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

[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........

[clintonh8r]

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.

[savagesusie]

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.

[lee martell]

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.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

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.”

[Revel]

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

[Mrs. Don-o]

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.

[txrefugee]

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.

[marktwain]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

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

[Brown Deer]

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...

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Nov 14, 2017:
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Nov 24, 2017:
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Nov 27, 2017:
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Nov 30, 2017:
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Dec 6, 2017:
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Dec 7, 2017:
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Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, who asked staffers if they would bear his child as a surrogate, says he will resign

[Pinkbell]

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.

[SMGFan]

His statement

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

[skr]

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

[GOPJ]

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

[Bodleian_Girl]

Totally inappropriate discussion or question from a member of congress to staff member.

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

[PJ-Comix]

He should have found this WOMAN who would have been a very enthusiastic surrogate.

[Pinkbell]

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.

[RooRoobird20]

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

[SamAdams76]

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.

[amihow]

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