Farenthold resigns as Calhoun Port Authority lobbyist

[Zorro]

Disgraced former Congressman Blake Farenthold submitted his resignation as lobbyist for the Calhoun Port Authority, officials announced Thursday.

Farenthold submitted his resignation to the port board in a letter dated Jan. 4, but it was announced by executive director Charles Hausmann during Thursday morning’s board meeting.

Board members did not comment about the resignation. Hausmann said only that Farenthold left “to pursue other opportunities.” Hausmann declined to comment about whether the board would hire another person for the position.

The Victoria Advocate asked for a copy of Farenthold’s resignation letter, but Hausmann said he would release that only after receiving an open records request. The Advocate viewed the letter after submitting the request.

https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/counties/calhoun/farenthold-resigns-as-calhoun-port-authority-lobbyist-w-resignation-letter/article_2a5ed496-14f3-11e9-b079-df25f3b7fb80.html

[Vinca]

1. What's the matter? Not enough women to harass at the port authority?

[Judi Lynn]

2. No one will have pajama parties with him there, as they used to when he was Rep. Farenthold:

Of course, he would be the one in the duck p.j.'s.

His elegant, and Democratic liberal grandmother Cissy Farenthold must be so proud of him:





(When grandmother Cissy Farenthold was much younger... and with her children, one of the sons as Blake's dad.)


Sissy Farenthold Speaks Truth to Power on What We Must Do to Save America
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist.

“I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.” – Sissy Farenthold

This week, as President of Meyerland Area Democrats, I was able to get a progressive legend to come and speak. Her name is Sissy Farenthold.

See, Sissy was the first woman elected to the Texas House, back in 1968. She took out a good ole boy and won the House seat in South Texas. Farenthold became a household name as the “den mother” of reformers in the Texas House, her courage to take on the corruption there made her a national hero. Her actions directly led to the toppling of most the corrupt figures in the legislature in what became the Sharpstown Stock Scandal.

Then in 1972 she did the unthinkable again: she ran for governor. It was a media sensation and a explosive firestorm: a liberal woman running in her own right against the conservative Democratic Party machine. Sissy’s run empowered a new generation of progressives in the state, and even by losing she scored a win. She peeled off votes from the embattled incumbent Governor Preston Smith and long groomed LBJ/ Connally protégé Lt. Governor Ben Barnes. Thus, banker Dolph Briscoe wound getting the most votes and went into a runoff with Sissy! He won the runoff and political history was made. Farenthold’s run had cost two Texas incumbents the governorship.

That same year of 1972 more history was made: she was nominated at the Democratic Nation Convention for Vice President. She is the first woman to have had such real consideration and it almost happened, but alas she got second place in the voting. She went on to run in 1974 again for governor, lost, then established many organization such as the National Women’s Political Caucus.

Although Sissy only served two terms in the Texas legislature (1968-1972) she made a massive impact on her state and the national scene. Without Sissy you do not get Ann Richards or Hillary Clinton.

More:
http://www.taylormarsh.com/2012/01/sissy-farenthold-speaks-truth-to-power-on-what-we-must-do-to-save-america/



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[brush]

3. Don't worry, whatever he did will come out. He's not quitting for more time with family.

[dalton99a]

6. He probably grabbed someone

[Gothmog]

4. Duckie Pajama Boy was fired yet again

[dalton99a]

5. Now he can do pajama parties full time