Author: Cajsa Lilliehook
258: Roger Rivard

Roger Rivard was a Wisconsin state representative for one term. His crass remarks regarding a local rape involving a 17-year-old raping a 14-year-old in the band room at school. He said “some girls rape easy.” This was, he claimed, his father’s advice. Thinking to explain the full context, he said:
“What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, ‘If you’re going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.’ So the way he said it was, ‘Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’
257: Billy Joe Turnage
256: Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher was a state representative in New Hampshire from 2014 to 2017. He resigned after The Daily Beast identified him as the founder of The Red Pill, a disgusting and misogynistic forum on reddit. He created many online pseudonymous account that linked back to his personal email. The first Daily Beast article shows multiple ways they tracked him from The Red Pill.
He posted hateful things like “Feminists are obsessed with rape because we live in a rape fantasy culture, where feminists wish they were hot enough to be rape-able,” When they tracked him down to ask, he wiped all his posts and went private on social media. He did continue, though, with a different pseudonym.
255: Greg Peterson

Gregory Nathan Peterson was an activist for the Utah Republican party. Two women alleged he took them to his cabin and raped them. A third claimed he attempted to rape her but gave in when she showed her gun. Two other women claimed he raped them in their homes. He was charged with kidnapping as well as rape. Two days after being released on bail he killed himself leaving a vindictive, self-justifying note.
254: Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent is a rock musician who actively supports Republican politicians. He’s threatened to kill President Barack Obama and was then invited to Obama’s State of the Union. He is a big Trump supporter and generally an awful human being. He’s also a pedophile which is brags about in his lyrics, adding the very true line, “It’s quite all right I asked your mama.”
253: James Woods

James Woods is a successful Hollywood actor (3 Emmys, 1 Golden Globe) who is a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and Republicans in general. He was a major source of election disinformation after the 2020 election contributing to the spreading of election lies that resulted in the Insurrection. He was also identified by actress Amber Tamblyn as a sexual predator, describing an incident when he tried to pick her and a friend up when she was underage. He disputes the claim and says she is lying. The incident was confirmed by the friend.
252: Neil Bush

Neil Bush is the fourth son of President George H. W. Bush, the brother of President George W. Bush, and the father of unsuccessful Congressional candidate Pierce Bush. He is one of the Savings & Loan grifters who was found to have made deals that involved many conflicts of interest that contributed to the failure…
251: John Peterson

John Peterson was a Republican politician in Pennsylvania serving eight years in local government before being elected to the state House in 1977, then to the state Senate in 1985, and then the US Congress in 1997 where he served until 2009. He was accused of sexual harassment by a page when he was in the state Senate. She filed a complaint alleging he grabbed her breast in the elevator. The Pennsylvania Senate’s investigator concluded that it probably happened, but was impossible to prove. In addition, three women said he tried to kiss them at work and three additional women asked for and got transfers because he made them uncomfortable at work. Those six cases were not investigated.
250: Dick Armey

Dick Armey was a U.S. Representative from Texas for eighteen years and House Majority Leader for the last eight. He was Newt Gingrich’s right arm and enforcer. Before Congress, he was an economics professor where three women who were students allege inappropriate conduct. One was so disturbed she left school until another professor offered to supervisor her program and keep her from Armey.


