Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Paul Ingram was the Republican Party Chairman in Thurston County, Washington. He was also the Chief Civilian Deputy of the sheriff’s department. He was accused of rape by his two daughters and his son. He confessed and was sentenced to twenty years. This is a strange and problematic case. His confession included talk of satanic…
Earl “Butch” Kimmerling and his wife Saundra were foster parents. Craig Peterson was a gay man who wanted to adopt children and was approved to adopt four siblings, three boys and a girl. The girl’s foster parents, the Kimmerlings, were anti-gay and raised a stink. Earl Kimmerling said gay adoption was against God’s will and…
Jon Matthews was a conservative radio host who also wrote opinion columns for the weekly Fort Bend/Southwest Star. He was malicious in attacking political opponents such as calling the Sugar Land mayor Mayor Osama. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to indecency with an eleven-year-old child, a neighbor girl who came over to play with his…
Rev. C. Stephen White, more commonly known as “Brother Stephen.” preached against Muslims, LGBTIQA people, and other things deemed sinful by the hardline evangelical right. He often focused on ministering to youth, organizing basketball games and even dressing up as Caleb the Clown. He also had an active campus ministry. He was arrested after asking…
John Hathaway was a primary candidate for the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate in 1996. The seat was open after the retirement of Sen. William S. Cohen. Also running in that primary, were Susan Collins and Robert Monks. During the campaign, word got out that in Alabama he had been accused of…
Robert Bauman was a Republican congressional representative from Maryland. In 1980 he was arrested and charged with solicitation of a minor, a sixteen-year-old boy. He was allowed to plead innocent and have the charges dismissed in a plea deal that required him to enter a court-supervised rehabilitation program. He blamed his problems on alcohol. He…
Beverly C. Russell Jr. was the stepfather of Susan Smith, the notorious woman who drowned her children. He was active in Republican politics and the Christian Coalition, the rightwing evangelical political association. He was also sexually abusing his stepdaughter Susan. She first tried to kill herself when she was thirteen. She told a school counselor…
Mark Foley was a popular Republican Representative when, in September 2006, a Congressional page revealed texts that Foley was sending him, they were sexual in nature and inappropriate with Congressional page interns, a form of sexual harassment. He had done this several times and pages had complained and reported in the past, so the scandal…
Rep. Dan Crane was an Illinois representative to the U.S. House of Representatives where he had an affair with a 17-year-old girl in the Congressional page program. He ran for re-election and was defeated. Ironically, a year before his actions were revealed he commented that people who have affairs with pages should be punished. He…
Randal David Ankeny was a political activist and attorney in Colorado. He was a volunteer coordinator for Republican Governor Bill Owens’ reelection campaign. He also a regional representative for the Governor’s Economic Development Office. In 2001, he was convicted of attempted sexual assault of a 13-year-old and served two years in prison. In September 2006,…