Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Cody Henson was a Republican state representative in North Carolina, representing the Transylvania and Mills River area. His wife left him while she was pregnant with their second child, claiming he was overly controlling, frequently threatened her with violence, threw a full can of beer at her in front of their child, and threatened to kill himself, at other times he threatened to kill her.
Morton Klein is the head of the Zionists of America, a far-right group closely allied with Republican politicians and heavily funded by Republican donors. There are allegations of sexual harassment against him.
Steven Muñoz worked on Rick Santorum’s campaign and was hired by the Trump Administration for a job in the State Department making arrangements for official visits of foreign heads of state. He was a graduate of The Citadel, a military college. While he was at The Citadel, five freshman claimed that Muñoz used his power…
David Stringer was a Republican state representative in Arizona when it came out that he had reached a plea deal decades earlier that cleaned up his criminal record, a record with child pornography and child molestation.
When the story broke that he had a criminal record that had been expunged, he claimed he made a plea agreement even though it was an unjust, false arrest. He claimed two sex workers named him as a client in order to get out of trouble. That was a complete fabrication. The police records show he was arrested for child pornography and molesting two children.
Jerod Prunty, aide to Louisiana Republican congressman Clay Higgins, was arrested for pandering along with eight other people in a trafficking case in Lafayette Parish. The trafficking operation was centered around five massage parlors. His roommate Pingjuan Xia was indicted as a co-conspirator and it is believed that Prunty introduced her to rich and influential men who then patronized her “massage parlors” that were staffed with immigrants forced to service clients.
Childs owns J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm based in Massachusetts. A Republican, he’s a big donor to Republican candidates and lobbying organizations such as Club for Growth. So far this year, he’s given a little over $3.5 million to Republicans.
He was one of several influential, rich men who patronized a sex trafficking ring that imprisoned immigrant women, forcing them to live at massage parlors where they were forced to have unprotected sex with thousands of men, their compliance extorted with threats against their family back in their home country.
Michael Silvestri had run for mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, and for freeholder position, an archaic title for county elected officials. (It’s been eliminated as of January 2021.) In 2018, he ran for state assembly and was accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault by a campaign worker.
Fred Anderson is a Republican representative from Great Falls, Montana. He is running for re-election in 2022. You can see his answers to a local paper candidate questionnaire where he states abortion should be illegal at any time for any reason. So no rape or incest exception. Which fits with his failure to do his job as a high school principal and protect his students from a serial predator athletic trainer who abused as many as 200 boys. The gruesome details are in the Buzzfeed article.
Alexander Acosta is an Republican politician. He began his career clerking for Justice Samuel Alito before getting hired by the world’s largest law firm Kirkland and Ellis, specializing in labor law. He did some teaching in labor law as well, before he was appointed to the National Labor Relations Board by George W. Bush. He…
Erick Bennett challenged Susan Collins in the GOP primary in Maine, hoping to replace her in the U.S. Senate. He was convicted of domestic violence after attacking his wife in 2003. He also thinks that is a reason to vote for him. He claims his wife set him up and that he has been jailed for refusing to admit to something he didn’t do. This, he claims, is proof of how much integrity he has. His defense was she tripped over her own feet and fell against him. He was convicted, appealed and appealed and lost and lost.