Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Wilton Frederick Bland ran as a Republican candidate for Mineral County Commission in West Virginia but lost about a year before he was arrested on 136 charges: 73 counts of possession of child pornography; 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly having sex with a child under age 11; nine counts…
Republican Hewart Lee Bennett was a youth minister in West Palm Beach when he was arrested for soliciting a 15-year-old boy. Someone called the police, reporting a suspicious vehicle. He told the deputy he was there to talk to children about being gay, trying to put them on the right path, not to be gay.…
Clifton Bennett’s father is Ken Bennett, a Republican who has been in elected office most of the time since 1985. He’s running for Arizona Senate in the GOP primary now. In 2006, when his son was eighteen, Ken Bennett was President of the Arizona Senate. That position gave his son the sweetheart plea deal of…
E Ozwald Balfour was a conservative radio host, founder of the Utah Republican Black Assembly, and a Utah Republican State Central Committee member, the latter even after he was arrested for sexually abusing women who applied for work at his media company. In the end, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 90 days…
J. D. Roy Atchison was the U.S. Attorney for northern Florida when he flew to Michigan after e-mailing with a mother who was offering her five-year-old daughter to be sexually abused. He reassured the mother, “I’m always gentle and loving, not to worry, I’ve done it plenty” and told her to tell the child he…
Bob Allen represented Florida District 32 from 2000 to 2008. His career came to an end when he offered $20 to perform oral sex on a man at a local park. Sadly for him, the man was an undercover cop and he was arrested. Normally, I would not include a closeted gay man caught being…
Russell Harding was an aide to Rudy Giuliani and President of the New York City Housing Development Corp. His appointment was controversial as he did not graduate college and had no relevant housing experience. His tenure ended with charges of embezzlement and possessing child pornography on his work computer. He was sentenced to five years…
Rev. Stephen Aiken was the founder of the YouthQuest Christian counseling agency. Two girls who came to him for help were molested by him. He was charged with two counts of corrupting a minor and convicted. The jury deadlocked on indecent assault. His denials rested on his claim that as a religious leader he had…
Jim Knoblach was the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and running for certain re-election when his daughter came forward alleging he had touched her inappropriately throughout most of her life from age 9 to 21. She confided in friends, family, and mandatory reporters at her school and church over the course of…