Rep. Blake Farenthold (TX-27) used a Congressional fund to pay out $84,000 to a former top staffer who accused him of sexual harassment:
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.”
As if those details weren’t cringe-worthy enough, buckle up. Farenthold didn’t even have to pay the settlement out of his own pocket, he used taxpayer funds to settle the case.
House Administration Committee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) told GOP lawmakers in a closed-door Friday morning meeting that only one House office in the past five years had used an Office of Compliance account to settle a sexual harassment complaint. Harper said in that one instance, the settlement totaled $84,000.
If that isn’t icky enough for you, here’s Rep. Farenthold in an interview with Chris Hayes on MSBNC, waffling about whether he would still support Donald Trump if there were an allegation of rape against Trump.
And here he is at a ‘pajama party’ in 2010:
It is time for Rep. Farenthold to resign and spend more time with his family of pajamas.