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Rep. Patrick Meehan  Reeling From 'Soul Mate' Scandal  Won't Run Again
 Pennsylvania Republican Patrick Meehan  who up until this week had been one of the House Ethics Committee members investigating sexual harassment charges   was revealed Jan. 20 to have paid a taxpayer-funded settlement to an accuser last year.
The New York Times reported  Meehan  had settled with a younger staff member after telling  her   he  was attracted to  her . House Speaker Paul Ryan removed  Meehan  from the Ethics Committee post after the story was published.
 Meehan  has decided to leave the House  sources in Congress and the Pennsylvania Republican Party confirmed Thursday night  saying  he  won't defend  his  seat in November's election.
The Philadelphia Inquirer obtained a letter that it reports  Meehan  sent to  his  campaign chairman:
"Unfortunately  recent events concerning my office and the settlement of certain harassment allegations have become a major distraction "  he  wrote. "I need to own it because it is my own conduct that fueled the matter."
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 Meehan  hasn't denied the facts of the settlement  and even told reporters  he  viewed the woman as a soul mate — but insisted the conversation and a letter  he  wrote her wasn't harassment.  He  told member station WHYY: "[I clarified] that I was a happily-married man. I was not looking for any kind of a relationship."
 His  decision not to run again opens up a Democratic-leaning House seat in suburban Philadelphia that already had been high on Democrats' lists of 2018 targets.
Patrick Meehan

As news broke that  Michael Flynn  would testify that Donald Trump ordered  him  to talk to the Russians during the transition phase between administrations  the left exploded with glee that actual evidence of âRussian collusionâ was in sight and it could bring down Trump.
ABC News reported that Trump directed  Flynn  to speak with the Russians âinitially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria.â
âSorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the âdirectiveâ  Flynn  received  itâs incredibly mundane â commented journalist Michael Tracey.
Sorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the "directive"  Flynn  received  it's incredibly mundane [Link] pic.twitter.com/U2jgA3teVe â Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 1  2017
Michael Flynn

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Left-wing Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has an 8-point lead over rivals  a newspaper poll showed on Thursday  even as  second-place candidate Ricardo Anaya  has narrowed the gap since the previous survey.
Lopez Obrador holds 33 percent of the vote  against 25 percent for  Ricardo Anaya  of the left-right coalition âFor Mexico in Front â according to the survey by Mexican newspaper Reforma.
In Reformaâs previous poll in November   Anaya  held just 19 percent of the vote and the gap between the two frontruners was a larger 12 percentage points.
The results show a similar trend to a poll published by Parametria last week  which also showed  Anaya  gaining slightly but had Lopez Obrador with a larger lead.

Ricardo Anaya