Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Craig Rowland, Bingham County, Idaho’s Republican sheriff, was asked by a reporter about an Idaho bill that would require local police and county sheriffs to submit DNA evidence collected from rape victims within 30 days so it can be analyzed. The bill passed unanimously. It was in response to an Idaho Statesman investigation that found…
Seth Carey is a Maine Republican. He ran for DA for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties after a judge found that he had made unwanted sexual advances three times to a woman living in his home. He had lost his license so would be not allowed to actually practice the job he was running for. Despite these facts, he won the Republican primary though he lost in the 2018 General Election though he won 42% of the vote even though he was facing criminal charges and not allowed to practice law.
Scott Baio is a former actor. Chachi of Happy Days. His most recent iteration is as a Republican activist and Trump supporter. He is also alleged to have sexual assaulted a minor. Actress Nicole Eggert claims that Scott Baio began to sexually harass and assault her on the set of their show Charles In Charge…
James Rosen was FOX New’s chief Washington correspondent. He was ousted in December 2017 without an explanation. He was successful with a long career which he derailed by harassing his women colleagues. According to FOX’s internal investigation, he made sexual advances to two women journalists and a producer. He flirted with women on staff even when it was unwelcome. He allegedly groped a woman, grabbing her breasts and when she rejected his advances, he worked to damage her career, taking away sources.
So it should be no surprise that his employees allege sexual harassment, sexual assault, anti-Semitism, and racism.
Larry Cotton was Associate Pastor at Parkway Baptist Church when the seventeen-year-old Jules Woodson came to him and told him that the youth pastor had forced her to give him oral sex the night before. Instead of being concerned about the teenager who has just been sexually assaulted, he attacked her, saying “so you participated.” He told her not to tell anyone and heaped the blame on her, protecting the youth pastor Andy Savage [See GOP Sexual Predators 324: Andy Savage.] Savage was suspended for a time but the church later asked her parents if they would mind if he came back. They minded.
The police were not informed.
Chris Conlee was the pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He supervised Andy Savage [See GOP Predators 324: Andy Savage.] and when the news broke about Jules Woodson, he protected Savage by promoting the false framing that it was a consensual adult sexual encounter even though he knew otherwise. He knew of Savage’s past abuse when he hired him. He knowingly protected Savage and misrepresented him to his church. When Highpoint finished their investigation, they allowed Conlee to resign.
Andy Savage sexually assaulted a seventeen-year-old girl when he was a youth pastor in 1998. At the time, she reported it to his supervisor the next day who decided since she complied with Savage’s coercion, she was a willing participant. She told her parents and enough of a fuss was raised that he was allowed…
However, Wesley Goodman is a sexual predator and many people knew it and covered it up before he was even elected to office.
The Council on National Policy, a 501(c)3, was hosting a fundraiser for Wes Goodman, often described as a rising star. That seems illegal, but it not the focus here. During that event Goodman invited an 18-year-old who came with his parents up to his room after attending another party with Goodman and a group of young men, some of whom were bullied into coming by Goodman. At the end of the night, Goodman invited the young man to his room. He woke up in the middle of the night when Goodman unzipped his pants and began fondling him without his consent. Scared, he ran to his parents and told them what happened.
Ed Crane was co-founder of the Cato Institute. That makes him a Libertarian, not a Republican but until Trumpism, he was mostly aligned with Republicans. For example, they grade candidates based on taxing less and spending less, not on effectiveness of the spending or fairness of the taxation. The adage that says “a Libertarian is…