Posted on 12/08/2017 12:46:11 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., announced Friday that he is resigning from Congress effective immediately instead of waiting until the end of January.
Franks said Thursday he would leave next month after it emerged that he discussed surrogate parenthood with two female staffers — some reports said he asked them directly to be a surrogate mother. But in a Friday a statement, Franks said his wife was admitted to a hospital Thursday night due to a recurring health issue, and that Friday would be his last day as a sitting member of Congress.
"Last night, my wife was admitted to the hospital in Washington, D.C. due to an ongoing ailment," Franks said. "After discussing options with my family, we came to the conclusion that the best thing for our family now would be for me to tender my previous resignation effective today, December 8th, 2017."
Franks said he discussed surrogacy with his staff because he and his wife have suffered from infertility, and were looking to have a third child.
"Due to my familiarity and experience with the process of surrogacy, I clearly became insensitive as to how the discussion of such an intensely personal topic might affect others," Franks said. "I have recently learned that the Ethics Committee is reviewing an inquiry regarding my discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates, making each feel uncomfortable. I deeply regret that my discussion of this option and process in the workplace caused distress."
"But in the midst of this current cultural and media climate, I am deeply convinced I would be unable to complete a fair House Ethics investigation before distorted and sensationalized versions of this story would put me, my family, my staff, and my noble colleagues in the House of Representatives through hyperbolized public excoriation," Franks said, saying then that he would remain in Congress for most of the next two months. "It is with the greatest sadness, that for the sake of the causes I deeply love, I must now step back from the battle I have spent over three decades fighting."
Franks had served in Congress since 2003 and was a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
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I’m a believer.
“Is asking someone to be a surrogate automatically deemed sexual harassment?
I know a woman who was a surrogate. She seemed quite happy to do it.”
Just don’t tell them about your vasectomy and that you need to keep trying until pregnancy happens.
Others are pompous dick heads. I wont mention any in particular.
“Last night, my wife was admitted to the hospital in Washington, D.C. due to an ongoing ailment,” Franks said. “
The ongoing ailment being a nervous brekdown over old Trent’S endless porking of every skirt and heels within range.
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I guess you will be staying with CNN?
You’re a talent that would do them proud.
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Your Blocked
I think those words were found on a Sumerian clay tablet inscribed in 3,000 BC.
“He didn’t ask them to have his baby you fool.
He asked them to carry his baby. Enormous difference.”
You mean after it is born and in a nice little nightie? Maybe give it a bottle and burp it once in awhile? What a tender scene.
“That definitely makes him scum. My apologies. I took his request for surrogacy at face value and assumed he’d follow medical protocall.”
Sounds like he was looking for an F buddy(ies) under the guise of surrogacy. The sly fox.
Actually, after having read more about it, the whole thing looks pretty strange.
“. A lot of people think “surrogacy” implies sexual intercourse with the surrogate. That is not going to result in his wife’s embryo being implanted in the surrogate”
Depends on the instrument used for implantation.
“Franks was born in 1957, and married his wife when he was 23, in 1980. Assuming she is roughly his age, or only a little younger, and since they have two children, this request came when they were well into middle age, and sounds rather suspicious.”
Who in their right mind wants another kid at age 60?
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Yes Mr. Cuomo!
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“As I remember it (about 60-years ago at the age of 24), my biggest problem was being asked by married women to be a surrogate father.”
Ive had the same dreams myself.
“The former is inappropriate in the context of approaching young women who report to him and might form the basis for some kind of employment discrimination claim.”
How do you tell the guy who signs your paycheck you dont want to carry his kid for 9 months then go through delivery?The only thing that should be left is a roadrunner cloud where that woman was standing.
“Trents wanted to do the impregnating himself.
And not with a turkey baster, if u know what I mean.”
Yeah with the pork turkey baster substituted at the last second.
It sounds like it to me. A typical payout for surrogacies is usually in the tens of thousands to a couple hundred thousand.
Nobody is going to pay $5 million dollars for a baby.
“I’d say no. Personal impregnation is not actual surrogacy anyway.”
Sort of a reversi..instead of the wife she supplies the egg. Then he is the surrogate.
“Last night, my wife was admitted to the hospital in Washington, D.C. due to an ongoing ailment,”
If my wife found out I was doing this shit I woukd be the one admitted to the hospital.
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