Talk:Mark Foley scandal/to do


 * Be vigilant against continued vandalism, POV-pushing, and unsourced or unreliable negative statements
 * More on media knowledge (in particular FNC, St. Petersburg Times, ABC, Miami Herald)
 * More of the politicization of the issue and its implications of the scandal for the midterms elections
 * More on evolving explanations of House leaders
 * What's happening to campaign funds Foley has raised?
 * Sourced comparisons to previous scandals (1983 Congressional page sex scandal, Mel Reynolds) -- (be sure to avoid original research)
 * Response from Gay Rights Groups, First Amendment Groups, Internet Freedom Groups -- (be sure to avoid original research)
 * Find more infomation on what senior congressional aide Kirk Fordham did and said.
 * Fix citations
 * Add more discussion of Republican responses, such as charge that Democrats withheld information, prank theory, and Rush Limbaugh's comments about "beasts egging him on". Possibly under columnists or Reaction/Republicans/.
 * Look to shorten article and remove redundant or tangential information, taking care to avoid POV effects of deletions
 * clarify the dates of the sexually explicit IMs, and reports of other sexually explicit communications that were made public later. The Washington Post article on 10-08 states that only they and ABC news were actually given the explicit IMs by a source, and that they involved just two pages.  1 is Jordan Edmunds, IMs from 2002 and 2003.  However there are many more than 2 reports of such emails and IMs, some going back to at least 1997.
 * Add/expand
 * Rep. Foley: “If I were one of these sickos, I’d be nervous with America’s Most Wanted on my trail.”
 * "The Bogus Blog Behind Foley's Fall"
 * Foley Interest in Pages Seen in Speeches: in speeches, Former Rep. Mark Foley showed personal interest in pages, whom he commended