Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Dante Acosta was Mayor Pro Temp of Santa Clarita and ran for the California Assembly in 2016. He lost to Democrat Christy Smith in 2018. He also ran for Congress in 2012, but failed. He’s currently serving on the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency board, an appointed position. In 2016, Jennifer Van Laar accused him…
August (Augie) Wolf was a candidate for the Republican nomination to run for U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2016. He was supported by David Koch. The campaign was not going well. By February the campaign had gone through three campaign managers and three treasurers and ten staff had been fired or resigned. In June, a former staffer accused him of sexual harassment as well as federal and state election laws. Samantha Menh alleged he made frequent sexual remarks and sexual advances.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Republican governor of California, was accused of groping six women while he was an actor. In 2002, three women told the L.A. Times that he grabbed their breast, another said he reached under her skirt and grabbed her buttocks. Another said he groped her and tried to remove her swimsuit. Another said he pulled her onto his lap and asked if she had ever experienced a particular sex act. Friends and relatives of most of the accusers have confirmed that they were told about it when they happened. The women wanted to stay anonymous for fear of reprisals and loss of reputation. At least three more women came forward after the original six.
Anthony Bucco is a New Jersey state senator and currently the Republican Party Whip. In 2002, a woman filed a complaint alleging that Bucco made a sexual relationship a requirement of employment. The woman was fired when Bucco’s wife found out. Bucco found her another job but when she refused to continue the relationship, she alleged he got her fired from that job, too. Since the state of NJ was named as a co-defendant, tax money was used to help him negotiate a settlement.
James P. McClusky sentenced a school bus driver who confessed to raping a fourteen-year-old girl to probation, ten years probation, and designated him a Level 1 Sex Offender which meant he was not placed on the Sex Offender registry.
Daniel Edmonds ran for the Republican nomination for US Congress in 2010, but he lost. In 2019, he was arrested for having inappropriate sexual contact with a child over a four-year period. A second child said Edmonds began molesting him around 2015 and continued until December 2018. He was arrested in January, 2019, so who knows how long it might have continued if the child had not come forward.
Rene Rodriguez had been a deputy in Blaine County before being elected Sheriff in Lincoln County Idaho as a Republican. In 2019, he was arrested and charged with one count of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16, four counts of lewd conduct with a minor and two counts of rape, all felonies. The victim was his adopted daughter. She told her mother in 2005/2006 when she was nine but nothing came of it. When she heard her younger sister was sleeping in his bed, she came forward in 2018 to protect her. This was disclosed to the jury and after his conviction this was the basis for his appeal, that they should not have been told. The court disagreed.
Robert Goforth was a Kentucky state representative and a gubernatorial candidate. He was arrested in 2020 for strangulation and domestic violence charges. His wife told police he strangled her with a cord until she feared for her life and was about to pass out. In a plea deal, he pleaded guilty to the domestic violence charge and the strangulation was dropped. He was sentenced to 59 days which he gets to serve concurrently with a federal sentence for fraud and money laundering. I think the voters in his district deserve to be called out as well. 71% of them re-elected this abuser even though his indictment for domestic violence and strangulation was common knowledge.
Bo Dresner was a Republican county official, sergeant of arms, and a precinct chair in Hays County, Texas. He has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of one victim over the course of seven years. The four children in his custody have been removed. Aggravated sexual assault means the alleged assailant caused serious bodily harm, used fear or threats of violence, flourishing of weapons, to coerce them, or gives them something that impairs their ability to resist.
Jack Burkman is a conservative activist and lobbyist. He is one of the people who fostered the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. As head of American Decency, an anti-gay organization, he organized protests of the Dallas Cowboys for hiring a gay player on the practice team. He claimed falsely that he had been raided by the…