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To: TimF who wrote (428476)	10/20/2008 12:22:06 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1580619

Frankly, that's not quite the same as Mahoney. Mahoney was a GOPer his entire life until 4 years ago. "In an interesting irony, Mark Foley, the man Mahoney replaced had been a Democrat who turned Republican shortly before his own initial election to congress." en.wikipedia.org "In 1984, when Foley ran for county commission, despite proclaiming he was a committed Democrat and outspending his primary opponent, the party slapped him down and told him, "It's not your time," according to Rand Hoch, a Democratic Party activist. Months later, Foley switched opportunistically to the Republican Party" vanityfair.com