Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Matthew Joseph Elliott was supposedly destined for a great future in Republican politics. Some people thought he would be governor of Iowa one day. He was elected governor at Boys State and later the head of the Iowa College Republicans. He worked on Romney’s campaign, as a legislative aide, and then as ED of the…
Brian Doyle was the deputy press secretary for the Dept of Homeland Security during the Bush Administration when he was arrested in an online sex sting where he chatted with a sheriff’s deputy posing as a child. He was charged with using a computer to seduce a child and transmitting harmful material to a child.…
Joshua Dickens was elected constable in Faulkner County. In a jealous rage, he kidnapped a woman and tortured her, burning her with a cigarette lighter and beating her. He held her four and a half hours until she lied, confessing to seeing someone else, in hopes he would release her. He was convicted of torture,…
Scott Eller Cortelyou was a conservative radio personality in Colorado when he was arrested for graphic sexual conversation with a police officer posing as a child. KUSA: Radio Personality arrested a second time All Access: Cortelyou arrested again Denver Post: Cortelyou pleads guilty in sex case
Larry Corrigan was a Republican activist in Washington state politics. He was deputy treasurer on Rep. David Reichert’s (R-WA) campaign for sheriff and a vocal supporter for his congressional campaign. He was caught in an internet sting, chatting online with a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl, and then he arranged to meet her…
Garrett Ventry was Iowa Republican Sen. Grassley’s communications aide and assigned to speak for the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Kavanaugh nomination. He abruptly resigned when asked about sexual harassment allegations against him. Previously, Ventry worked as a social media adviser in 2017 in the office of North Carolina House Majority Leader John Bell, who…
John Bryan, a Republican city councilman in St. Petersburg, was accused by a woman who claimed Bryan began sexually abusing her while she was a minor and that he sexually assaulted his two adoptive daughters. When the allegations came out, he resigned from the City Council. Before the police arrested him, he killed himself. Fox…
Wilton Frederick Bland ran as a Republican candidate for Mineral County Commission in West Virginia but lost about a year before he was arrested on 136 charges: 73 counts of possession of child pornography; 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly having sex with a child under age 11; nine counts…
Republican Hewart Lee Bennett was a youth minister in West Palm Beach when he was arrested for soliciting a 15-year-old boy. Someone called the police, reporting a suspicious vehicle. He told the deputy he was there to talk to children about being gay, trying to put them on the right path, not to be gay.…
Clifton Bennett’s father is Ken Bennett, a Republican who has been in elected office most of the time since 1985. He’s running for Arizona Senate in the GOP primary now. In 2006, when his son was eighteen, Ken Bennett was President of the Arizona Senate. That position gave his son the sweetheart plea deal of…