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To: combjelly who wrote (305366)	10/4/2006 9:54:50 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575523

cj, Everything they have done has only made it worse. Firing Fordham and attempting to make him the scapegoat was an incredibly stupid idea. I think they (the House leadership) can self destruct by somehow over-reacting, but it seems to me from reading a bit about it is that there is a case of poor personnel management here, rather than some conspiracy prior to the public disclosures. They may trip up on concocting some kind of conspiracy during damage control phase. As far as personal responsibility, I find it hard to believe that someone with scope of responsibilities of Hastert has something like this on his radar screen, but people reporting to him do. Someone is running the page program, and that person needs to have effective tools to deal with a rogue member, to have a way to escalate when there is a problem. The dumbest thing, IMO, would be cancelling the page program, as someone posted here as a possibility. It would be punishing something that may be a successful program to get youngsters involved instead of punishing the perpetrator of the inappropriate behavior (Foley). There may be 1 sicko in 100, and if someone needs to be insulated, it is not interns or pages, but the sickos. Joe