Cong OH-5: Weirauch (D) Calls Hastert's Conduct Unacceptable

I called 5th Ohio Congressional District candidate Robin Weirauch (D-Napoleon) today and asked for her reaction to the scandal involving the Republican House leadership's inadequate response to the inappropriate emails from Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) to underage House pages. She sent me the following:

What disturbs me most is that Speaker Hastert apparently did nothing to protect the child in question and the other pages - which should have been his immediate concern.

This is another example of the Republican-led Congress putting the Party's best interest above the best interests of people. In this instance protecting the party took precedence over protecting a child. That is totally unacceptable. My opponent, Congressman Gillmor, has not spoken out about the House leadership's failure to protect a child In light of the Congressman's recent touting on the passage of sex offender database legislation (the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act), his silence on this whole matter is shocking and hypocritical. If the facts reveal that Speaker Hastert failed to act upon information that put the safety of one or more minors at risk, he should resign.

There are a lot of Republican incumbents who seem to think that they can just duck and cover until this all goes away, and Paul Gillmor (R-Old Fort) appears to be one.