Archive for October 19th, 2006
“It was not what you call intercourse. . . . There was no rape or anything. . . . Maybe light touches here or there,” said Mercieca.
The Priest explains the nature of his relationship with the young Mark Foley here.
“I was a little out of myself,” Mercieca said, from using tranquilizers as a result of what the Sarasota paper described as a nervous breakdown. “The whole idea is . . . that I did something that he did not like, but at the time he did not say anything.”
It is still unknown if this Priest, currently retired in Malta, is who Mark Foley claims is the Priest who sexually abused him. It is possible another Priest may have been involved.
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Bruce Jackson comments in the latest Artvoice about all the face time the politicians are enjoying as a result of the Buffalo snowstorm. The October Surprise is a godsend for them.
It was terrific for all of them, not just the troubled Reynolds. Byron Brown didn’t have to talk about how he sold the city out a few days earlier on the Seneca casino issue, Brian Higgins didn’t have to talk about why he is George Bush’s favorite Democrat war-lover and why he was one of the few Democrats to vote to weaken ordinary Constitutional safeguards and back out of the Geneva Conventions. Governor George Pataki didn’t have to talk about anything other than the weather and a state of emergency he hopes the federal government will pay for. For politicians on the way out or in embarrassing positions, it rarely gets any better than that.
