Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Keith Westmoreland, a Republican representative to the Tennessee state legislature, was arrested for indecent exposure in Tampa, FL. Children at the hotel where he was staying reported on three separate days that he exposed himself in the pool and hot tub. He killed himself. Family tragedy, including sexual abuse, often repeats through many cycles. His…
Andrew Buhr, Republican committeeman for Hadley Township in Missouri and an unsuccessful GOP nominee for the Missouri House in 2000, was arrested for statutory sodomy. He did not deny having sex with the thirteen-year-old boy but claimed he thought he was older. Enough on the jury thought it was possible to mistake a thirteen-year-old child…
John Gosek, former Mayor of Oswego, NY, was reported by a woman who worked as a monitor at a local school. He had asked her to find young girls he could have sex with. He offered to give the girls cocaine, alcohol, and ecstasy. Instead of setting him up with girls, she set him up…
Kevin Coan was St. Louis, Missouri’s top Republican election official when he was arrested for traveling to Illinois to meet up with a 14-year-old girl for sex. The girl turned out to be undercover law enforcement. While searching his computer, police also found child pornography. Dispatch-Argus: Police: Child Porn found on election official’s computer St.…
Paul Ingram was the Republican Party Chairman in Thurston County, Washington. He was also the Chief Civilian Deputy of the sheriff’s department. He was accused of rape by his two daughters and his son. He confessed and was sentenced to twenty years. This is a strange and problematic case. His confession included talk of satanic…
Earl “Butch” Kimmerling and his wife Saundra were foster parents. Craig Peterson was a gay man who wanted to adopt children and was approved to adopt four siblings, three boys and a girl. The girl’s foster parents, the Kimmerlings, were anti-gay and raised a stink. Earl Kimmerling said gay adoption was against God’s will and…
Jon Matthews was a conservative radio host who also wrote opinion columns for the weekly Fort Bend/Southwest Star. He was malicious in attacking political opponents such as calling the Sugar Land mayor Mayor Osama. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to indecency with an eleven-year-old child, a neighbor girl who came over to play with his…
Rev. C. Stephen White, more commonly known as “Brother Stephen.” preached against Muslims, LGBTIQA people, and other things deemed sinful by the hardline evangelical right. He often focused on ministering to youth, organizing basketball games and even dressing up as Caleb the Clown. He also had an active campus ministry. He was arrested after asking…
John Hathaway was a primary candidate for the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate in 1996. The seat was open after the retirement of Sen. William S. Cohen. Also running in that primary, were Susan Collins and Robert Monks. During the campaign, word got out that in Alabama he had been accused of…
Robert Bauman was a Republican congressional representative from Maryland. In 1980 he was arrested and charged with solicitation of a minor, a sixteen-year-old boy. He was allowed to plead innocent and have the charges dismissed in a plea deal that required him to enter a court-supervised rehabilitation program. He blamed his problems on alcohol. He…