Stop Sexual Predators Blogger Speaks

Lane Hudson, the blogger behind Stop Sexual Predators is interviewed by The Washington Blade. It appears that Hudon had a close encounter with Foley in 1995.

Hudson said his first inkling of Foley’s penchant for young men came through personal experience. Hudson said he met Foley in 1995 at a Washington bar during the time Hudson worked as a student intern at the White House during the Clinton administration. According to Hudson, Foley chatted with him and a few other White House interns at the bar, which Hudson declined to name, and asked for Hudson’s e-mail address. Hudson gave it and Foley soon began an e-mail exchange with him.

“It was nothing explicit, nothing very salacious,” Hudson said of Foley’s e-mails to him.

“I was young and naïve. I didn’t connect the dots,” he said, adding that he never took steps to report Foley’s e-mails as being inappropriate.

Hudson states that the conservative blog accusations about him staging an October surprise was "moot."

"The criticism is moot," said Hudson. "It only serves to distract from the real issue here. And the real issue is that there was a predator in Congress who, over the course of his 12 years of service, was continuously seeking out pages with unethical, immoral and inappropriate intentions. And now he’s not there."

The so-called October Surprise seemed to have little effect on Dennis Hastert and Tom Reynolds. Both were re-elected.

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