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429: Steve King

Rape Culture

Steve King was a Republican U.S. representative from Iowa from 2003 to 2019. He was infamous for his extremist views, his anti-Black, anti-immigrant, and antiabortion views. He did manage to shock the world though with his defense of rape. He actually asked if not for rape and incest, “would there be any humanity left.”

428: Omar Navarro

Stalking/Harassment

Omar Navarro has challenged California Representative Maxine Waters four times. He got 22% in 2022. In 2020, he came in third in the California primary, unable to campaign because he was in jail. He is a Q adherent and has tweeted Pizzagate baloney. He’s been endorsed by a rogue’s gallery of Republican who were pardoned…

427: Bill Post

Sexual Harassment

Bill Post was an Oregon state representative and a rightwing radio host who always rushed to the extreme right, anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-gun control, anti-woman, and definitely opposed to making work safe for women. He tweeted a meme that mocked sexual assault victims and only deleted after days of protest and did not apologize. Instead,…

426: Andrew Knarr

Sexual Harassment

Andrew Knarr was an aide to Colorado Republican state senator Jim Smallwood until he was fired for mocking sexual harassment and making a homophobic slur. He posted a photo on social media complaining “and they aren’t even gonna show me the proper way to grab a woman’s ass. This is fucking gay.” Sen. Smallwood fired…

425: Michael Henne

Sexual Harassment

Michael Henne is an Ohio state representative who said something offensive to a table of people at an event. There was an investigation that determined his remark was inappropriate but did not rise to the level of criminal sexual harassment. He was ordered to take sensitivity training and lost a committee assignment.

423: Bill Seitz

Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Harassment

Bill Seitz was accused of sexual harassment after a going-away party for a Republican staffer. In his comments, he disparaged women in the legislature and made light of sexual harassment. He mocked women and used misogynist crude epithets to describe them. He apologized. The House leadership hired a law firm to investigate. The same law firm where Seitz worked for 36 years. The same law firm that donated to his campaign. They cleared him.

422: Jim Stewart III

Sexual Harassment

Jim Stewart III is a Kentucky state representative. In 2015, he was accused of sexual harassment. A woman on the legislative staff filed a complaint noting that she even changed her movement so she could avoid him and he would seek her out. He grew more insistent, trying to speak to her in public and calling her several times a day.

420: Joel Anderson

Sexual Harassment

Joel Anderson is a San Diego County Supervisor and a former Republican state senator in California. He was reprimanded for threatening a woman who was a lobbyist in a bar. He rubbed her shoulders which witnesses described as clearly unwelcome and uninvited. He then complained that her organization had not endorsed him, and said he out to “bitch slap” her. According to a witness, he threatened to slap her several times. Another witness confirmed it as did the restaurant staff.