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Month: October 2022

351: Fred Anderson

Organizational Cover-Up
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Fred Anderson is a Republican representative from Great Falls, Montana. He is running for re-election in 2022. You can see his answers to a local paper candidate questionnaire where he states abortion should be illegal at any time for any reason. So no rape or incest exception. Which fits with his failure to do his job as a high school principal and protect his students from a serial predator athletic trainer who abused as many as 200 boys. The gruesome details are in the Buzzfeed article.

350: Alexander Acosta

Enabling
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Alexander Acosta is an Republican politician. He began his career clerking for Justice Samuel Alito before getting hired by the world’s largest law firm Kirkland and Ellis, specializing in labor law. He did some teaching in labor law as well, before he was appointed to the National Labor Relations Board by George W. Bush. He…

349: Erick Bennett

Familial Abuse & Violence
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Erick Bennett challenged Susan Collins in the GOP primary in Maine, hoping to replace her in the U.S. Senate. He was convicted of domestic violence after attacking his wife in 2003. He also thinks that is a reason to vote for him. He claims his wife set him up and that he has been jailed for refusing to admit to something he didn’t do. This, he claims, is proof of how much integrity he has. His defense was she tripped over her own feet and fell against him. He was convicted, appealed and appealed and lost and lost.

348: Brian Ellis

Rape
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Brian Ellis was at a bar in 2015, a woman had a fall. Ellis was acquainted with her and offered to take her home, but she alleges he took her to his home. The woman was not voluntarily intoxicated, but she was incapacitated. She thinks she was drugged. She sought medical attention the next day, with a concussion and other injuries. She believes she was raped as she was incapable of consenting while incapacitated. She filed a complaint. Ellis denied her allegations, but resigned under pressure. A grand jury declined to indict.

347: John Anthony

Sexual Assault
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John Anthony was a former Republican Illinois state representative. He served three years before resigning to take a $10k/month job at the Illinois Department of Corrections. He worked there just a few months as he was fired after a staff party where he groped and assaulted several women. One of the incidents was caught on video. He was fired.

346: Samuel Pimm

Sexual Assault
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Samuel Pimm is a Republican Party consultant. According to his Linked-In profile, he specializes in primaries targeting RINOs (mainstream Republicans.) On a flight to London, he was seated next to a woman whom he groped while he thought she was sleeping. She was trying to sleep using a sleep mask and felt him touching her arm and bread, then stroking her thigh. She pretended to wake up and got out of her seat. She asked the crew if she could change seats, explaining the situation. He was arrested upon arrival. He was also charged with obstruction because he washed his hands when the police arrested him, dipping his hand into his waterglass thirteen times. He was found guilty.

345: C. John McCloskey

Sexual Assault, Sexual Misconduct
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C. John McCloskey is a Catholic priest of Opus Dei, the controversial Catholic organization, who was a sort of celebrity converter. He was known for converting several prominent conservative politicians to Catholicism including Newt Gingrich, Sam Brownback, Bob Novak, Larry Kudlow, and Bernard Nathanson, a co-founder of NARAL who became an anti-choice activist. In 2005, Opus Dei paid a $977,000 settlement to a woman who claimed he groped her several times in 2002 when she sought help for marital issues and depression.

344: Rod Hamilton

Sexual Misconduct
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Rod Hamilton is a state representative in Minnesota. He is retiring this year. In 2018, he was accused by a young woman of sexual misconduct, unwanted and nonconsensual touching and kissing. He had been much admired by her because of his advocacy for survivors of sexual assault. She is a sexual assault advocate. When there was a snowstorm that made it impossible for her to drive the more than 200 miles home, he offered to let her stay at his apartment and there he kissed her and touched her even though she had previously told him as a rape survivor that she did not like to be touched. She felt trapped and assaulted, though she makes clear that the misconduct was limited to touching and kissing.

342: John Moore

Sexual Harassment
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John Moore chaired the State House Education Committee in the Mississippi House when he suddenly resigned for health concerns. However, the Speaker said he was facing sexual harassment allegations from several women. Moore’s resignation ended the House investigation into the allegations. The House no longer has jurisdiction and if the women want to pursue resolution, they would have to file a lawsuit.