Rep. Blake Farenthold used taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment claim brought by his former spokesman — the only known sitting member of Congress to have used a little-known congressional account to pay an accuser, sources told POLITICO.
Lauren Greene, the Texas Republican’s former communications director, sued her boss in December 2014 over allegations of gender discrimination, sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.
Greene claimed in the lawsuit that another Farenthold aide told her the lawmaker had “sexual fantasies” and “wet dreams” about Greene. She also claimed that Farenthold “regularly drank to excess” and told her in February 2014 that he was “estranged from his wife and had not had sex with her in years.”
When she complained about comments Farenthold and a male staffer made to her, Greene said the congressman improperly fired her. She filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, but the case was later dropped after both parties reached a private settlement.
No information was ever released on that agreement.
You know if somebody had asked me which sitting politician that I thought was definitely going to be called out during this #MeToo campaign I would not have hesitated for a second in point out Farenthold.
Oh, and I also wrote about this case back in 2014.
I would bet this pervert is still abusing women and that more stories will emerge regarding his misbehavior. He also doesn't seem like the type to resign in disgrace but would probably fight it out like Roy Moore. But I want to be careful since Gryphen warned us yesterday that men may get into trouble simply for staring too long.
ReplyDeletei have no problem with the lookers. it's the grabbers i hate. look, women dress up, wear makeup, and do their hair to look nice. men are supposed to look. not leer, just look. you can tell us that we are pretty-that our dress is nice. you can't tell us we are sexy and need to have sex with anyone. it's a matter of manners. sounds a little Victorian but things don't change. we are NOT walking c&@#$%%^s and don't treat us that way.
DeleteFB.I've seen kids spill out their piggy banks and plan their allowance budget with more care than the Republicans in Congress are planning for the future of the U.S economy.
ReplyDelete"Surprise!" is fun to hear when you walk unbeknownst into a party in your honor. "Surprise!" is not going to be a lot of fun to be a part of when this lax bill, if it passes, becomes law. I am truly dumbfounded at what is taking place. There has always been wheeling and dealing in Congress. There are always provisions put in to win votes. But the magnitude of these issues - we're talking the U.S. Economy! and oh, yes, healthcare, and now even elements of environmental policy (drilling in the Wildlife Refuge in Alaska) - combined with the sheer opaqueness of the process, the fact that no one really knows what's in the bill, or how it will play out over time just boggles the mind.
I have seen a lot in my life, but I don't recall ever seeing anything like this. It's a rushed hack job just to give the President and the GOP big donors a "win" when tens of millions of Americans stand to lose in the form of higher taxes. And potentially hundreds of millions more stand to lose in the form of a fractured economy. If you want an example of this "oh yeah economic growth will more than make up for the tax cuts" mantra at work, just google Kansas and see how that economic experiment is turning out.
I have been touring the country of late and meeting so many of you who believe, as I do, that we are better than this. The polls suggest that most Americans are against this tax bill, and I suggest that if it becomes law and all the little surprises start popping out, it will become even less popular. This isn't tax policy. It's a shakedown by the monied interests. Remember when deficits mattered, when that was the reason we couldn't say, fund such things as health care for children and student lunches? Well that all just seems to be another convenient stalking horse put out to pasture in this age of unreason."
Dan the Man Rather
Who is paying who for what 'end game'?
Mr. Rather is here in Portland a week from tomorrow on his book tour. By the time I knew I could go, tickets were sold out. One of the best journalists of my time.
DeleteNonsense - we know how it will play out. ReThugs and the shitgibbon ar just lying about it. The middle class ald those in almost porverty get screwed. ANy normal part of life - getting healthcare, getting an education will be gambles where soem of the very real possibilities are death, debtors prison or bankruptcy.
DeleteDucky pajama boy had another guy and another scantily clad young lady in the original pic. Rumour had it the other girl was underage, which is why they quit showing her pic.
ReplyDeleteBlake has the 18 minute gap in the Nixon tapes between his front toofers. He is supposed to be a millionaire and can't afford dental work. Lord help us SS recipients.
His Grandmother was a well known Texas Democratic legislator.
Step-grabdmother. My parents campaigned for Sissy Farenthold in Texas years ago. Her politics and those of Blake are completely opposite.
Deletecan't afford dental work?? welcome to the tech college dental school!! a place where teenagers get to play with your teeth. use a pliers. hurts less. although the last time i got lucky and had a grad student. she stuck her finger with the needle-i kid you not. life on SS is so much fun. people seem to think we're rich.
DeleteRe dental school. I've had work done there for years. All students are checked and double checked on their work by both their student partners and the faculty who ate working dental pros. I paid 30$ for a panoramic radiographs that would have cost me thousands. I've had cleanings, fillings, chip repair, and bleach trays all for pennies on the dollar. All of it has stood the test of time and my being there helped a student graduate. So, don't lump all students together. You may have got a bad deal but from what I've seen it's not the norm. Those kids need real time to graduate and we poor need a deal. Win\ win.
DeleteHe looks like a goofy character!
