Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Beverly C. Russell Jr. was the stepfather of Susan Smith, the notorious woman who drowned her children. He was active in Republican politics and the Christian Coalition, the rightwing evangelical political association. He was also sexually abusing his stepdaughter Susan. She first tried to kill herself when she was thirteen. She told a school counselor…
Mark Foley was a popular Republican Representative when, in September 2006, a Congressional page revealed texts that Foley was sending him, they were sexual in nature and inappropriate with Congressional page interns, a form of sexual harassment. He had done this several times and pages had complained and reported in the past, so the scandal…
Rep. Dan Crane was an Illinois representative to the U.S. House of Representatives where he had an affair with a 17-year-old girl in the Congressional page program. He ran for re-election and was defeated. Ironically, a year before his actions were revealed he commented that people who have affairs with pages should be punished. He…
Randal David Ankeny was a political activist and attorney in Colorado. He was a volunteer coordinator for Republican Governor Bill Owens’ reelection campaign. He also a regional representative for the Governor’s Economic Development Office. In 2001, he was convicted of attempted sexual assault of a 13-year-old and served two years in prison. In September 2006,…
Ralph Shortey was an Oklahoma state senator and the state chair for the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. A culture warrior, he pushed the birther conspiracy about Obama and tried to pass a bill that would deny immigrants any civil rights. He was also sending and receiving child pornography and trafficking children. He met them online…
Once “Republican of the Year” and a big Republican donor, Mark A. Grethen was accused of sexually assaulting his children and convicted of Indecent Liberties with a Child by a Custodia, Forcible Sodomy, and Aggravated Sexual Battery. He raped his own children who were five and three at the time. He pleaded guilty to the…
Richard A. Delgaudio was a prominent GOP activist and fundraiser in northern Virginia before he pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge and was sentenced to two years probation. Delgaudio created child pornography, paying a sixteen-year-old girl to pose for him at a motel in Baltimore. There were pictures of him having sex with her.…
Donald “Buz” Lukens was a Republican Representative to the U.S. House from Ohio. In fact, John Boehner replaced him in the Republican primary in 1990 when he refused to resign after a scandal. He had also served in the Ohio Senate. Although he was alleged to have had sex with a girl from when she…
Peter Dibble was a Republican selectman in Stonington, CT, who was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor girl on at least 40 occasions over the course of several years, from when she was ten until she was thirteen. He pled no contest to lesser charges of child endangerment and was sentenced to a suspended…
Pastor Mike Hintz signed on to a Nebraska anti-pornography campaign petition which is what one might expect from a religious leader. He was also singled out in a speech by then-President George W. Bush talking about how much Hintz and his wife benefited from his tax plan. Meanwhile, he was arrested for having sex with…