Blake Farenthold, the disgraced congressman from South Texas, told us that he was going to serve out his term after resigning for being a sexist pig and a real pervert.

He lied.

Of course he also lied about repaying the $84,000 in taxpayer money used to settle the lawsuit brought by his former legislative aide.

So, he lies.

His new plan is to leave congress early enough to trigger a special election prior to the big playing-for-keeps contest that happens in November.  That would benefit Republicans, who could then run their candidate coming off a much publicized win.

Another benefit would be that a special election costs the taxpayers about the same as landing on Boardwalk with three hotels.  Farenthold loves spending your money.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.