ReplyDeletegoofy is kind. Perverted, arrogant jackass is closer to the truth.
DeleteHe looks like Bristol Palin before surgery. Twins.
DeleteFarenthold is her type
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creep.
DeleteActually, to me he looks more like a FAT Alfred E. Neuman in that picture. And that tooth gap seals it.
Delete7:14 lmao! He does! Bris should hook him up with her "jaw realignment" doc!
DeleteSenate Republicans are trying to force a vote in the next few hours on a 479-page tax bill whose final text includes handwritten edits in the margins. That's ridiculous. https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/936765276527489024
ReplyDeleteFriday Flipping Flynn
Holy FUCK. I work at an institution where decisions only affect tops, 20K people. We wouldn't allow such garbage in committee decision tha taffect even 1% of our 20K.
DeleteRepublican leaders promise they won’t let their tax bill trigger a $25 billion cut to Medicare
Deletehttps://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/1/16726452/republican-leaders-paygo-medicare-tax
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DeleteQuestion: Since when has the repube party kept their word?
Anon at 7:18 pm. Do you really believe what "Republican leaders" say? I sure don't.
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I wonder if this is the GOP Rep. who Jackie Speier had in mind when she said both a Dem. and Repub.in Congress were guilty of harassment.If there are more GOPs, I hope they get outed soon. It's still looking like too much of a Dem problem. I can't bear listening to Fox and others acting as if it's only Dems. Plus, this is hurting in terms of how the idiot GOP voters in Alabama are looking at their race--they're able to say an "everyone does it" and go right back to the plan to vote for Roy Moore. Those voters have little to no conscience, but for a short while there, they were managing to think in terms of not voting for a pedophile.
ReplyDeletethe democrats who did it are coming out and admitting to it. saying their sorry. submitting to investigation. the repubs are lying though their teeth. saying that their victims are lying, refusing to admit they are sleezeballs. now trump is claiming that access hollywood tape is fake. not only are women the victims now they are also the "victimizers". lying to hurt those poor helpless republican men, trying to kill their careers. i bet it's Hillary's doing!!
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Delete"the democrats who did it are coming out and admitting to it. saying their sorry. submitting to investigation."
Do you REALLY think that makes a damned bit of difference to the repubes? They are going to simply say, "See? They admit it. But our guys deny it so we're okay."
Those fools only look at that which SUPPORTS their ideas, not the entire story - just like facts they don't like are fake news.
Of course Bristol had to find a way into the #MeToo campaign. She's equating some ugly things done (but lying about Letterman again--Bristol, Dave was talking about YOU, not your younger sister) in the public sphere to her mother with what has happened to actual behind-closed-doors victims. And she forgets how often her mother joked about people's looks/bodies/sexiness and used inappropriate language in so many situations, all of which suggested to people that they could be bawdy right back.
ReplyDeleteBristol can't write.
DeleteThat vulva-looking statue outside Wasilla High School was “dedicated” to her for a reason. There’s no #metoo when you give it away like chewing gum, but that’s the Palin women for you. ALWAYS victims. Of their own stupidity.
DeleteTodd Palin called rape. Boycott to Fire Letterman. Letterman apologized.
DeleteLevi is the one to #MeToo.
Track too horrible to mention.
Drunk Bristol attacks man at Anchorage brawl.
List too long to go on.
Joe McGinniss can't #MeToo.
DeleteIs Bristol Palin’s new memoir the story of a rape survivor speaking out?
Deletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-bristol-palins-new-memoir-the-story-of-a-rape-survivor-speaking-out/2011/06/23/AGLMzcjH_story.html?utm_term=.e1b973c90f5e
Don't forget Bristol perjured herself in court stating boys were coming to rape her when she was all by herself (except for those secret service guys) in the wilderness!
DeleteTripp's work and documented abuse. No apology. http://i2.wp.com/radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bristol-palin-son-tripp.png?resize=350%2C350
DeleteLife's a Tripp
5:36 PM Palins steal. Never apologize.
DeleteBristol teaching Tripp to tongue Papparazi http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/20/article-2161947-13B220B0000005DC-990_634x578.jpg
DeleteNo apology. Bristol Palin is a TERRIBLE PARENT -- and the proof is in her reality show. Tormented Tripp runs wild, talks back, curses, and shows no respect to his elders. http://a.abcnews.com/images/GMA/abc_gaa_toetotoe_120813_wg.jpg
Deletestands on the dog...
Deletesarah would like to believe she is sexy. breast implants, tight tacky clothes, very high heels. always tasteless. tell me why did the repubs pick her? and McCain has just lost his hard earned respect from me. i defended him when he refused to vote for trumpcare. and now he votes for the rich. what can you do with all that money? how boring life would be.
DeleteWhat kind of a life has Bristol Palin lived to be able to write a "memoir" at her age? All she's done is have sex with too many men and had a mini-swarm of children. I guess hawking icky tea is not making enough money? Doesn't MOH have a day job?
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Tom Arnold ha hinted that the so-called Ray Rice-like tape of Trump is one where he physically attacks Melania Trump in an elevator.
