Up, Up and Away. Wilson-Foley Has Evacuation Plan.

Don’t count on Republican congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley to stick around in a crisis.  The Fifth District hopeful probably wasn’t thinking about a career in politics when she spoke to the late, irrepressible Pat Seremet of the Hartford Courant two weeks after the September 11th terror attacks.

Seremet, whose breezy manner concealed a sharp ear for the telling disclosure, interviewed Wilson-Foley and her husband, nursing home mogul Brian Foley, at a St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center event on Saturday, September 22, 2001.  Seremet reported:

  So what about attending a gala in tuxes and gowns at such a time? It seemed
OK for this crowd. Those attending are committed to the hospital and at the
same time were horrified by the terroism.
“We were sick, literally,” said Lisa Wilson-Foley of Avon, who is the
head of the Blue Fox Run Golf Course there.
“I’ve never seen you so depressed,” said her husband, Brian Foley, who
owns a group of nursing homes as part of Apple Health Care. Together, the
couple also own World Team Tennis.
The Foleys, who have seven children, have made their own private plan for evacuating their family on their private plane should such a disaster demand it.

Keeping the fuel tank of your plane full is not among the 30 tips the Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Preparedness provides here, but some of them are helpful if you can’t take to the skies to flee home.