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By Miriam Garcia, FOX 10 News - bio
Arizona Congressman Ben
Quayle is denying he took part in any inappropriate behavior during a
fact-finding mission to Israel.
Quayle is accused of
joining a group of lawmakers who were drinking and swimming at a holy site.
One of those lawmakers,
Kansas congressman Kevin Yoder, actually stripped down naked and went skinny
dipping that night. He has apologized.
Congressman Quayle is
speaking out about the incident as well. He says he did go swimming, but says he
didn't do anything wrong.
He also questions the
timing of this -- just a week before the state primary.
"It's unfortunate that
some people are trying to make it what its not and trying to use it for their
political advantage," says Quayle.
Quayle says he never
acted inappropriately and he says he never saw any inappropriate behavior.
"We weren't around it we
didn't see it so that happened after we were already gone."
Quayle was there with his
wife Tiffany who was 8 and a half months pregnant. After dinner at a restaurant
on the Sea of Galilee, he went swimming for 30-seconds -- in shorts, he admits.
Quayle wanted to grab some water to baptize their daughter.
"It was something that I
wanted to experience because that's where Jesus walked on water so take that and
then we went home."
Tiffany Quayle says the
trip was very spiritual for her because her father had just died of cancer.
"I feel like people are
playing politics with my memories and that to me is just a very sad state of
affairs," says Tiffany Quayle.
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