Understated and subtle dig of the year: "We may want to go back and look at his career as a youth minister." I don't know if it's an LoL or a CoL, cry out loud.
Yep. And the General Investigating look-see won't just go away, swept under the rug; Slaton has spent three years alienating the people who could have protected him. It's all too public now.
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark has updated the old adage for the new MAGA shamelessness: "It's always the ones you most suspect."
UPDATE: In my post this morning, I said that, “The fate of Campbell’s bill is unclear in the House, which does not operate in lockstep the way the Senate does.”
I don’t know what I was thinking. I meant the sentence to suggest my hope that, when push came to shove, the House would not choose to punish the small group of teen trans Texans who are the subject of all this vitriol.
Today the House Public Health Comittee texastribune.org/2023/04/14/texas-gende… Campbell’s bill, and a similar one, out of committee. The Tribune story helpfully reminds us that “a majority of Texas House members have signed on to an earlier version of” the bills.
There’s still plenty of time for nothing to happen, but I am more discouraged that I was this morning.
UPDATE: As of Saturday afternoon, the accusations against Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Hound Dog) have become more serious with the Quorum Report’s publication this afternoon of the complaint sent to the House General Investigating Committee.
While news reports suggested an “inappropriate relationship,” the only specific they provided were that Slaton and an underage intern had consumed alcohol.
The complain goes beyond that to suggest the two had sex. The complaint also clarifies that the intern worked in Rep. Slaton’s office, which, if true, makes his transgressions even worse.
Understated and subtle dig of the year: "We may want to go back and look at his career as a youth minister." I don't know if it's an LoL or a CoL, cry out loud.
Yep. And the General Investigating look-see won't just go away, swept under the rug; Slaton has spent three years alienating the people who could have protected him. It's all too public now.
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark has updated the old adage for the new MAGA shamelessness: "It's always the ones you most suspect."
UPDATE: In my post this morning, I said that, “The fate of Campbell’s bill is unclear in the House, which does not operate in lockstep the way the Senate does.”
I don’t know what I was thinking. I meant the sentence to suggest my hope that, when push came to shove, the House would not choose to punish the small group of teen trans Texans who are the subject of all this vitriol.
Today the House Public Health Comittee texastribune.org/2023/04/14/texas-gende… Campbell’s bill, and a similar one, out of committee. The Tribune story helpfully reminds us that “a majority of Texas House members have signed on to an earlier version of” the bills.
There’s still plenty of time for nothing to happen, but I am more discouraged that I was this morning.
UPDATE: As of Saturday afternoon, the accusations against Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Hound Dog) have become more serious with the Quorum Report’s publication this afternoon of the complaint sent to the House General Investigating Committee.
While news reports suggested an “inappropriate relationship,” the only specific they provided were that Slaton and an underage intern had consumed alcohol.
The complain goes beyond that to suggest the two had sex. The complaint also clarifies that the intern worked in Rep. Slaton’s office, which, if true, makes his transgressions even worse.