Thursday, October 26, 2006

Doing the Right Thing....

A gay rights group has fired one of its members who misused resources to leak the Mark Foley emails months ago, the NY Times reports.
A liberal gay rights group said Wednesday that one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation.

A spokesman for the group, the Human Rights Campaign, said it first learned of its employee’s role this week and immediately fired him for misusing the group’s resources.

Note, they did exactly what Boehner, Hastert, and others did. WHEN THEY FOUND OUT, the decisively fired the perpetrator. Why isn't the Times digging deeper with what did this campaign know, and when did they know it?

I think Hastert, et.al. and this Human Rights Campaign both did the right thing. When a transgression was veted out, they acted. Yet, only one group is taking heat. Now, why could that be?