{"id":4953,"date":"2023-05-09T19:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/05\/09\/texas-house-expels-bryan-slaton-first-member-ousted-since-1927\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:09:19","slug":"texas-house-expels-bryan-slaton-first-member-ousted-since-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/05\/09\/texas-house-expels-bryan-slaton-first-member-ousted-since-1927\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas House expels Bryan Slaton, first member ousted since 1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The Texas House unanimously voted to expel Bryan Slaton\u00a0on Tuesday, one day after the Royse City Republican submitted his resignation after an internal investigation determined that he had sex with a 19-year-old aide after getting her drunk. After a solemn, sometimes angry and tearful recounting of Slaton\u2019s &#8220;graphic&#8221; and &#8220;offensive&#8221; behavior, the House voted 147-0 for expulsion,\u00a0making Slaton the first member of the Texas Legislature to be removed from office since 1927. Support of two-thirds of the House was needed for expulsion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas House unanimously voted to expel Bryan Slaton\u00a0on Tuesday, one day after the Royse City Republican submitted his resignation after an internal investigation determined that he had sex with a 19-year-old aide after getting her drunk. After a solemn, sometimes angry and tearful recounting of Slaton\u2019s &#8220;graphic&#8221; and &#8220;offensive&#8221; behavior, the House voted 147-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}