Texas GOP legislator resigns ahead of expulsion vote over alleged sexual misconduct

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

Bryan Slaton resigned from the Texas House of Representatives on Monday ahead of a vote over whether to expel him after an investigation found that he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a 19-year-old aide, the state Republican Party said in a statement.

The House Committee on General Investigating on Saturday released an 18-page report detailing its investigation into Slaton's conduct, which it called "grave and serious." It found he violated House rules by engaging in inappropriate workplace conduct, specifically sexual harassment and retaliation. The five-person committee unanimously recommended his expulsion and the Texas House of Representatives was set to vote Tuesday on whether to expel Slaton from the Legislature.

Matt Rinaldi, chair of the Republican Party of Texas, said Slaton's actions "betrayed the trust" of his constituents.

"We are encouraged that this investigation signals that the House has entered a new era of accountability where all members will be held to the same fair and high standards," Rinaldi said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-house-considers-expelling-gop-representative-alleged-sexual-cond-rcna83343

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Democrats did not run a candidate against him in 2022.

[f_townsend]

1. Guaranteed that if his seat could possibly be replaced by a Democrat

the state GOP would definitely not had been calling for him to resign.

[AZ8theist]

2. Exactly.

If there was ANY CHANCE his seat could be flipped, there wouldn't have even been an investigation.

[SouthBayDem]

3. He represents a Dallas suburban county, Rockwall,

that has been voting Republican for the last 50+ years (having been a typical Solid South Democratic county until the 60s). Biden got only 30% of the vote there in 2020.

[hamsterjill]

4. They are all fixated on sex.

It’s like they are all starved or something. Repressed. It’s sickening.