• Exclusive: Ex-Farenthold aide shares new details of vulgar and abusive behavior

    From CNN Breaking News@VERT to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com on Wed Dec 13 21:11:43 2017
    A former senior aide to Rep. Blake Farenthold has approached the House Ethics Committee to share a damning account of working for the Texas Republican, with the intent of describing the congressman as verbally abusive and sexually demeaning -- and his congressional office as an intensely hostile environment that drove the aide to physical and emotional distress.

    Michael Rekola, who was Farenthold's communications director in 2015, described in an interview with CNN new details of the congressman's abusive behavior. It ranged from making sexually graphic jokes to berating aides - bullying that Rekola says led him to seek medical treatment and psychological counseling, and at one point, caused him to vomit daily.

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