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Stuart G

(38,434 posts)
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 09:58 AM Dec 2017

Talk in GOP Rep's Office, per Ex-Aides: Strip Clubs, Sex, Etc..

http://www.newser.com/story/252755/gop-rep-allowed-talk-of-breasts-genitals-ex-staffers.html

(Newser) – It isn't just talk of "sexual fantasies" and "wet dreams" that allegedly permeates Rep. Blake Farenthold's office. Though the Republican congressman from Texas has denied wrongdoing after paying $84,000 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment claim three years ago, two former aides tell the New York Times that Farenthold "set the tone for off-color jokes and inappropriate banter" that made discussions of women's breasts and male lobbyists' genitals commonplace. Elizabeth Peace, who served as Farenthold's press secretary until March, says she quit partly because of inappropriate sexualized comments, including discussions of strip clubs, photos of male lobbyists' genitals sent to female staffers, and conversations on which female reporters had breast implants.

Per the Houston: Chronicle, Peace complained about inappropriate sexualized comments in 2016, the same time another aide complained that female employees were treated "differently" in his office. A rep for Farenthold says a review found no evidence of wrongdoing and employees "took sensitivity and anti-harassment training." Still, Peace says "the behavior never changed," per the Times. An unnamed former aide who describes discussions of breasts also accuses Farenthold of "rude comments" and "acts of aggression or rage." In response, the Texas Tribune notes the four-term congressman faces the toughest re-election fight of his career with Republican Reps. Mia Love of Utah and Barbara Comstock of Virginia demanding he resign. Most Republicans, however, appear to remain in Farenthold's corner.

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Kind of crude, but these are the specifics of what has been alleged. Of all the sentences in this article, the last one could tell more than anything else.
Here is another link to another story about Farenthold. This time Farenthold put down and made fun of a male staffer, Michael Rekola, about the time Rekola was getting married. Farenthold told Rekola certain crude behaviors that Rekola should do to his new wife on the honeymoon.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/blake-farenthold-accusations/index.html

This sentence from the above link at CNN is particularly significant:..."With his detailed account of pervasive abuse in Farenthold's office, Rekola is a rare male staffer to come forward with charges of misconduct.
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Talk in GOP Rep's Office, per Ex-Aides: Strip Clubs, Sex, Etc.. (Original Post) Stuart G Dec 2017 OP
Keepin alive good old Republican Family Values lunasun Dec 2017 #1
What's the deal with dick pics? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2017 #2
I sure don't know...this congressman needs to resign, talking to his staff this way. Stuart G Dec 2017 #3

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. Keepin alive good old Republican Family Values
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:45 AM
Dec 2017

..was getting married. Farenthold told Rekola certain crude behaviors that Rekola should do to his new wife on the honeymoon.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,033 posts)
2. What's the deal with dick pics?
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:58 AM
Dec 2017

I'm a guy and I don't get it. No one I've ever hung with has ever pulled that shit that I'm aware of.

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)
3. I sure don't know...this congressman needs to resign, talking to his staff this way.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:01 AM
Dec 2017

He is a true nut ball, crazy man, or whatever you want to call him. (my apologies to "nut balls" for associating them with this jerk)

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