For Immediate Release: Sept. 30, 2006 Contact: Heather Brewer,
505-310-5957
Wilson Refuses to Return Money from Disgraced Congressman Foley Wilson Has $6,000 in Dirty Money from Congressman Who Made
Inappropriate Advances to Underage Boy
Despite consistent statements about people being defined by the
company they keep, Rep. Heather Wilson on Saturday still had not
returned the $6,000 she has received from disgraced Florida
Republican Rep. Mark Foley who resigned this week after it was
revealed that he had made sexual advances toward a 16-year-old boy
working as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Heather Wilson said at the only public forum she’s attended with her
opponent Attorney General Patricia Madrid that ‘you can tell a lot
about a person by the company they keep,’” said Madrid spokeswoman
Heather Brewer. “As a result, voters should be able to tell a lot
about Rep. Wilson, the former head of New Mexico’s Child Youth and
Family Department, by the fact that she’s keeping company with a
disgraced member of Congress and using his dirty money to fund her
congressional campaign.”
Wilson has come under repeated fire for accepting contributions from
disgraced members of Congress and disgraced special interest lobbyists.
In fact, Wilson took $47,000 from indicted former Congressman Tom
DeLay; $6,000 from convicted former Congressman Bob Ney; $3,500 from
notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff; and $5,000 from former Congressman
Randall “Duke” Cunningham who is now in prison for accepting $2.4
million in bribes for giving out billions in contracts while he sat
on the House Intelligence Committee with Wilson.
“Heather Wilson is right,” Brewer said. “You can tell a lot about a
person by the company they keep. Rep. Wilson apparently keeps some
pretty bad company and New Mexicans can tell it’s time for a change.”
As Attorney General, Madrid has made it a priority to investigate,
prosecute and incarcerate pedophiles. Madrid started the Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force which has tracked down and put
pedophiles and online child sexual predators behind bars.
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