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Should Mayor Peyton Resign over Foleygate? Print E-mail
Thursday, 05 October 2006
Across the city there is an immediate call going out for Mayor Peyton's resignation if he knew anything about Congressman Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messaging with teenage boys and subsequently failed to act.
"Did the Mayor know he was a predator?", Sean Thompson from the southside area asks.  "Do we have reason to believe Peyton knew about it and didn't act?  If either one is true, he should resign immediately."

Rebecca Gentry from Arlington said, "anyone who was aware of these instant messages needs to step down and that includes the mayor."

The comments come as Republicans are reeling from the Mark Foley scandal.  Up to this point, it was thought that being a Republican was a beneficial title for Peyton.  Now it means he may have known about the "dirty Congressman's" instant messages and may be implicated as such.

Could Mayor Peyton be another victim in the Mark Foley Republican scandal?  Stay tuned.
 
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>> 3 Comments
Lysander
October 5, 2006, 2:07 pm
I can't tell if you are "tounge in cheek" or serious

Certainly the Mayor should NOT resign over Foley. Should a Democratic Mayor have resigned over Clinton? What Foley did, he did not do as a Republican. There is no reason that our Mayor or Governor or whatever should have been aware of those messages. This must be just a joke.
Turque
October 5, 2006, 3:22 pm
Of course...

yes it is a joke!  i think it is commentary on the political craziness associated with the foley situation.
ennis cashby
October 6, 2006, 9:38 am


Mayor Peyton sent me an explicit IM.
He said something about having a redevelopment plan for my behind...?
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