There’s a lot of news to ingest here: While at a county Tea Party meeting, a Republican former Texas legislator running to rejoin the state house decried the legislature for ousting a Republican representative last year after he allegedly had sex with a 19-year-old intern he got drunk. Got it?
First: There’s still a Tea Party? That’s, like, soooo three iterations of the Freedom Caucus ago. Second: ewww. As told by the Texas Tribune, Texas Republican Kyle Biedermann stood before a meeting of the Kendall County Tea Party and spoke in support of Bryan Slaton, an “Independent Texas” advocate who his peers ousted for his morally-corrupt act.
But Biedermann doesn’t think the act merited the punishment. “Was he convicted? What was his crime? Is it a crime to have sex with a 19-year-old woman? In your house, not at the Capitol,” said Biedermann in a video. Contacted later by the Tribune, Biedermann said his rant was referring to the selective punishment meted out by Republicans in Austin, who ignore affairs and other misdeeds of GOP leadership. Uh huh.