Trent Franks

Trent Franks

Trent Franks (* 19th June 1957 in Uravan , Montrose County , Colorado ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2003 to 2013 he represented the second congressional electoral district of the state of Arizona in the US House of Representatives . From January 2013 to December 2017 he represented the eighth constituency of Arizona .

Family, education and work

Franks attended the Ottawa University Arizona branch for a year . He then worked for the Liberty Petroleum Corporation , of which he later became president. For over four years he was the executive director of the Arizona Family Research Institute , a conservative think tank protecting children and families in Arizona.

Franks has been married to his wife Josephine since 1980.

Political career

From 1985 to 1987 Frank was a member of the House of Representatives from Arizona . There he was Vice President of the Trade Committee. He held the same position in a subcommittee on the protection of youth and families. In 1987, Governor Evan Mecham made him the youth commissioner of the Arizona state government. In 1994 he lost his party's primary election when he was running for a nomination in the fourth congressional electoral district of Arizona for a seat in the US House of Representatives.

In 2002 Frank was elected for the newly formed second congressional electoral district with 60 to 37 percent of the vote against Randy Camacho by the Democratic Party in the US Congress . Two years later, he defended this mandate again against Camacho in the 2004 election , this time with 59:38 percent of the vote.

He won the 2006 and 2008 congressional elections with 59 percent of the vote against John Thrasher. He also won the 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 elections. He was temporarily a member of the Armed Forces Committee and the Legal Committee and a total of four sub-committees.

On December 7, 2017, Franks announced that he would give up his mandate in the House of Representatives at the end of January 2018 on charges of alleged sexual assault on female employees. The House Ethics Committee had previously decided to investigate rumors that had existed for years. On December 8, Franks admitted in a statement that he had embarrassed two of his employees for talking to them about surrogacy and resigned with immediate effect.

There will be a by-election for this seat until the end of the regular term in January 2019; the constituency is considered to be republican. Donald Trump received 21 percentage points more than Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election ; Franks was elected in 2016 with a 37 point lead.

Positions

Franks advocated a nationwide ban on online poker games in 2010 and expressed doubts that global warming is taking place. He has campaigned against abortion ( Pro-Life ) and declared in 2010 that the opportunity to do so cost more African American lives than slavery in the United States . In 2009, he named US President Barack Obama as an "enemy of humanity" because he was the most abortion-friendly president of all time. Before the 2008 presidential election , Franks, in line with the conspiracy-based Birther movement, had questioned that Obama was born in the United States ( natural born citizen ) and considered filing a lawsuit for a birth certificate, but decided against it after the election.

Web links

• Trent Franks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rachael Bade, Jake Sherman: Female aides fretted Franks wanted to have sex to impregnate them. In: Politico , December 8, 2017 (English).
2. ↑ spiegel.de: US politician wanted to pay five million dollars for possible sex to women
3. ↑ Bridget Bowman, Lindsey McPherson: Arizona's Trent Franks to Resign Jan. 31. In: Roll Call , December 7, 2017 (English).
4. ^ A Tip on Slavery, Holocaust Talk. In: The New York Times , February 26, 2010 (English).
5. ^ Rep. Trent Franks: Obama is "Enemy of Humanity". In: CBS News , September 29, 2009.