Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Boy Scouts Scrub Mark Foley from their Web Site

The Boy Scouts of America, Inc. perform a Congressional Survey so they can tout the number of legislators who have been active in the Scouting program at one time or another. This is the current fact sheet for the 109th Congress: http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-571.html

But if we take a look at Google’s cache for the same web site, we see a different story under the Florida delegation — namely there’s one name in the cache that is no longer on their web site:

Florida
  • Rep. Michael Bilirakis (R), S&L
  • Rep. Allen Boyd Jr. (D), S
  • Rep. Jim Davis (D), S
  • Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R), S
  • Rep. Mark Foley (R), S&L
  • Rep. John Mica (R), S
  • Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R), S&L
  • Rep. Cliff Stearns (R), S
  • Rep. David Weldon (R), S
  • Rep. Robert I. Wexler (D), S
  • Rep. C. W. Bill Young (R), S

(The “S&L” next to Foley’s name means that he was both a scout as a youth (S) and also served as an adult leader (L) in the Boy Scouts.)

So why would the Boy Scouts of America, Inc. be in such a rush to scrub his name from their web site? In fact, they were in such a rush, they didn’t even bother to update the totals at the top of the page.

UPDATE: Here are a couple of screen captures of the cached version:

www.House.gov also deleted his web page - on Friday, the day he resigned! Gone, but not yet forgotten.

LSB: Has every friend he has ever known abandoned him, have all of his good works been completely swept away, and could he be any more disgraced than he is? While I do NOT condone his behaviour (if he was, in fact, texting underage boys - seems there is a question now about whether he was texting boys in the program or after they had left the program, which might make them older but would still be as creepy as a professor texting a college student), but I am starting to feel a little bad for him. I guess it is watching all the coverage of the PA school shooting and all of those Amish folks forgiving the shooter... that 'hate the sin, not the sinner' crap... maybe it's taking a little ahold of me.

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