Former state Reps. Bryan Slaton, Kyle Biedermann on the House floor at the state Capitol in Austin on April 26, 2021.“Was he convicted? What was his crime? Is it a crime to have sex with a 19-year-old woman?” Biedermann said in a video captured from a Kendall County Tea Party meeting this week. “In your house, not at the Capitol.”
The remarks about Slaton were captured in a video obtained by The Texas Tribune on Thursday, but it does not show Biedermann’s face. Wally Kinney, who attended the meeting and can be heard asking questions, confirmed that Biedermann is the man heard speaking in the video. “Let me tell you how many people have done that in the Capitol and nothing happens to them,” he added, without naming names.
In an interview, Kinney said the remarks may have damaged Biedermann with people who had started the night supporting him. Biedermann has been known to court controversy. The Fredericksburg hardware store owner was outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, sent letters to Muslim leaders in the state to survey their— in which Biedermann is doing a Nazi salute — resurfaced during his 2016 run for the Texas House. Biedermann downplayed criticisms of the photo at the time, instead condemning “political correctness.
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