With the apparent final straw being an undorsement from the Texas Right to Life PAC, Texan nationalist Republican state Representative Bryan Slaton on Monday tendered his resignation from the legislature just a day before he was to face an expulsion vote following a damning report by the state House General Investigative Committee finding the former Baptist minister had engaged in an inappropriate and predatory sexual relationship with a 19 year-old female legislative intern.
Stay tuned to National Zero for more articles about Texas. Funny how on the one rare day so far we don’t cover Trump at all (that one Wisconsin article with his name in the headline wasn’t really even about him) we still end up largely stuck on some other singular nexus of right wing insanity.