{"id":29048,"date":"2018-04-07T02:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29048"},"modified":"2018-04-07T02:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T02:29:55","slug":"another-me-too-congressman-hits-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29048","title":{"rendered":"Another ‘Me Too’ congressman hits the road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blake Farenthold, a Republican congressman from Corpus Christi, has quit. Good deal. Hit the road, dude!<\/p>\n

This means Congress’s ranks of men accused of sexual harassment has thinned by one more.<\/p>\n

Farenthold, though, is a bit of a special case<\/a>. He isn’t your garden-variety sexual harasser. He happens to be someone who bilked taxpayers out of $84,000 to settle a harassment claim. You see, the money came from that mysterious fund that enables lawmakers to use the fund — which is public money — to pay off those who accuse them of personal misbehavior.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Farenthold has pledged to pay the money back. He hasn’t done so just yet. Hey, I thought this guy took out a personal to reimburse the fund. Isn’t that what was reported when the allegations came forth in the first place and when Farenthold announced his intention to retire at the end of his current term.<\/p>\n

He’s thought differently<\/em> about that. I won’t say “better,” because of the statement he issued when he announced his resignation effective immediately. “While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it’s time for me to move along and look for new ways to serve,” Farenthold said.<\/p>\n

Here’s a thought as this fellow begins his search for “new ways to serve”: Don’t harass anyone — sexually<\/em> or otherwise.<\/p>\n

Oh, and how about lobbying Congress to get rid of the fund?<\/p>\n\n

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Blake Farenthold, a Republican congressman from Corpus Christi, has quit. Good deal. Hit the road, dude! This means Congress’s ranks of men accused of sexual harassment has thinned by one more. Farenthold, though, is a bit of a special case. He isn’t your garden-variety sexual harasser. He happens to be someone who bilked taxpayers out … Continue reading Another ‘Me Too’ congressman hits the road<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2190,7392,3524,4237],"class_list":["post-29048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-house-speaker","tag-me-too","tag-paul-ryan","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29050,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29048\/revisions\/29050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}