference scandal governor which leads to a special elections contest. the results of which is that kathy hochul covered in other peoples slime but none of her own eventually becomes lieutenant governor of the great state of new york. ta-da. but how does kathy hochul become
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his name is tom reynolds, republican congressman from new york first elected in the late 90s and that apology ad, one in the pantheon of apology political ads, it ran, actually, as a campaign ad. not just like a video he put on his website or something. it ran as an ad. in 2006 right before he was up n for re-election in the mid-terms that year. and although you cannot tell in the text of the ad himself, what he was apologizing for was a po role played by him and his office in one of the grossest congressional scandals in recent history. he mentioned this guy foley. mark foley. in 2006 mark foley resigned from congress in disgrace after it ng was revealed he d sent very explicit messages and horribly inappropriate emails to teenage
that race actually led us on this show to set up a whole set of rules internally we still use how to handle the reporting and broadcasting of stuff that is news worthy and so wildly, wildly offensive it cannot be described at a staff news meeting without all of us getting referred to hr.e wi and it can t be accessed on work computers without them getting seized by the company. so that s how that s who andrew cuomo beat to become governor of new york after the eliot spitzer and david patterson scandals. that s how kathy hochul ending upen becoming the congresswomanf new york. she s elected thanks to an assist from congressman mark foley sending sexually explicit solicitations. and the other family values conservative congress who posts the sad cheesecake chest hair photos of himself, thanks to hio she gets her term in congress. then she loses her seat to the guy who loses 11 felonies.
hill who were serving on capitol hill as congressional pages. these young assistants who work at the u.s. capitol. that story first broke the mark foley story first broke to the public in 2006 right before the mid-term elections.g ry but the fact congressman foley had been sending inappropriate a emails to teenage boys, the public didn t know that, but it had been known on capitol hill for aen long while at that poin including by his colleague congressman tom reynolds of new york. congressman tom reynolds was not just a new york congressman. he was in leadership. he was the fourth most powerful republican in the house. it turns out one of the pages, the teenage boys who was gettine these wrong e-mails from congressman foley, he went them to a member of congress who sponsored him to become a page, that member of congress went to republican leadership to tell him about it so something could be done. reynolds and his office