"On another legal front, Rep. Alexander said he has asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate whether Scott knew of questionable e-mails sent by a page hired [the page was sponsored not hired] by Alexander to former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla.
"I want to see if all this is connected," he said.
Hoare [Scott's Attorney - see post below] said Scott now has another job in the
private sector. She has a master's in business administration [which she evidently received on-line while working for Congressman Alexander], he said,
adding that she would not be available for comment on the case. Rep. Alexander said Scott is from Alabama, the only member of his staff not from Louisiana." See The Town Talk.
See Also StopOctoberSurprises.com for the story on Human Rights Campaign's involvement in the Page Email Scandal - referred to in this blog as Foleybate. GTL, the blogger, has released information that the person(s) who set up StopSexPredators, which was instrumental in breaking Foleybate, was a "Democratic Operative(s)" working for HRC. The HRC claims that they have fired the person and that the person was only recently hired. Hopefully GTL will keep pushing buttons to see which doors open.
From memory the time line on this is as follows - it looks like the emails to the Page were brought to the attention of Congressman Alexander by a reporter in November, 2005. Thus, since they reference Hurricane Katrina they would have had to have been written by Foley between August 29 and November, 2005. Scott joined the Congressman's office after Hurricane Katrina (August, 2005) forced her to move from New Orleans. The emails also had to have been provided to the reporter during the same time. She filed her lawsuit in September, 2006 after the Foley Scandal had broken. If she wanted to keep the matter out of the public she could have asked for an Adminstrative Hearing and the privacy of the matter would have been maintained. Instead she has gone public and blatanly used the exposure of Foleybate to promote her lawsuit.
The roux for this Louisiana Gumbo is getting dark and it's starting to thicken.
Update: a good Synopsis of the time line can be found at JustOneMinute
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