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RiverStone

(7,228 posts) Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:07 PM Dec 2017

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Hey DEMS on the Hill -- What about repubs Blake Farentholds and Joe Barton? Asking them to resign??

Stories here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blake-farentholds-sexual-harassment-settlement-was-paid-using-taxpayer-funds/

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/22/us-rep-joe-barton-deciding-how-respond-after-graphic-photo-circulates-/

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Hey DEMS on the Hill -- What about repubs Blake Farentholds and Joe Barton? Asking them to resign?? (Original Post) RiverStone Dec 2017 OP

Of course not! Chasstev365 Dec 2017 #1

I'm sick to my stomach over this BS. Make it stop! DO NOT RESIGN AL!!!!! rainy Dec 2017 #2

And Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump n/t greeny2323 Dec 2017 #3

Of course agree! Just saying it makes zero sense to be demanding Al resign... RiverStone Dec 2017 #5

Smokey Joe can't leave until they find House of Roberts Dec 2017 #4

Joe Barton has already said he is not running again VMA131Marine Dec 2017 #6

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)

1. Of course not!

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:08 PM

Dec 2017

rainy

(6,092 posts)

2. I'm sick to my stomach over this BS. Make it stop! DO NOT RESIGN AL!!!!!

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:08 PM

Dec 2017

greeny2323

(590 posts)

3. And Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump n/t

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:14 PM

Dec 2017

RiverStone

(7,228 posts)

5. Of course agree! Just saying it makes zero sense to be demanding Al resign...

Reply to greeny2323 (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:16 PM

Dec 2017

Without demanding on a daily and loud way, all the above repubs resign or be removed.

House of Roberts

(5,177 posts)

4. Smokey Joe can't leave until they find

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:15 PM

Dec 2017

a worse scoundrel to replace him.

VMA131Marine

(4,140 posts)

6. Joe Barton has already said he is not running again

Reply to RiverStone (Original post)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:24 PM

Dec 2017

And, while the relationship with the woman he sent the picture to was adulterous, it was consensual. It remains to be seen if she was trying to blackmail him with the photo as he has claimed. If we are going to

Farenthold is just creepy. He should be forced out on that basis alone but definitely because of the settlement that he paid with taxpayer money and for the same reason as Conyers.

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