Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Billy R. Oswald is a lawyer in Lexington, South Carolina, who was a Lexington County councilman who has run for office as a Republican several times was sued for sexual harassment by Sharon Ross, an employee. Allegations say he exposed himself to employees, pressured employees for sex and berated them for refusing.
Jamey Noel was the Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana and is the Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party. He also was linked to the Oath Keepers in an Anti-Defamation League database, but he denies the association. He was term limited and did not run for re-election in 2022. He was replaced by another Republican, one of his deputies. While he was sheriff, 28 women allege they were sexually assaulted in the county jail.
Joe Lonsdale is a co-founder of Palintir, with Peter Thiel. He also founded an accounting software company and is one of the tech billionaires who finance the right. As a Libertarian, he most strongly supports Rand Paul. He was also a mentor for engineering students at Stanford, his alma mater. A former mentee, Ellie Clougherty sued him alleging sexual abuse and rape.
David Farren was the lead pastor of Anchor Church in Texarkana when he was arrested for crimes he committed as youth pastor at Heritage Baptist Church, also in Texarkana. Two women came forward to report they were raped by him when they attended his youth ministry classes.
Peter Thiel is the founder of PayPal. In 1995, he co-wrote a book with David O. Sacks where they summed up date rape as “seductions that are later regretted.” It’s called “The Diversity Myth” and is an argument against diversity and speech codes and efforts to mitigate white supremacy.
Melvin Slack was a Republican candidate for mayor of Shreveport. He dropped out of the race for a couple of days after a woman sought a restraining order, but he got back in because he thought quitting dishonored the memory of his son. He lost.
Gary Lee Bell is a former Assistant Attorney General in Utah’s Child Protection Division. In his job, he prosecuted people who committed crimes against children. At home, he created child sexual abuse material.
Glen Uselmann was a youth pastor at Calvary Gospel Church led by John Grant. He groomed and then raped a child, Rebecca, when she was just twelve. He continued to rape her until she was eighteen when they were married. They had two children. Ten years later, she came forward alleging the church fostered a culture of abuse and tolerated child sexual abuse in an article at Capital Times.
John Grant is the pastor of Calvary Gospel Church in Madison. He elevated himself to bishop in 2015. He is also accused of abetting child molesters in his church by shaming the children and women and enforcing their silence to remain in church. He made child rape victims apologize to the church for being raped.
Anthony Iglesias was youth pastor in two Idaho churches in the Calvary Chapel network. He was convicted of sexually abusing two boys. The churches were sued by four of his victims because they should have known and protected them.