Anti-‘Grooming’ Republican Resigns After Alleged Sexual Relationship With Teen
Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton — a Republican known for introducing far-right legislation, including an anti-“grooming” bill to ban children from attending drag shows — resigned on Monday after a panel found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 19-year-old intern.
Slaton’s resignation comes a day before the state legislature was slated to vote on whether to expel him from the House of Representatives. On Saturday, the House Committee on General Investigating released a damning 16-page report detailing Slaton’s “grave and serious” misconduct, unanimously recommending he be kicked out of the legislature.
Slaton was accused last month of having “sexual relations” with a young intern he invited to his apartment in Austin, with The Texas Tribune reporting that he drank alcohol with the underage subordinate. The bipartisan House committee determined this was, in fact, the case, writing that the lawmaker “engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a subordinate.”
Slaton did not acknowledge the incident in his statement announcing his resignation, and his attorney called the allegations against him “outrageous” and “false” last month.
Slaton had introduced several far-right bills prior to his resignation, including one in March
calling for a vote on whether Texas should secede from the United States and another that would
give tax cuts to heterosexual, property-owning couples who have children. Slaton has also been one of the state’s loudest voices decrying the sexualization of children. “This is just going to the grooming, the sexualization of our children,” he
told OANN last year after introducing a bill to ban kids from attending drag shows. “This comes down to decency, morality and ethics, and children should not be the object of your sexualization, your desires.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anti-grooming-republican-resigns-alleged-193253478.html
well at least this 45 year old man conveniently decided to resign a day before they were going to remove him from legislature for banging some intern not even half of his age. how convenient. yeah buddy that oughtta save your reputation! just quit a day before you are about to get fired and that will totally absolve everything.
its for the better i guess. the republicans wouldn't want to have those kinds of people affiliated with them when they are busy trying to take peoples rights away, demonize gay and trans people, and scream the G word at everything they don't like.
