Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr went on a camping trip with his best friend and raped his best friend’s fifteen-year-old daughter after getting her drunk. He was a Republican member of the Wrightsvulle Borough Council and was asked to resign after he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to six months in prison and six months…
Jim Hammond is the Sheriff of Hamilton County, TN. He has created a culture of impunity, protecting deputies who rape and assault the public. One of his deputies has been indicted on 44 charges including rape, assault, and stalking. But this deputy did some of his worst crimes with other deputies. For example, Deputy Daniel…
Stephen David Rambler was the pastor of Wrightsville’s Church on the Rock, a successful growing ministry until he got into legal trouble on two fronts. The feds were investigating him for extortion, using the US mail no less. He placed ads in adult magazines soliciting photos that he then used to extort the person who…
Dennis Gallagher was a New York City Councilmember, representing Queens. He was accused of rape by a woman he met in a bar. According to her, he promised her a ride home but took her to his office instead and beat and raped her. He claimed it was consensual. Gallagher pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor…
Keola Childs was a Hawaiian county councilman who pleaded guilty to child molestation in a plea agreement that allowed him to serve only one year rather than the twenty he was facing. Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Ex-Big Isle official pleads guilty to child molesting
John Allen Burt was an anti-abortion activist who ran “Our Father’s House” that began as a shelter for unwed mothers but evolved into a boarding school for troubled teenage girls. He was convicted of molesting a fifteen-year-old girl in his care and sentenced to eighteen years in prison, where he died. What is infuriating about…
Keith Westmoreland, a Republican representative to the Tennessee state legislature, was arrested for indecent exposure in Tampa, FL. Children at the hotel where he was staying reported on three separate days that he exposed himself in the pool and hot tub. He killed himself. Family tragedy, including sexual abuse, often repeats through many cycles. His…
Andrew Buhr, Republican committeeman for Hadley Township in Missouri and an unsuccessful GOP nominee for the Missouri House in 2000, was arrested for statutory sodomy. He did not deny having sex with the thirteen-year-old boy but claimed he thought he was older. Enough on the jury thought it was possible to mistake a thirteen-year-old child…
John Gosek, former Mayor of Oswego, NY, was reported by a woman who worked as a monitor at a local school. He had asked her to find young girls he could have sex with. He offered to give the girls cocaine, alcohol, and ecstasy. Instead of setting him up with girls, she set him up…
Kevin Coan was St. Louis, Missouri’s top Republican election official when he was arrested for traveling to Illinois to meet up with a 14-year-old girl for sex. The girl turned out to be undercover law enforcement. While searching his computer, police also found child pornography. Dispatch-Argus: Police: Child Porn found on election official’s computer St.…