GOP House Member Resigns After Asking Staffer To Have His Baby

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Robert Donachie

GOP Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona announced that he will resign from his seat after reportedly asking two of his female staffers to be surrogates.

“I have always tried to create a very warm and supportive atmosphere for every last person who has ever worked in my congressional office,” Franks said in a statement Thursday. “It is my deepest conviction that there are many staffers, former and present, who readily volunteer to substantiate this fact.”

Franks says he and his wife have “struggled with infertility,” and the couple has “experienced miscarriages.”

The House Ethics Committee will have to rule on whether or not Frank’s advancements towards female staffers constitute sexual harassment.

“But in the midst of this current cultural and media climate, I am deeply convinced I would be unable to complete a fair House Ethics investigation before distorted and sensationalized versions of this story would put me, my family, my staff, and my noble colleagues in the House of Representatives through hyperbolized public excoriation,” Franks said. “Rather than allow a sensationalized trial by media damage those things I love most, this morning I notified House leadership that I will be leaving Congress as ofJanuary 31st, 2018.”

The Arizona congressman was elected in 2002 along with a number of members of the Tea Party Caucus.

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