{"id":55802,"date":"2023-09-08T01:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55802"},"modified":"2023-09-08T01:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:57:57","slug":"bryan-slaton-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55802","title":{"rendered":"Six candidates seek Slaton&#8217;s old seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Six candidates have filed to run for the Texas House of Representatives seat vacated by the expelled Rep. Bryan Slaton, a Royse City Republican, in one of the more bizarre sex-related scandals in anyone&#8217;s recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>The five Republicans who filed are Jill Dutton, former president of Republican Women of Van Zandt; Heath Hyde, a Sulphur Springs attorney; Brent Money, a Greenville lawyer; Doug Roszhart, vice chair of the Hunt County GOP; and Krista Schild, a Hunt County precinct chair. The Democrat is Kristen Washington, a former member of the Greenville City Council.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll rehash briefly what happened to Slaton. The two-term representative took an underage staffer to his Austin apartment, filled her with booze and then had sex with her. This supposedly &#8220;devout Christian&#8221; never apologized for his action when the House called him on it; he exhibited zero contrition. So the House voted unanimously to oust his sorry a** out of the House.<\/p>\n<p>I notice that three of the five Republican candidates are men.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Fine, but let me caution all those fellas about the risk of campaigning for a seat once held by a politician who got caught breaking his most sacred of oaths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/09\/07\/house-district-2-special-election-bryan-slaton\/\">Six file to run in special election to replace Rep. Bryan Slaton | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do not, gentlemen, brag to the Texas House District 2 residents you will meet about &#8220;being faithful to my wife.&#8221; It is expected that the vow you take is intended to last forever. Marital fidelity is no reason to vote for you.<\/p>\n<p>Got it? Good!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six candidates have filed to run for the Texas House of Representatives seat vacated by the expelled Rep. Bryan Slaton, a Royse City Republican, in one of the more bizarre sex-related scandals in anyone&#8217;s recent memory. The five Republicans who filed are Jill Dutton, former president of Republican Women of Van Zandt; Heath Hyde, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six candidates seek Slaton&#8217;s old seat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10248,4622,10268],"class_list":["post-55802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-brian-slaton","tag-texas-gop","tag-texas-house-district-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55804,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55802\/revisions\/55804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}