Republicans nationwide have been donating funds from Mark Foley to charity at a blazing speed, apparently seeing no upside to having contributions from a scandalous sexual predator. Go figure.<\/p>\n
But the National Republican Congressional Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), is up to his ears in this mess, continues to have one principle that stands above all else: greed.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the NRCC said<\/a> it hoped to get some or all of the $2.7 million Foley has left in his campaign account. Yesterday, the NRCC added that, unlike GOP candidates everywhere, it will keep the money Foley already contributed<\/a> to the committee.<\/p>\n Mark Foley may be an embarrassment to the Republicans, but they still like his money.<\/p>\n The National Republican Congressional Committee intends to spend the $100,000 the former Florida legislator gave this summer – before his sordid e-mail exchanges with male teenage congressional pages turned him into a grand old pariah.<\/p>\n “We’re going to do with it what we do with other donations – use it to help elect Republicans,” said NRCC spokesman Carl Forti.<\/p>\n Asked whether the committee would consider returning the money, Forti replied, “Nope.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m not sure the NRCC has thought this one through. But, the NRCC will say, the $100,000 went into a larger general fund, from which the committee is drawing. There’s no way to say GOP candidate X is getting money from Foley, because it’s all too indirect.<\/p>\n But, the Dems will say, that’s the beauty of the argument. So long as the NRCC is keeping money they know came from a disgraced sexual predator, all<\/i> of the NRCC’s money becomes suspect. Every<\/em> race the campaign committee invests in offers Dems an opportunity.<\/p>\n “Foley gave money to the NRCC, and now NRCC is giving money to candidate X. Contact candidate X today and tell him he shouldn’t be taking money from a disgraced sexual predator.”<\/p>\n Sure, it’s hardball, but if the shoe was on the other foot, would the NRCC hesitate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Republicans nationwide have been donating funds from Mark Foley to charity at a blazing speed, apparently seeing no upside to having contributions from a scandalous sexual predator. Go figure. But the National Republican Congressional Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), is up to his ears in this mess, continues to have one principle that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDems appear anxious to localize the Foley scandal as much as possible. It’s a challenge, but they’re going for it. If, however, the NRCC keeps Foley’s $100,000, and starts distributing it to key House races, it offers Dems a chance to talk about “Foley money” all the time.<\/p>\n