A month after unveiling his reelection campaign, Texas House Republican and state DOGE Committee Chairman Giovanni Capriglione shocked the Texas capitol Tuesday by announcing he no longer plans to run. The about-face came just before a bombshell interview surfaced Friday with an exotic dancer who maintains she had a 17-year affair with the conservative Dallas-Fort Worth-area lawmaker, whom she also alleges paid for her abortions and made disturbing sexual comments about children. Far-right media outlet Current Revolt published the 25-minute interview with a woman named Alex Grace, a self-described former exotic dancer and a mother of four, who said she began seeing Capriglione in 2004.
