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Blake Farenthold Blames ‘F-Tards,’ Me Too Campaign For His Downfall
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 19, 2018 10:05am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Jennifer Bendery |
| News Date | Sunday, August 19, 2018 01:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON ― Four months after abruptly quitting Congress amid a sexual harassment scandal, former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) still doesn’t think he did anything wrong.
In fact, the former GOP lawmaker says he “took a bullet for the team” by resigning. He insists he’s right not to repay $84,000 in taxpayer money he spent on a sexual harassment settlement. He ripped the House Ethics Committee for not caring about facts. And he blames “f-tards” and the Me Too movement for driving him out of a job.
Yeah, it’s a lot. And that’s just a sample of Farenthold’s comments in an Aug. 1 deposition he gave in a lawsuit over his new job at a Texas port authority. The Victoria Advocate, a local newspaper, sued the port authority in May for not giving required public notice that it was hiring Farenthold and creating a $160,000-a-year lobbyist job for him. |
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