October 3, 2006
Representatives Foley, Hastert, and Shimkus
I'm just glad that Mark Foley wasn't a Boy Scout Leader. Everything else about the sordid situation is just bad. And I have to agree with Dick Durban, someone I disagree with on about everything else, and that is:
Durbin also said the House Page Board should be abolished. Durbin said there are no senators involved in overseeing the Senate page program, and instead it is run by nonpartisan staff."The Page Board in the House should go," Durbin said. "It is clearly too political."
I don't want my representatives running the page program - it detracts from their time they should be spending legislating, they aren't going to be as good at as professionals, and even if it isn't political in itself, clearly it can become so at a time like this.
Hastert and Shimkus can stay, but the page board has to go.
Full Disclosure: My nephew was an intern with Rep. Shimkus several years ago -- and yes, his respect for Shimkus does color my thinking on this one.
