Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Corey Lewandowski was one of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign managers. Though he was fired, He continued to be part of the Trump world until 2021 after he was alleged to assault a Trump donor. The most infamous was the incident with Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields. Fields was knocked down but did not know who grabbed…
Jeffrey Short was an Asher, Oklahoma, city councilman and a former ICE agent. He was indicted for the rape of two minor children. He was arrested the day after the parents reported the assaults to the police. In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security substantiated that a different child, a 14-year-old claimed he preyed on her. Allegedly, he showed sexual exploitation to minors in his ICE office. He was never charged with those incidents.
Greg Abbott is the Republican governor of Texas who just won re-election in 2022. He contributed to rape culture by vetoing a bill to protect children from being prosecuted when they are the victims of sex traffickers. One of the great injustices of our legal system is that when children are trafficked, they are prosecuted…
Amanda Chase is a Republican state senator in Virginia. She’s well-known for a few outrageous things she has said. She earned her place on this list with her contribution to the foundational argument of rape culture – that it is the victim’s fault for being raped. In a discussion about the public carrying guns, she…
Harry Thomas was a conservative New Jersey pastor. He founded the Creation Festival, a Christian musical festival and Come Alive, a missionary organization. He was convicted of raping four children (one less than ten years old) and inappropriate contact with a fifth. He was sentenced to twenty years without parole, a sentence reached in a plea deal.
John Martin was the head pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church, a conservative anti-gay church. He confessed an “affair” to his wife, which is an odd way of describing child molestation. He then admitted it to the church and church leaders went to the police. “The Lighthouse Baptist Church in Florence is an extremely socially conservative…
Marcia Silva was a Republican and a family court judge who refused to allow a teen rapist be tried as an adult because she believed the twelve-year-old victim wasn’t seriously harmed other than losing her virginity, which the judge decided wasn’t particularly serious even though the girl was left bleeding. “Silva wrote in her August…
James Troiano, a Republican New Jersey family court judge, refused to allow a predatory sixteen-year-old rapist to be tried as an adult because he came from “a good family” and was accepted into a good school. Trying minors as adults is questionable practice, but the totality of this case is extraordinary. A sixteen-year-old boy was…