Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Todd Poole was the Executive Director of the North Carolina Republican Party and later went to work for several Republican officials. In 2019, he was working for U. S. Rep. Ted Budd when he was arrested for domestic violence and charged with assault. The charge was dismissed when the woman withdrew her complaint.
Valentino DiGiorgio III was chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party but was forced to resign after he sent unwelcome sexual texts to a woman who was running for Philadelphia City Council. They connected over Facebook and then began texting each other, some of the texts were flirtatious, but then the messages got overly sexual and she told him that he made her uncomfortable and harassing her. He sent her a dick pic.
Stephen Bratton was a Southern Baptist pastor in Texas. He supported a bill that would charge women who had an abortion with murder. In 2019, he was arrested for repeatedly raping a minor child from 2013 to 2015, starting when she was just 13. He admitted guilt to his wife and three pastors at his…
Douglas Perlitz founded a school in Haiti with support and funding of Fairfield University, the Order of Malta, the Society of Jesus in New England, and Haiti Fund, Inc. During the years he ran that school, he groomed and abused the children. The organizations greed to a joint settlement of $60 million for the potential 170 survivors of Perlitz’ many years of abuse.
George Nader is a Lebanese-American businessman and consultant with close ties to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and to Donald Trump. He worked with Erik Prince of Blackwater. He met with Donald Trump, Jr. and representatives of various authoritarian Arab regimes who pledged to help elect Trump. He brokered several more meetings with members of the Trump Administration and Saudi and UAE officials and organized a conference with Elliott Broidy to remove Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State at the behest of the Emiratis and Saudis.
Shawn Brooks is a Trump super-fan, sports blogger, and keyboard misogynist. He runs several political and sports blogs.
He is the person who doctored a video of Nancy Pelosi, slowing down her words to make her seem drunk. He was on probation at the time after pleading guilty to domestic violence in California. He did not complete the terms of his probation, so there is an outstanding warrant in California.
Thomas Tobin was auxiliary bishop in Pittsburgh when he learned of sexual abuse happening within his diocese. He did nothing because, he said, his work was administrative, and so it was not his responsibility.
Anthony Kern was the Republican chair of the House Rules Committee that was deciding what to do with legislation that would affect abuse survivors’ ability to sue their abusers. There were three bills floating around addressing legal issues about child sex abuse such as changing the statute of limitations and the ability of people to sue. This was a bill child sexual abuse survivors opposed and they were present to share their perspective.
Kern refused to allow testimony because he said they heard testimony on a similar bill. The thing is, though, both bills might address the same issue, but one protected abusers. There was a vote, 5-3, along party lines, the Republicans prevailing and denying survivors of child sexual abuse a chance to testify.
Eric Bodenweiser was the Republican nominee to a Delaware State Senate seat in 2012. A few weeks before the election he was charged with several counts of felony sex abuse of a minor under sixteen. The raping began when the boy was ten.
David Narramore was a member of the Kentucky Republican Party’s State Central Committee. He was also chair of the Letcher County Republican Party. He is also involved with the state’s Board of Dentistry, though there was some controversy over that due to his being disciplined for not documenting narcotic prescriptions and over-prescribing.
He was arrested for exposing himself to an employee in a Belk department store bathroom. He iwa also charged with resisting arrest.