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1496: James Fishback

James Fishback is a hedge fund manager who is running in the Republican primary for Florida governor, hoping to succeed Ron DeSantis. He seems to court controversy. Recently he called Rep. Byron Donalds a slave. Donalds is a Black man and one of his primary opponents. Donalds complained but Fishback said he had no right to do so because, I guess, Fishback didn’t know there was slavery in Belize, Panama, and Jamaica. He also initiated a secret relationship with a minor who he became engaged to when she became an adult. They later broke up and she has asked for injunction against him for stalking.

The court did not issue the injunction, because she was an adult when the alleged stalking occurred and there were defensible reasons for contact. However, the issue of his relationship with a minor was not litigated.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Grooming, Stalking/Harassment

1495: Jason Cole

Jason Duane Cole represents Ward 4 on the Warr Acres City Council. He remains on the Council as of Christmas Day although he was arrested on December 8th and charged with rape by instrumentation, indecent materials shown to a minor, and three counts of child sexual abuse.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

1494: JaQuon Stembridge

JaQuon Stembridge was recently elected Assistant Secretary of the Georgia Republican Party. He was the youngest person ever elected to a Georgia GOP leadership post. He ran on expanding outreach to young voters.

He resigned after a video began circulating that showed him trying to solicit sex and meet up with a fourteen-year-old boy.

1493: Alisha Marie George

Alisha Marie George was a middle-school teacher at a STEM-focused charter school in northern Utah. She also coached volleyball. She was charged with 22 criminal charges involving the grooming and sexual abuse of a former student who has since called her a monster. Other students have come forward so there may be additional charges.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming

1492: Scott Rocky

Scott James Rocky was a border agent in Michigan for over seventeen years. He frequently reposted rightwing memes. Ironically, he shared a news story about Steven Hoffenberg’s death. Hoffenberg was Jeffrey Epstein’s mentor and banker. He pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse imagery.

1491: Jeannette Garcia

Jeannette Garcia is a Republican member of the Avondale, Arizona, city council. She was also a staff member for Turning Point USA, the extreme conservative organization founded by Charlie Kirk. While she has not been criminally charged, she has been accused of kidnapping a man’s 14-year-old daughter after the man rebuffed her sexual advances.

1490: Krystal Hurd

Krystal Hurd was a Sanibel, Florida, city employee who worked as a camp counselor at Sanibel Recreation Center. She was trusted with the community’s children and exploited that trust. Four of her victims have come forward and police suspect there may be more.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery

1488: Andrew Paul Johnson

Andrew Paul Johnson is an insurrectionist from Tennessee who was pardoned by Trump. He has since been arrested in Tennessee and extradited to Florida to face charges of child sexual abuse. He is currently in custody without bail in Hernando County Jail. His charges include lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child under 12, lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child between 12 and 16, lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor, and cruelty to children.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material