By Tisha Crow
Last month, a series of text messages found their way to an online media outlet that appeared to expose a lewd and outrageous affair by a Republican lawmaker in Texas.
The lawmaker’s loyal supporters didn’t want to believe it, many clutched their pearls saying no way would such an outstanding Christian family man do that, and all he had to do was sit silent and refuse to deny the allegations through the election and hope to win.
I am talking of course about Republican Congressman Van Taylor.
Only with Mr. Taylor’s affair, he was unable to outright win his re-election, and the day after being forced into a runoff he confessed and withdrew from running – admitting he had a lewd affair with a woman who was a reformed radical Islamic jihadist.
It does sound like a fictitious plot from a movie rather than real life, but the elements of the allegations were convincing enough that they deserved to be investigated, and they turned out to be true.
My point is that the Republican Party is one of accountability. We don’t turn a blind eye to inappropriate behavior in public…
