Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Brian Stout is a Republican Representative in the Oregon House. He ran for District 31 in 2018 and 2020 but lost to Democrat Brad Witt. After redistricting, the district was more Republican and he won in 2022 when Witt ran in a different district. However, one of his campaign volunteers alleged her sexually assaulted and threatened her and sought a protective order that was granted.
Michael Patterson was the City Manager of Florence, Colorado. He was arrested in November 2021 for four counts, including two counts of stalking-emotional distress, a Class 5 felony; sexual contact-no consent, a Class 1 misdemeanor; and providing alcohol to a minor, also a Class 1 misdemeanor. He was immediately terminated and ordered to stay off city property.
However, the council knew about a litany of complaints about his behavior in the office and had already settled three sexual harassment suits. They knew he had pleaded guilty to domestic violence in Oregon when they hired him. When word got out about this arrest, all but one council member resigned.
Aaron Mitchell was a Customs and Border Protection officer in Arizona when he was arrested in April 2022 for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl. According to the police, Mitchell approached a girl walking to school. He was wearing a tactical vest that identified him as a CBP officer. He asked her for her documentation. After she gave it to him, he told her he was taking her to the police station. Instead, he took her to an apartment complex where he raped her.
Scott Yotka was a Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s Police Emergency Communications Officer when he arrested for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material. Of course that means he sexually abused children.
Rafael Cuevas was the pastor of Temple of Prayer Assembly of God church, a church his father built with his own hands. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve from 2017 to 2020. His official charges were two counts of sexual battery and six counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a victim under 12 years old.
Abbott was arrested in North Carolina in January, 2023, and brought to Blount County, Tennessee, for arraignment. The family originally went to the police in June. He was arrested for sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl. The charge of sexual battery by an authority figure is used against defendants who use their job or legal status to take advantage of their victim, or have parental or custodial authority.
Garrett Biggerstaff was the pastor of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Fairfield and a Trump supporter. He is also charged with grooming children.
John Rose is a Tennessee Congressman who has, so far as is known, not broken any laws, however, since he decided to join in the persecution of LGBTIQA people and call them groomers, it is only fair to consider his grooming of his own wife.
Barry S. Edwards was a Florida State University professor when he organized a fundraiser for Giuliani’s presidential run. However, he withdrew from the Pinellas County Republican effort when it was revealed that he was accused of coercion. A nineteen-year-old student claimed Edwards got drunk, showed him porn, and asked him to masturbate. The student claimed Edwards threatened him with bad grades. Later, the student asked to dismiss the case.
Matt Schlapp is the Chair of the American Conservative Union that hosts the CPAC conference. He also chairs the political action committee. In 2022, a staffer on the Herschel Walker campaign accused him of sexual battery by groping him while he drove Schlapp while Schlapp was in Georgia for the campaign.