S.C. native proud of releasing Foley e-mails

S.C. native proud of releasing Foley e-mails
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON - A South Carolina native says his goal in releasing the
e-mails that eventually ensnared the Republican Party in an election
year scandal was simply to expose the excesses of one Florida
congressman.

"I absolutely think I did the right thing in making it public," Lane
Hudson told The (Charleston) Post and Courier.

"It doesn't matter if it's Republican or Democrat, gay or straight,
it's inappropriate behavior."

Hudson, a 29-year-old gay Democratic activist who went to high school
in Myrtle Beach, said having the Democrats take control of both houses
of Congress also is a reward.

Hudson said he knew firsthand of Foley's inappropriate behavior because
the congressman hit on him 11 years ago in a Washington, D.C., bar.

Foley quit Congress after sexually explicit computer messages he had
sent to teenage pages were revealed.

Hudson, who triggered the story in September when he posted some of
those e-mails on the Internet, won't say how he got the e-mails but
that they weren't hard to get.

The revelations cost Hudson his job.

He was fired from the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign after
bloggers traced his e-mail postings to his use of the group's equipment.