Sue, is that your final answer?

We referenced Rep. Sue Kelly's blow-up at a editorial board debate in the district yesterday.

But look at this quote from Kelly in defending her tenure as chair of the Page Board between 1999 and 2001.

I was on the page board in 1999 and 2000. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that anything at all went on with the pages at that time. And as a matter of fact the evidence shows that mr. foley apparently began this in 2001 when I was no longer on the board.

Two points jump out at me here. One is that Kelly's claim seems demonstrably false, in as much as she's claiming that Mark Foley didn't get into the page biz until 2001. But I believe there are reported instances of pages being warned about Foley prior to 2001, getting chatted up by Foley prior to 2001 and possibly even having sex with Foley prior to 2001.

Did all of this really disappear during the two year window of Kelly's chairpersonship? It was known before. It was known after. Nothing ever came up during her time?

If you know of examples, let us know.