MySpace and Mark Foley

I hate MySpace

It really is a cluster. All the ads give me a headache and the backgrounds and music from each personalized page makes me want to vomit. Yeah, I know that’s part of the appeal, but I much prefer the sleek, clean design of Facebook. Despite hating it so much, I’m back on it because it’s the easiest way for me to keep in contact with all my high school buddies.

I used to have a MySpace account back in the day. Actually, Elizabeth and I had a joint MySpace account and yes…all of our friends did make fun of us. It’s actually because we had a joint account that I had to ditch MySpace for a while. It’s a pretty funny story.

In 2006 Elizabeth went to RNC Finance College in Minneapolis where she was teamed up with other students for a five day competition. When she came back to Columbia, Elizabeth did what most of us do – she friended all those new folks she just met.

A few months later we moved to Michigan to help run Mike Bouchard’s campaign for US Senate. One day, out of the blue, we both started receiving emails from Time, Washington Post, and CNN about our “ties” to the Mark Foley scandal. As I said, I was helping run a US Senate race so having ties to the Mark Foley scandal wasn’t the best thing in the world for me.

It turns out that one of Elizabeth’s RNC teammates was the guy who lured Mark Foley by pretending to be a gay 16-year-old boy. Elizabeth had just posted some comment on his page like “nice meeting you at RNC Finance College.” Because we were one of the top comments on his page, all the news outlets started flooding our inboxes. I of course had no clue of what was happening when I got fifteen emails in a span of two hours, so I immediately deleted our MySpace account. It’s been down ever since…until a couple weeks ago.

Nothing ever came of the whole thing, but it’s a pretty interesting political story to tell.

Next story…coming back from the 2004 Horry County Convention and saving a homeless man laying half naked in the middle of the Interstate.

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