Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Brian O’Toole was first elected to the Sunnyvale City Council in 1983. He served as mayor from 1985 to 1986 and was re-elected in 1989 for a two-year term. He was charged in July 1990, with molesting a boy under the age of fourteen for six years from 1983 to 1989. He met the boy through the Big Brother program.
He later pled guilty and was sentenced to six years.
James E. Dutschke, who preferred J. Everett Dutschke, ran in 2007 as the Republican nominee for Mississippi State District 16. He lost. He had some legal issues including a conviction for indecent exposure and an arrest for child molestation when he was arrested for sending ricin to President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, and Mississippi Judge Sadie Holland. Coincidentally, it was Judge Holland’s son who defeated him with more than twice as many votes (3551-1425.)
He was charged with fondling three underage girls at his taekwondo studio, one of whom was just 7 years old. He was arrested for sending ricin in April 2013. He tried to frame an Elvis impersonator for the ricin attack by quoting from his Facebook posts. He eventually pleaded guilty in federal court and was sentenced to 25 years for the ricin letters. He also pleaded guilty to state court to fondling a minor and was sentenced to 20 years for that to run concurrently with his federal sentence.
Kenneth Adkins was active in anti-gay politics in Jacksonville, FL, and someone the Republican party thought they could use to gain Black votes. After the Pulse Massacre, he tweeted “Been through so much with these Jacksonville Homosexuals that I don’t see none of them as victims. I see them as getting what they deserve!” Jacksonville.com June…
Former Sheriff Perry Grogan was featured in 1990 by Newt Gingrich as an example of Republican governance for his success in building a new jail under the anticipated cost. Newt Gingrich called him a friend. Still he lost re-election in 1992. In 1996, he was campaigning to get his job back when he was indicted with six counts alleging child molestation.
According to the victim and her uncle, in 1989 and 1990, when she was 10 and 11 years old, he bathed with and fondled her. Her father, who considered Grogan a friend, killed himself when she told him what happened. Her uncle confirms that her father was upset and said he had to confront Grogan. He explained the girl came forward six years later because she was grown up now. Still, she was only 17 when
In 1993, he was convicted of molesting an eight-year-old child. The victim said he molested her while playing hide and seek with her and his daughter. She was supposed to stay the night but ran home and told her mother what happened.
Michael T. McCourt was the Douglas County GOP County Chairman as well as the East Wenatchee Water and Sewer Commissioner. His wife, Sandra, sat on the East Wenatchee City Council from 2004 to 2018. He was sentenced to 51 months for molesting an 8-year-old boy. The statute of limitations had run out on several other incidents that go back as far as the 1980s. He served 45 of his 51 months.
Sherman Lee Criner, a GOP candidate for the Deleware state Senate, was accused of molesting a child. Because his wife is a judge, the investigation was carried out by the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) rather than local or county police who would be frequently appearing in court before the judge. Criner was a family friend of the alleged victim.
According to the paper, the prosecutor declined to file charges to protect the alleged victim.
Ron P. Broussard Jr. was one of Trump University’s staff. He was also a convicted child molester. Trump claimed the staff was hand-picked and half of them had financial and legal troubles. One of them was Ron Broussard, listed as staff or coordinator on five seminars, who was convicted of sodomy and indecent acts with a child.
Pastor Roy D. Bolden was the head of Providence, Rhode Island GOP, but was forced to resign when he was arraigned for molesting a child. A 21-year-old man came forward and claimed he was molested by Bolden since he was twelve years old and for several years after.
Joe McCarthy not only promoted the infamous Red Scare that led to purges in the State Department and Hollywood, he also began the Lavender Scare that did the same thing to homosexuals. Now, the anti-gay employment policies did not originate with him and some revisionist historians use that to argue that blaming him for the Lavender Scare is a smear. They are wrong. Joe McCarthy promoted the Lavender Scare and there is a transcript of him that proves them wrong.