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64: Ronald C. Kline

Ronald C. Kline was appointed Orange County Superior Court Judge by Republican Governor Pete Wilson in 1995. A Canadian hacker emailed a trojan horse that enabled him to discover over 1500 separate pieces of child sexual abuse material and forwarded them to a group of people who advocate against child sexual abuse. After that, a…

63: Craig Spence

Craig Spence was a Republican lobbyist with close ties to the Reagan White House including a friendship with V.P. Bush’s National Security Advisor David Gregg who helped Spence give secret, late-night tours of the White House and arranged for people to meet with Bush. Spence was implicated in a gay and child sex-trafficking ring. He…

62: Carey Lee Cramer

Carey Lee Cramer was a Republican Party campaign consultan. He made the anti-Gore ad that copied the 1964 Goldwater “Daisy” ad accusing Gore of giving nuclear secrets to China. The young girl in the ad was his stepdaughter and while filming the ad, he molested two young girls. A jury deliberated almost two days before…

G.O.P. F-Ups: Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape

49: Brent Schepp

Brent Schepp ran uncontested in the Republican primary for Kane County board when he was indicted on 26 counts including 14 counts of criminal sexual assault, 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and two counts of unlawful delivery of alcohol to a minor. The assaults are alleged to have happened in his home. The articles…

48: Tim Nolan

Tim Nolan was a tough-on-crime judge, a Republican party activist, and a Trump campaign supporter. The story of his progress from “hanging judge” to felon is circuitous and centers on a bar he owned. But however he got there, Tim Nolan pleaded guilty to 21 counts of human trafficking, some of the cases involving minors.…

G.O.P. F-Ups: Child Rape, Sexual Assault, Trafficking

47: Richard A. Dasen Sr

Richard A. Dasen, Sr. was a big donor to Republican candidates and causes as well as running Christian Financial Counseling for people who got into debt. He also spent a lot of money on sex workers, some of them underage, and he used his position to extort sex from women in financial trouble. He claimed…

G.O.P. F-Ups: Child Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Trafficking

46: Nicholas Elizondo

Nicholas Elizondo, a board member of the Young Republican Federation, pleaded no contest to the charge of one count of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under fourteen. The child was his five-year-old step-daughter. That was in 1995. He served four of his six-year sentence before being released. He then married and he and…

45: Jon Grunseth

Jon Grunseth was the Republican candidate for Minnesota governor when two women spoke up, accusing him of swimming in the nude with them when they were teens staying overnight with his daughter. It is interesting that the allegation of having a consensual affair with an adult woman was what led him to resign and not…

61: Dennis L. Rader

Dennis L. Rader is the serial killer known as the BTK Killer. He was also a Boy Scout leader and Lutheran Church President. Additionally, he was a Republican appointee to the Sedgewick County Board of Zoning Appeals and the Sedgewick County Animal Control Advisory Board. As the BTK Killer, he killed ten people, two of…

G.O.P. F-Ups: Child Molestation, Child Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape

60: John R. Curtin

John R. Curtin was a Republican committeeman when he hosted a beer party at a Stroudsburg, PA, motel and invited a 17-year-old young man and three boys aged 13 to 20 to drink beer. The seventeen-year-old got drunk and went out for a cigarette and Curtin followed him out, pulled down his pants, and molested…