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328: James Rosen

Sexual Harassment

James Rosen was FOX New’s chief Washington correspondent. He was ousted in December 2017 without an explanation. He was successful with a long career which he derailed by harassing his women colleagues. According to FOX’s internal investigation, he made sexual advances to two women journalists and a producer. He flirted with women on staff even when it was unwelcome. He allegedly groped a woman, grabbing her breasts and when she rejected his advances, he worked to damage her career, taking away sources.

326: Larry Cotton

Organizational Cover-Up

Larry Cotton was Associate Pastor at Parkway Baptist Church when the seventeen-year-old Jules Woodson came to him and told him that the youth pastor had forced her to give him oral sex the night before. Instead of being concerned about the teenager who has just been sexually assaulted, he attacked her, saying “so you participated.” He told her not to tell anyone and heaped the blame on her, protecting the youth pastor Andy Savage [See GOP Sexual Predators 324: Andy Savage.] Savage was suspended for a time but the church later asked her parents if they would mind if he came back. They minded.

The police were not informed.

325: Chris Conlee

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up

Chris Conlee was the pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He supervised Andy Savage [See GOP Predators 324: Andy Savage.] and when the news broke about Jules Woodson, he protected Savage by promoting the false framing that it was a consensual adult sexual encounter even though he knew otherwise. He knew of Savage’s past abuse when he hired him. He knowingly protected Savage and misrepresented him to his church. When Highpoint finished their investigation, they allowed Conlee to resign.

324: Andy Savage

Sexual Assault

Andy Savage sexually assaulted a seventeen-year-old girl when he was a youth pastor in 1998. At the time, she reported it to his supervisor the next day who decided since she complied with Savage’s coercion, she was a willing participant. She told her parents and enough of a fuss was raised that he was allowed…

324: Wesley Goodman

Sexual Assault

However, Wesley Goodman is a sexual predator and many people knew it and covered it up before he was even elected to office.

The Council on National Policy, a 501(c)3, was hosting a fundraiser for Wes Goodman, often described as a rising star. That seems illegal, but it not the focus here. During that event Goodman invited an 18-year-old who came with his parents up to his room after attending another party with Goodman and a group of young men, some of whom were bullied into coming by Goodman. At the end of the night, Goodman invited the young man to his room. He woke up in the middle of the night when Goodman unzipped his pants and began fondling him without his consent. Scared, he ran to his parents and told them what happened.

323: Ed Crane

Sexual Harassment

Ed Crane was co-founder of the Cato Institute. That makes him a Libertarian, not a Republican but until Trumpism, he was mostly aligned with Republicans. For example, they grade candidates based on taxing less and spending less, not on effectiveness of the spending or fairness of the taxation. The adage that says “a Libertarian is…

322: Nick Sauer

Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images

Nick Sauer is a Republican politician who once served on the Lake County Board in Illinois and represented the 51st district in the Illinois House of Representatives. He was a member of the House Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Task Force. I guess they wanted to hear from the predator’s side. He decided to post nude pictures of his ex-girlfriend. He also confessed to catfishing using her nude pics. He resigned immediately.

321: Mark Halperin

Sexual Harassment

Mark Halperin was a conservative news reporter who worked for ABC, Bloomberg, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS. He now works for NewsMax, a newish news channel founded for people who think FOX is too liberal. His journey from legitimate, legacy media to fact-adverse NewsMax is the result of being accused of sexual harassment and forcible touching by over a dozen women.

320: Michael Moates

Sexual Harassment, Solicitation of a Minor

Michael Moates is a right-wing blogger/journalist who founded D.C. Chronicle, a site that is now, appropriately, a porn site. He sometimes wrote for the Washington Examiner. He also ran for Congress, as a Libertarian, not a Republican. However, he describes himself as a life-long Republican in his most recent Twitter account. He keeps getting suspended.

He had to withdraw his candidacy when he got suspended for sexually harassing underage teens. Several women came forward with messages he sent them. I won’t reproduce them here because he sued or filed a DMCA on everyone. He lost all his suits and DMCA filings, but I don’t want the bother. You can read them in the articles.