Far-Right
Republican
extremist
Trent Franks
ran for
election to
the U.S.
House to
represent
Arizona's
8th
Congressional
District. He
lost in the
Republican
primary on
July 30,
2024. Franks
was a member
of the U.S.
House,
representing
Arizona's
8th
Congressional
District. He
assumed
office on
January 3,
2003. He
left office
on December
8, 2017. On
December 7,
2017, Franks
announced
that he
would resign
from
Congress on
January 31,
2018. In a
statement, he
acknowledged
that he had
discussed
possible
surrogacy
arrangements
with female
staffers. On
December 8,
he revised
his date of
resignation
and said he
would leave
immediately.
He said the
change was
due to his
wife's
admission to
the hospital
for an
ailment.
Franks began
his
political
career in
1984, when
he won
election to
the Arizona
House of
Representatives.
He served in
that
position
from 1985 to
1987.
"Former
Republican
Rep. Trent
Franks stunned
the Arizona
political
world
Wednesday
when he
announced
he'd run to
regain the
seat he
resigned in
2017
following a
shocking
sexual
harassment
scandal in
which he
pushed a
pair of
aides to
serve as
surrogate
mothers.
Franks is
campaigning
to replace
retiring
Rep. Debbie
Lesko, a
fellow
Republican
who was
elected to
succeed him
in a 2018
special
election.
Franks first
won a
previous
version of
this
conservative
seat (then
as now based
in the
western
suburbs of
Phoenix) in
2002, and he
stood out as
an ardent
rightwinger
even before
he called
President
Barack Obama
an "enemy of
humanity" in
2009. He
made his
opposition
to abortion
rights one
of his
central
causes:
Franks would
claim in
2010, "Half
of all Black
children are
aborted,"
and insisted
in 2013 that
"the
incidence of
rape
resulting in
pregnancy
are very
low.""
"House
Speaker Paul
Ryan’s
office
released a
statement
saying that
Ryan was
briefed on
“credible
claims of
misconduct”
last week
and that
Franks did
not deny the
allegations
when he was
confronted
with them.
The
Wisconsin
Republican
said he
accepted the
letter of
resignation
Thursday."
"This
Republican
Congressman
has
absolutely
no problem
with a
foreign
country
committing
cyber-espionage
— well, at
least as
long as it's
targeting
the
Democrats."
"Members
of the"
(Republican)
"Congressional
Western
Caucus,
including
U.S. Rep.
Paul Gosar,
the chair,
and Reps.
Andy Biggs
and Trent
Franks,
all Arizona
Republicans,
joined
several
other for
their party
in calling
on Interior
Secretary
Ryan Zinke
to rescind
the
declarations
of the
monuments,
which were
established
by previous
presidents."
"Republican
Rep. Trent
Franks said
if the
Russian
cyber spies
successfully
hacked into
the
computers of
Hillary
Clinton and
Democrats
and made the
most
embarrassing
aspects of
that
information
public did
so to
support the
election of
Donald
Trump, they
were
performing a
public
service."
H Amdt 1128 - Vote to adopt an amendment to HR 5055 that prohibits the use of funds in violation of an executive order that prohibits government contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
"During a
House
Judiciary
hearing on
his abortion
bill
Wednesday,
Rep. Trent
Franks (R-Ariz.)
said that he
opposes an
exemption
for rape
victims
because “the
incidence of
rape
resulting in
pregnancy
are very
low.”
The measure
passed
unanimously
through the
Senate, but
67
Republican
members of
the House of
Representatives
voted "no"
to assisting
people who
were left,
at best,
powerless or
homeless by
a hurricane
in November.
Jan. 4, 2013
H Amdt 1416 - Vote to adopt an amendment to HR 5856 that prohibits the use of funds appropriated by the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2013 from being used to contravene the Defense of Marriage Act.
"He served
two years,
1985-1987 in
the Arizona
House of
Representatives
and came in
third in a
reelection
bid after he
was
reportedly
discovered
having sex
with a man
inside the
Capitol. "
