Thomas Foley: “I rise in outrage over a reported deal to pay the runaway bride, Jennifer Wilbanks, half a million dollars. Jennifer…”

“I rise in outrage over a reported deal to pay the runaway bride, Jennifer Wilbanks, half a million dollars. Jennifer Wilbanks, purported to have been kidnapped, blamed Hispanics, worried her parents, cost untold hundreds of thousands of dollars and the compassion of millions of Americans concerned for her well-being, all in a stunt, a stunt that is now going to earn her one- half million dollars. This is insane. It is outrageous. Police officers, firefighters, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts combing the country for this girl that we assumed was taken from her family and her fiance shows up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and then apologizes in a tearful manner that she misled people. And now we are going to pay her half a million dollars. This merely increases the likelihood that misguided and deranged young people will do stupid things in order to profit, and we fall prey to their pranks. I urge any media source thinking of paying her to reject the negotiations and treat her like the criminal she is. ____________________”