ReplyDeleteArnold also alludes to a tape of Trump & Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, being filmed with Young Russian females.
Oh Boy... https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/936062728640196608
and he tells us NOW?!!
DeleteI hope America is paying attention. Time for Change. These criminal clowns elected to serve the people are in need of serious reality check. We have witnessed the most criminally reckless waste of our tax dollars everyday for the last year. They have insulted Americans dangerously. The current republican party is over. It is now the party of dung.
ReplyDeletetrump is the top of a very dirty iceberg. even with the help of the Russians he would not gotten elected with out a lot of money changing hands.
DeleteBlakey Fart and Hold. gigglesnort.
ReplyDeleteGeraldo Rivera’s 1991 Memoir Is a F*ck Fest-Filled Bible of Workplace Harassment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/geraldo-riveras-1991-memoir-is-a-fck-fest-filled-bible-of-workplace-harassment
ReplyDeleteNot to mentin Blakey boy is an obscene glutton.
ReplyDeleteBristol is whining on the Daily Mail about Letterman making sex jokes about underaged Willow a few years back. I always though he got the 2 sister's names mixed up. Then she puts a naked video up of her toddler on the web? She is dense.
ReplyDeleteHe never said a name. It was clearly about Bristol. Because she's the slut who gets pregnant in that family.
DeleteWhen your only income is selling snake oil tea to idiots she has to get must attention any way she can, it might bring in another customer and another few bucks for diapers.
Deletehow old was she when she started? being a teenager and having sex with another teenager isn't so different than with an older man if you are so dense you don't know what birth control is. i heard bristol was the town mattress for some time. "don't do as i do, do as i say! don't have sex (and two kids) before you get married!"
DeleteThat will be the Duhkota Palin look in five years.
ReplyDeleteWon't take five years...
DeleteI feel abused seeing his 'image.'
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why these women think taking money to stay silent is ok.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I am concerned, they are enablers.
it's a form of revenge. you can't do what you really want to do-do i need to spell that out?-but taking their money hits them where they live. even better if wife finds out were the money went.
DeleteYea right.like in this case he is really hurting using tax payer money,
DeleteMedia companies pay for the guys.
So in the end they were paid off for their silence,guys didn't use their money and are free to continue the bad behavior thus the women enabled other women to be harassed
Do I have to spell it out to you? None of these men were hit in their pocketbooks!
Oh, look. Betsy DeVos got some pork.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is this doing in a Federal Tax Bill?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-tax-plan-includes-special-break-conservative-college-022742601.html
"Senate Democrats on Friday slammed a provision in the Republicans' sweeping tax bill designed to give a special tax break to a conservative college in Michigan.
Democrats said the tax break was designed to help just one politically-connected school: Hillsdale College in southern Michigan."
"Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., acknowledged he sponsored the language and Hillsdale College would benefit from it."
"Democrats complained that some well-known conservatives have connections to the school, including Trump administration Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Graduates include Erik Prince, who is DeVos' brother and the founder of the government contractor once known as Blackwater, and former Rep. Chris Chocola of Indiana. Chocola once headed the conservative Club for Growth, an advocacy group that Toomey also once led.
"This unfortunately is the metaphor for this bill and how high the stench is rising in this chamber," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y."
No longer a swamp. Now a cesspool.
There is so much unrelated crap in this bill it is ridiculous. Bet even the republicans couldn't tells what exactly is in it.
DeleteSarah Palin says 'San Francisco is NOT a safe place' after Kate Steinle verdict
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Steinle-verdict-Sarah-Palin-San-Francisco-not-safe-12398082.php
She's so nuts. I drive past the pier where Kate died all the time and it's in one of the most pristine and safe parts of the city. SF is like any big city and has crime, but in general it's a safe place and the Embarcadero where the shooting happened is full of shops and restaurants and is always filled with people, both residents and tourists, enjoying themselves. Palin has no clue.
DeleteTax bill passed Senate, and tomorrow so many Trump voters and GOPers who didn't make their voices heard will be in shock and will start to feel despair. As details about the bill come out, those Trump worshipers who are thrilled at the moment will become deflated as they learn who this bill benefits. Oh-f-ing-well.
Deleteare you kidding? of all the American cities i think San Francisco would be the i visit. we, you know, the earth quake thing but we have tornados so where ever you go ma nature is out to get you. cranky old bat. the tax bill won't last. i think when the democrats get voted in they will find a way to kill it or water it down. the repubs are toast if they pass it.
DeleteWell I heard Wasilla isn't a safe place to visit due to gun toting,drunk palins.
Deleteyuck. i bet crack W^%*&^%$'s turn him down. those jammies. ick.
ReplyDeleteThe guy has a fetish. Looks like something from his infancy. Regardless, Americans should not pay for it!!!
ReplyDeleteI’m so pissed I’ve had to pay for bad behavior in government. They all needed to be called out and get the fck out!
ReplyDeleteWe new this guy was a winner when the duck pajama picture came out, disgusting.
This creep voted about a week ago for the Great GOP Tax Scam. He and all of his GOP colleagues are simply disgusting.
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