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Franks of Arizona, who asked staffers if they would bear his children as surrogates, - will resign
Washington Post ^ | 12-7-17 | By Mike DeBonis and Michelle Ye Hee Le

Posted on 12/07/2017 6:06:28 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182

Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican who is among the most conservative members of the House, said he would resign his seat after House officials learned that he had asked two female employees to bear his children as surrogates.

Franks’s announcement came as the House Ethics Committee said it would create a special subcommittee to investigate Franks for conduct “that constitutes sexual harassment and/or retaliation for opposing sexual harassment.”

His resignation, which Franks said is effective Jan. 31, will end the ethics investigation........

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; franks
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This is unusual.
1 posted on 12/07/2017 6:06:29 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, who asked staffers if they would bear his children as surrogates, says he will resign

Full Title above.

2 posted on 12/07/2017 6:07:12 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Makes zero sense.


3 posted on 12/07/2017 6:09:56 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This is the Cheap Labor Express striking back.

Franks was one of the few Arizona GOP not working for the Cheap Labor Express.


4 posted on 12/07/2017 6:12:42 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
The ONLY way for heterosexual men to KEEP THEIR JOBS is to:

A) Gender-segregate the workplace!, or

B) HIRE UGLY FEMALES ONLY. Here's an example:

Is this: a) DemonRat House Rep. Rosa Delauro, or b) A member of the Rolling Stones?

5 posted on 12/07/2017 6:14:39 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

He is probably about to be outed in the next wave of congressmen that had sexual harassment claims so he is copping to a lesser plea and getting out before the list goes public... now it makes sense...


6 posted on 12/07/2017 6:14:44 PM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Where’s the harassment in “ask”?


7 posted on 12/07/2017 6:15:19 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

That has to be the most pathetic get-in-her-pants-pickup-line I have ever heard.


8 posted on 12/07/2017 6:15:21 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

LOL. This guy gets points for originality. He should get a pass. What SJW can complain he was just trying to get a surrogate for his offspring?


9 posted on 12/07/2017 6:16:09 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Unusual? Creepy is more like it. Ask among your family, at your church, but not in the office, especially as an elected member of congress?! Bet these were young women in junior positions being asked by an elected member of congress. Yep, bet they were very uncomfortable.


10 posted on 12/07/2017 6:17:15 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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Bookmark


11 posted on 12/07/2017 6:17:56 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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Creepy is also fair. I can’t imagine how he could think that was appropriate.


12 posted on 12/07/2017 6:18:41 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Has a mixed voting record WRT importing workers. Maybe his replacement will be better.


13 posted on 12/07/2017 6:20:34 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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Surrogacy? Whatever. He’s better off leaving the cesspit.

Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.


14 posted on 12/07/2017 6:22:59 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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” Creepy is more like it.”

Why do so many here fail to see that?

He was a very powerful man, the most powerful in his little organization, and he is soliciting a woman to bear his child?

Dumb bastard should have just hired an attorney to find somebody. It’s how everyone else does it. That’s the common method.

Imagine if your wife or daughter brought home that story?


15 posted on 12/07/2017 6:26:00 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Look around the state, McSally wears an R jersey but backs amnesty/open borders and Raul Grijalva is Mexico’s best representative in the US House.


16 posted on 12/07/2017 6:26:56 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Another former staffer with knowledge of the situation interviewed on Carlson said she thought it was odd but did not think it was anywhere near “harassment.” She thought he should not have resigned. She said Franks and his wife were having problems having kids and she thought he only discussed the possibility of surrogacy in general terms, did not specifically ask them to do it.


17 posted on 12/07/2017 6:28:37 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Damn, that is indeed creepy. Whatever happened to keeping workplace subject matter in the realm of business only?


18 posted on 12/07/2017 6:33:35 PM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Jeez’ she’s a bandmate of the “Strolling Bones”.


19 posted on 12/07/2017 6:34:15 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: clintonh8r

If he is not asking them to do it, why is he discussing it with them. It is not a casual subject when he is looking for the service and they work for him.


20 posted on 12/07/2017 6:35:20 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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