I’m pretty speechless, but don’t have much to say other than what you are about to read.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page.

“I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent,” he said in a statement issued by his office.

His departure sent Republicans scrambling for a replacement candidate less than six weeks before midterm elections in which Democrats are making a strong bid to gain control of the House. 

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/house-gop-leadership-knew-about-foley.html http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010054.php http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_go_co/congressman_e_mails