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[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Trent Franks ? Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz .) on Dec. 7 said  he ’ll resign after  he  had a “discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates.” (Bastien Inzaurralde Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)
 Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)  on Dec. 7 said  he ’ll resign after  he  had a “discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates.” (Bastien Inzaurralde Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)
 Rep. Trent Franks  an Arizona Republican who is among the most conservative members of the House   said  he  would resign  his  seat after House officials learned that  he  had asked two female employees to bear  his  child as a surrogate.
 Franks’s  announcement came as the House Ethics Committee said it would create a special subcommittee to investigate  Franks  for conduct “that constitutes sexual harassment and/or retaliation for opposing sexual harassment.”
His resignation  which  Franks  said is effective Jan. 31  will end the ethics investigation.
 Franks  said in  his  statement that the investigation concerns  his  “discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates  making each feel uncomfortable.”
While  Franks ’s statement left the circumstances of the “discussion” murky  three Republicans familiar with the allegations said that he had asked the staffers  who worked for him at the time but have since left his office  if they would serve as a surrogate mother for his child. A spokesman for  Franks  did not respond to a request for comment on that claim.
In his statement   Franks  said he never “physically intimidated  coerced  or had  or attempted to have  any sexual contact with any member of my congressional staff.”
“However  I do want to take full and personal responsibility for the ways I have broached a topic that  unbeknownst to me until very recently  made certain individuals uncomfortable ”  Franks  said  adding  “I deeply regret that my discussion of this option and process in the workplace caused distress.”
 Franks  explained in  his  statement that  he  and  his  wife have long struggled with infertility. After having twins with a surrogate  the couple sought additional children   he  said.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s office said in a statement Thursday that Ryan (R-Wis.) had been briefed on “credible claims of misconduct” by  Franks  last week  after the House general counsel was contacted about the allegations and investigated them.
 Franks  did not deny the allegations when Ryan confronted him  according to the speaker’s statement. Ryan told  Franks  he should resign  and said he would refer the matter to the House Ethics Committee  his statement said.
The  Franks  revelations came on the same day that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) resigned his seat after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and as the House Ethics Committee opened a separate probe into Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.).
 Franks  has served in the House since 2003 and is known as a fierce opponent of legal abortion  recently sponsoring a bill banning abortions after 20-week gestation that passed the House.  He  is also an outspoken critic of the Senate’s filibuster rule  blaming it for blocking conservative bills.
 Franks  is also a member of the House Freedom Caucus  a hard-right faction that has often clashed with Republican leaders.
 He  considered a run for Senate in 2012 but dropped out suddenly.  He  continued as chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee and as a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
[EX A]: Negative

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bridget Guzior ? Bridget Guzior  the 29-year-old head cheerleading coach at Stagg High School in Palos Hills   had been suspended without pay since Aug. 30 after a text  she  sent a student athlete less than two weeks earlier was brought to the district's attention.
The text message in question  according to a notice of dismissal the district sent  Guzior  on Oct. 17 that was provided to the Daily Southtown by  her  legal team  reads as follows:
The board's statement goes on to say that  Guzior 's "failure to attend a required investigatory conference" and  her  "inadequate recordkeeping in connection with the cheer program" also contributed to the board decision to terminate  her  employment.
The cheerleading coach and  her  attorney Tom Skallas did not attend Tuesday's special meeting  but did provide a written response to the board's charges that laid out their side of the story.
In that letter  which the Southtown obtained from  Guzior 's legal team  Skallas wrote that  Guzior  had been hospitalized days before the scheduled investigatory conference and that attending the meeting "would have further exacerbated Coach Guzior's health issues." He wrote that  Guzior  offered to provide answers to the district's questions in writing  only to be rebuffed.
Skallas also rebutted the board's accusation that  Guzior  had failed to maintain accurate records of the cheerleading program's accounts  writing  "At no time have district officials provided  Coach Guzior  with any specific allegations that any accounts were inappropriately handled."
In its prepared statement  the board conceded that while  Guzior 's recordkeeping "violated district policies and establish (sic) procedures " that "no financial improprieties have been alleged or found."
The district did not immediately respond to a request for evidence of  Guzior 's "inadequate" recordkeeping.
Orloff said his and his son's experience with  Guzior  had been "absolutely fantastic " and credited  her  for turning around the school's cheerleading program.
" She  has motivated (my son) to excel  not only in athletics but in his scholastics " he said. " She  actually cares about every member of that team  how they do  what their futures are  helps promote the children for colleges.  She  goes above and beyond  which I have not seen in too many coaches over the years."
Orloff said his primary hope going forward is that the district applies the standard it applied to  Guzior  to all of  its  coaches.
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jeremy Lin ? Jeremy Lin  is an Asian-American NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets  and he has dreadlocks. Most people simply found that eye-catching  but one former player took it a step further.
Former Nets forward Kenyon Martin tore into  Lin  in an Instagram video Wednesday for the dreadlocks  but  Lin âs response showed class and the composure of someone who has been judged for being an Asian in a predominantly black league for years.
âDo I need to remind this damn boy that his last name Lin?â Martin said. âLike  come on  man. Letâs stop with these people. There is no way possible he wouldâve made it on one of our teams with that bulls**t on his head. âCome on man  somebody need to tell him  like  âalright bro  we get it. You wanna be black.â Like  we get it. But your last name is  Lin  â Martin continued.
 Lin âs response
 Lin  avoided taking any direct shots at Martin in  his  reply  but did point out one glaring bit of hypocrisy in Martinâs cultural appropriation accusation.
 Lin  posted this in an Instagram comment (emphasis added):
Martin  a black man  was accusing  Lin  of trying to be black because of his hair  while Martin himself has tattoos of Chinese lettering on his forearm.
 Lin  explained  his  reasons for  his  unique hairstyle choice in a column on The Playersâ Tribune.
âBut I liked how the process of changing my look actually made me feel more like  myself  again. I realized that in the years since Linsanity  I had spent a lot of time in a box  worrying about other peopleâs opinions on what I should and shouldnât be doing. I wanted to stop basing my decisions so much on what strangers or critics might say about  me . It was cool how something as simple as how I wore my hair could pull me out of my comfort zone and make me feel more free.â
 Lin   a Harvard graduate who made it to the NBA despite being undrafted  enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame with the New York Knicks  followed by an injury-ridden fall from grace.
[EX A]:
Negative