Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-142 next last
To: Anti-Bubba182

According to the former employee he was trying to determine their opinion of the process without directly discussing their possible participation. Apparently it was legitimate because he and his wife now have twins that were born through the use of a surrogate.


41 posted on 12/07/2017 6:49:56 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: CivilWarBrewing

So true. Sodomy is good and a virtue now, baby-killing is good and a “natural right”, pederasty is cool and normal with the Hollywood elite raping all the boys, and the satanists at Bohemian Grove (all elite politicians) whom Paul Bonacci states sodomizes each other and little boys and actually kills some of them-—for Owl (he-she goat) sacrifices...

.....and they BAN Christians and people who are anti-Satanism for their NWO of Postmodernism where Up is Down and Boys are Girls and Vice is Virtue..

We have flipped 2000 years of Ethics back to Satanism and paganism and it needs to be returned to the Constitutional “justice system” of the US Constitution. it is time to return our schools and culture back to God’s Laws and Higher Laws of Natural Law theory which is basis of our Constitution.


42 posted on 12/07/2017 6:50:21 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

His own wife should have told him that was not the way to do it. Go to an agency! Work with strangers, not people you could fire.


43 posted on 12/07/2017 6:50:57 PM PST by lee martell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lurkinanloomin
University of Colorado climate scientist Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. has been targeted by Arizona Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking liberal on the House Natural Resources Committee, for his research challenging the claim that global warming is making weather more extreme. This investigation, and other attacks, have forced Pielke to stop researching climate issues. He said the “incessant attacks and smears are effective, no doubt, I have already shifted all of my academic work away from climate issues.”
44 posted on 12/07/2017 6:51:22 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)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

Why didn’t he say- “in the coming weeks”.


45 posted on 12/07/2017 6:51:32 PM PST by Revel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mariner
Nobody should do this. >p> It splits women up into usable parts --- an ovary here, a unterus there, a legal mother somewhere else (if the kid gets to have a "mother" at all)--- and then isolates those parts for separate exploitation.

It's reproductive concubinage. Wrong from the git-go.

46 posted on 12/07/2017 6:51:36 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

Honestly. No wonder they never get anything done in D.C. If they aren’t sitting and watching porn, they’re asking staffers to be “surrogates.” You have to give him some credit for coming up with a creative line.


47 posted on 12/07/2017 6:53:26 PM PST by txrefugee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182; All

What I heard is that he talked to them about he and his wife’s plans to find a surrogate.

Sounds like it is being morphed into asking for sex.


48 posted on 12/07/2017 6:55:49 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Boomer
When we stop being humans, even at work, then the robots might as well take over the planet anyway.

I think you're on to something.

I wonder... what would it take to reprogram the new sex robots to become Congressional Representatives?

Maybe we can get a bunch of Indians to do the work?

-PJ

49 posted on 12/07/2017 6:55:52 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182
October 18, 2017:

Michelle Ye Hee Lee is leaving The Washington Post Fact Checker

On the political investigations team, Lee will report on the role of money in politics, according to the announcement.

and indeed, she has been very busy ever since, publishing stories once a week about how the Democrats are saving the country from the Republican sexual predators...

The Washington Post

Democracy Dies in Darkness

Oct 27, 2017:
How Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct

Nov 1, 2017:
Trump was expressing political opinion by calling sexual-harassment accusers ‘liars,’ his attorneys argue
Push for anti-harassment training on Capitol Hill gains momentum

Nov 14, 2017:
Female legislators recount harassment stories at hearing

Nov 24, 2017:
House moves toward mandatory anti-sexual harassment training for members, aides

Nov 27, 2017:
On Capitol Hill, pressure grows for more transparency in harassment cases

Nov 30, 2017:
House Democrats weighing legislative changes that would open up harassment settlement process

Dec 1, 2017:
Gowdy, Benghazi panel settled wrongful firing suit with $150,000 in public funds
Treasury fund paid for Rep. Farenthold’s $84,000 sexual harassment settlement

Dec 6, 2017:
How House members guard their secrets in sexual harassment cases

Dec 7, 2017:
Senate steps up scrutiny of congressional sexual harassment complaints
House panel weighs changes to how sexual harassment is reported and settled in Congress
House Ethics Committee revives investigation into Rep. Farenthold
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, who asked staffers if they would bear his child as a surrogate, says he will resign
50 posted on 12/07/2017 6:56:26 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

This is stupid. Obviously he and his wife were struggling. He discussed it with women he knew. Should have asked them? No. That said, unless he harassed them or asked them to do it via him engaging in intercourse, there is no reason to step down. An apology is good enough. IF this is all there is to it, Paul Ryan is ridiculous for lumping him in with Conyers and Franken.


51 posted on 12/07/2017 6:58:12 PM PST by Pinkbell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: clintonh8r

His statement

https://twt-media.washtimes.com/media/misc/2017/12/07/Trent_Franks_Leaving_Congress.pdf


52 posted on 12/07/2017 6:58:36 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: clintonh8r

Thank you for what might be closer to the real story.


53 posted on 12/07/2017 6:59:33 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

He should stay put... democrats don’t care about women ... this was designed as a stunt to use against President Trump.


54 posted on 12/07/2017 6:59:34 PM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Reno89519; Fightin Whitey
Totally inappropriate discussion or question from a member of congress to staff member.

Am I weird? This just isn't a problem for me.

55 posted on 12/07/2017 7:00:06 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Go ahead and vote for Roy Moore. The liberals & GOPe hate Alabama anyway.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: wastoute
He should have found this WOMAN who would have been a very enthusiastic surrogate.
56 posted on 12/07/2017 7:00:10 PM PST by PJ-Comix ("Match me, Sidney.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: txrefugee

You’re presuming he asked them for sex. If all he asked was about traditional surrogacy which involves implanting an embryo, that is quite different and does not rise to level of sexual harassment.


57 posted on 12/07/2017 7:01:17 PM PST by Pinkbell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

Terribly bad judgement on Franks’ part. What the h*ll was he thinking? Unbelievable.......


58 posted on 12/07/2017 7:01:19 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182

I guess the only positive here is that people not paying that much attention will think that Al Franken was looking for surrogate mothers. Similar surnames.


59 posted on 12/07/2017 7:02:18 PM PST by SamAdams76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

Thank you for those sentiments. I am surprised a pro-lifer like Franks would not think the same.


60 posted on 12/07/2017 7:02:59 PM PST by amihow
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-142 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson