This is Shimkus all over again. A member of the Page Board, this time Kolbe, is informed of a problem with the pages, and he seemingly doesn't go to his fellow page board members. And to top it off, Kolbe made this rather sickening comment today in his public statement on the matter:
I believed then, and believe now, that this was the appropriate way to handle this incident given the information I had and the fact that the young man was no longer a Page and not subject to the jurisdiction of the program.Not subject to the jurisdiction of the program? That's sounds like a nice legalistic way of saying that you simply don't give a damn if a 50 year old man is preying on 16 year old children. Because you don't have jurisdiction? Are you kidding? Does Denny Hastert agree with this perverted logic?
Apparently Kolbe wasn't worried that Mr. Foley might try (or was already trying) the same shenanigans with CURRENT pages, nor was Kolbe apparently curious as to how Mr. Foley got to know the former Page he was currently harassing - was Foley using the current Page crop as a farm team of sorts? Kind of an obvious question, but one that apparently Kolbe wasn't very interested in pursuing - assuming he's telling the truth. Perhaps Foley harassment of the Page started while the kid was still a Page - wouldn't that be relevant to the overly legalistic Mr. Kolbe?
We'll never know any of these answers because Kolbe wiped his hands of the situation since the kid had left the Page program "some time ago." As if Foley's knowing the kid had nothing to do with the Page program whatsoever. This is disgusting.
