offices said they had never been accused. both in office and before they served. two lawmaker offices said they had no comment. the offices of these two, they were told it would be noted they had no comment. they understood that and they didn t change their answers. now, we got no response from 15 senators despite multiple efforts. you see the senators whose offices didn t respond right there. also no response from 50 u.s. representatives. these are the names you see right there. same as with the senate offices if we didn t get an answer, we tried multiple times. since we started making our call november 29th, independent of our effort a number of congress members have said they are either stepping down or not running for re-election in the wake of allegations. they include john conyers, senator al franken who as we mentioned is resigning january 2nd or says he is, congressman franks, and blake farenthold. there is no indication yet that
at one point offering her $5 million to act as a surrogate. the former staffer said the congressman at least four times asked if she would be willing to act as a surrogate in exchange for money. the former aide said the conversations took place in private, sometimes in the congressman s car, and that she repeatedly told him she was not interested. quoting the staffer, during my time there i was asked a few times to look over a contract to carry his child and if i would conceive his child i would be given $5 million. that was from the a.p. then according to the new york times women staffers said they believed the congressman didn t just mean surrogacy the way you might be thinking of involving a doctor s office. women staffers say they think he meant to impregnate them in the old-fashioned way. and then back to the a.p., the aide cited the surrogacy requests as a main reason for leaving franks s office, adding she felt retaliated against after turning down the congressman, ignored
assignments. as that news was appearing, trent franks went from resigning, oh, sometime next month to gone so fast they couldn t even add his name to the list of vacancies before they unplugged his website. the arizona governor did today set the dates for electing a replacement for congressman franks. that arizona primary will be on february 27th and general election will be april 24th. maybe by then we will all be over the shock of this particular shock resignation story. maybe. nick was born to move.
franks to this list of vacancies. it was a very sudden departure. when we left the story last week, congressman frankds had just confessed to my discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates. surrogacy as in someone to carry a baby for the congressman and his wife. trent franks made a vague self-exonerating statement about him seeking surrogacy for him and his wife and some of his staffers and even though he said he d done nothing wrong he nevertheless announced he would be quitting. he d leave congress at the end of next month on january 31st, 2018. that s where we left it. but congressman franks did not make it anywhere near the end of january. the very next day, after his self-exonerating statement and his announcement that he would eventually leave, the next day on friday the associated press reported new details of his discussion of surrogacy with his former staffers. one former aide telling the a.p. the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child,
month to gone so fast they couldn t add his name to the list of vacancies before they unplugged his website. the arizona did set the dates for legislating a replacement for congressman franks, the primary will be february 27th and general election will be april 24th. maybe by then we ll be over the shock of this particular shock resignation story. maybe.