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The guy who posted the emails from Mark Foley to a high school student which led to Foley’s resignation from Congress and was just one in a string of Republican mess ups leading up to this week’s election is the subject of a story in the LA Times today. Lane Hudson kept his identity hidden on the blog, but ended up losing his job when someone figured out who he was and his employer found out that he was using his work computer to post to his blog. He doesn’t reveal how he got the Foley emails, but he does say that the FBI, LA Times and a number of politicians had them before he did and no one did anything about it. He posted them online, got linked to by Wonkette, and things snowballed from there. Another example of the individual routing around bigger media.

Just after 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, Hudson put up the Foley e-mails.

“This is absolutely amazing … ,” he wrote that morning. “There must be even more out there. E-mail me … and let me know what we should do!!!!”

By that Wednesday, Wonkette, a popular Washington gossip site, had linked to Hudson’s blog. On Thursday, ABC News posted an article on its website.

And Friday, after the network confronted Foley with a series of sexually explicit instant messages between the lawmaker and a different former page, Foley resigned.

“Wow!” Hudson titled a posting that night. In it, he said: “This is a good start…. Maybe we can keep stopping them!!!!!”

The guy who posted the emails from Mark Foley to a high school student which led to Foley’s resignation from Congress and was just one in a string of Republican mess ups leading up to this week’s election is the subject of a story in the LA Times today. Lane Hudson kept his identity hidden on the blog, but ended up losing his job when someone figured out who he was and his employer found out that he was using his work computer to post to his blog. He doesn’t reveal how he got the Foley emails, but he does say that the FBI, LA Times and a number of politicians had them before he did and no one did anything about it. He posted them online, got linked to by Wonkette, and things snowballed from there. Another example of the individual routing around bigger media.

Just after 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, Hudson put up the Foley e-mails.

“This is absolutely amazing … ,” he wrote that morning. “There must be even more out there. E-mail me … and let me know what we should do!!!!”

By that Wednesday, Wonkette, a popular Washington gossip site, had linked to Hudson’s blog. On Thursday, ABC News posted an article on its website.

And Friday, after the network confronted Foley with a series of sexually explicit instant messages between the lawmaker and a different former page, Foley resigned.

“Wow!” Hudson titled a posting that night. In it, he said: “This is a good start…. Maybe we can keep stopping them!!!!!”