ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Rep. Heather Wilson plans to donate to charity some $8,000 her campaign received from Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned from Congress last week after reports he sent sexually suggestive e-mails to a teenage boy who was a congressional page.
Enrique Carlos Knell, campaign spokesman for Wilson, said the New Mexico Republican will donate contributions received between 1998 and 2002 from political action committees founded by Foley, a Florida Republican.
Donations will go to All Faith's Receiving Home, the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Peer Education Project and First United Methodist Church, all in Albuquerque, Knell said.
Wilson wants a criminal investigation into Foley's actions, he said.
"She believes he should be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law," Knell said.
Wilson is seeking her fifth term this November against Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid.
Wilson's campaign has returned or donated more than $30,000 in campaign contributions in the past year, largely from people or political committees linked to disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff; former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who faces money laundering and conspiracy counts stemming from Republican fundraising in 2002; and Randall "Duke" Cunningham, a former California Republican congressman who resigned last November after admitting taking $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors.
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Information from: Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com
