Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
David Swartz, a Republican Richland County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to felony sex abuse involving two teens, though he began abusing them when they were six or eleven years old. He was sentenced to just eight years in prison. The Lantern Project: Ex-County Commissioner Admits Sexual Assault of Girl
Anti-gay and anti-choice activist Howard Scott Heldreth was charged with rape and kidnapping a 16-year-old girl in 1992. He pleaded guilty to sexual battery and was sentenced to probation and registration as a sex offender.
Joseph Russell Dendy was a Georgia Republican power broker. As Chairman of the Cobb County Republican Party, the home county of former Speaker Newt Gingrich, he networked with the Republican party greats, working on many campaigns, including for Mike Huckabee who is such good buddies with child molesters Ted Nugent and Josh Duggar. Meanwhile, Dendy…
When Dennis Hastert was a serial sexual predator according to the judge who sentences him to 15 months in prison. He abused children between the ages of 14 and 17 while he was their teacher and coach. This is the same man who as Speaker of the House oversaw the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He…
Stephen Bates, until recently, was the pastor of the Bible Baptist Church. In that position, he endorsed Ted Cruz in 2015. According to investigators, he used the computer at that church parsonage to look at child pornography. When they arrested him, he was carrying two USB drives with child porn, videos portraying sex acts with…
Michigan Republican House candidate Robert “RJ” Regan claims he tells his daughters that if rape is inevitable they should lie back and enjoy it.
Brandon Beckham is running for Utah’s Senate District 23 as a Republican. His campaign site is here. He has been charged with forcible sexual abuse. The woman who filed the complaint also informed police that he called to apologize after claiming he was “wild” and admitting “he had gone too far.”
Paul Dyal, a registered Republican and pastor at the Jacksonville Assembly of the Body of Christ, was arrested along with two of his friends and partners in crime for sexual battery of several children with allegations going back over thirty years. The two other men associated with the church, Vernon Williamson and Jerome Teschendorf, were…
Pastor William Henry Randall was the Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 3rd district in 1998. He lost. Randall was the pastor of St. Simon Baptist Church in Orange Park. The abuse began when a twelve-year-old girl began attending his church. He exploited the trust people put in their pastors to sexually assault this child…
Dennis Perkins, 45, is facing 150 felony charges that allege rape, child pornography, sexual battery of a child, and video voyeurism. His wife, Cynthia Perkins, and former lover, Melanie Curtin, have already pleaded guilty to various crimes they committed with Perkins. Perkins is a former Sheriff’s lieutenant and head of the Livingston Parish SWAT team…