Sid Dinerstein.The GOP chairman of Palm Beach County, Fla.--part of Mark Foley's Foley’s was a chain of department stores owned by Federated Department Stores and headquartered in Houston, Texas. As of February 1, 2006, the division was dissolved and operation of the stores was assumed by Federated's Macy's West and Macy's South divisions. former congressional district--held fundraisers for the ex-House member, personally donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. to his campaigns, and considered him family. That all changed once "Foleygate" broke. Did you know Foley fo·ley n. 1. A technical process by which sounds are created or altered for use in a film, video, or other electronically produced work. 2. A person who creates or alters sounds using this process. is gay? I knew he was gay. My wife and I met his male friend at a steak house steak house or steak·house n. A restaurant that specializes in beefsteak dishes. a few years ago, and we liked him. He was in what we felt was a monogamous and committed relationship-one "friend" as opposed to a lot of "friends." Probably 90% of the public knows nothing about their elected officials other than what they read in the newspaper and see at campaign time. But the people involved in politics knew, and it wasn't a problem. Have you seen him since he resigned and went to rehab? No. The rumor RUMOR. A general public report of certain things, without any certainty as to their truth. 2. In general, rumor cannot be received in evidence, but when the question is whether such rumor existed, and not its truth or falsehood, then evidence of it may be given. is that he's out of state in a facility of some sort. They'll figure out what his problems are, what made it so that he--I don't know--wouldn't function or couldn't mature. Some of what he did seems a little bit teenagerish, like a boy experimenting. Will he be welcomed back? People here tend to respect others' privacy, but he most definitely would not be welcomed back. He's not going to wind up attending the charity balls that he loved so much. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if pariah is too strong a word, but I imagine he will have to move somewhere else. I think that on a stupid scale of one to 10, this was a 20. This was a man who had everything he wanted. Why he would put that at risk, I just can't figure out. He was one of our favorite political sons. Is there room in the GOP for gay officials? I personally don't like excluding people. I was fine if Mark had a boyfriend, It wasn't my business if it didn't affect his behavior and politics in a negative way. Listen, we heterosexuals are no ones to talk about inappropriate sexual behavior--that would be the height of hypocrisy Hypocrisy See also Pretension. Alceste judged most social behavior as hypocritical. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope] Ambrosio self-righteous abbot of the Capuchins at Madrid. [Br. Lit. . All of us deserve leaders who are better than ourselves. That's not a gay-straight discussion. That's a flat-out humanity discussion. |
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