NRCC or NAMBLA: Did 100K Buy GOP Silence for Sex Predator

Craig Crawford, columnist for Congressional Quarterly, examines the timing of the NRCC's windfall from Republican pervert Mark Foley:

EvenRepublicans who are accustomed to big campaign donations called it an "unusually large" gift when ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) Rep. Thomas Reynoldsgave $100,000 in July to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the party's campaign arm.

That was not long after reports of Foley's "overly friendly" emails to a minor reached the committee's chairman, Thomas Reynolds (R-NY), who says it was brought to his attention "sometime in the spring."

The close timing begs the conclusion that there was a deal, considering that House GOP leaders decided not to pursue the Foley matter as they were cashing his unusually large check.

Or perhaps Foley, one of the party's top fundraisers, was just being overly friendly again.

The NRCC then funneled Foley's cash to out to Republican congressional candidates including Pete Roskam.

Will Pete surrender that dirty money or is he going to live down to our expectations and keep Foley's hush money?

UPDATE:

It's part of a pattern on Capitol Hill where member raise money not just for their own campaigns, but to give money to others, to their colleagues. So that's kind of a common practice in both parties. What was unusual here was how large this contribution was and when it was made. [Mark] Foley gave $100,000 to the campaign arm of the House Republicans, the National Republican Congressional Committee, at about the time when they were deciding to ignore these emails, this first round of emails they say. A couple of months after they knew about this, suddenly he gives this big donation. It raises the question, 'Did he buy their silence?'

Video of Crawford on MSNBC is here.