ultimately tom reynolds' chief of staff was interviewed by the fbi. the fbi then was investigating whether mark foley had been shielded from investigation by his colleagues in congress. tom reynolds' chief of staff resigned although he said he did nothing wrong. heading right into the mid-term elections in 2006 that was why congressman tom reynolds, number four republican memberf of the house, had to put out this weird, vague and abrupt apology ad.rimbir trying without really explaining to dispense with the role that he and his office had come to playha in that very nasty, very ugly scandal, before voters went to the polls in november to decide whether or not he'd be sent back to congress. in the end voters in tom reynolds' district, they did re-elect him. he squeaked by which was notable because that was a really, really republican district. and he was an incumbent and in leadership and very well-known. it was a narrow victory for him given the size and the shape of that district. and that would be his last race for public office. after he did get re

it does come across his name is tom reynolds and he approves this message. >> i'm tom reynolds and i approve this message. this evening i was told about odd but not explicit e-mails from mark foalo. even though i have not seen the e-mails i reported what i'd been told. i've since been told newspapers had these e-mails for months and foley lied about them. later more e-mails were revealed. i'm disappointed i didn't catch his lies before. for that i'm sorry. >> and that's the end of the ad. it ends like that. for that i'm sorry, go to black. he's sorry for that. he's very sorry about that, but what exactly is he sorry about? his name is tom reynolds, republican congressman from new york first elected in the late '90s and that apology ad, one in a pan theon of political ads, it ran actually as a campaign ad, not just like a video he put on his website or something. it ran as an ad. in 2006 right before he was up for re-election in the mid-terms that year. and although you cannot tell in the text of the ad himself, what he was apologizing for was a role played by him and his office in th

that comes out, chris lee resigns, he resigned from the same seat that tom reynolds had retired from after he and his office got caught up with the mark foley sex predator scandal. they go from reynolds, to get chris lee, chris lee is only their short time then they get a special election to fill chris louise now vacancy. that was a safe republican district in new york, but after those couple of scandals and those couple of guys, voters in the district and that special election decided to change course. they decided they would choose a woman to represent that district, and they would choose a democratic woman to represent that district. the first democrat elected to that seat in like 40 years. her name was kathy hochul. the same kathy hochul who two weeks from today, will take the oath to become the first woman governor of the great state of new york. how kathy hochul got to this point in her career, turns out to be a path paved which is an astonishing number of men behaving astonishingly badly in power, getting caught, and thereby being forced out of office as they would've otherwise

it does come across his name is tom reynolds and he approves this message. >> i'm tom reynolds and i