Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Ralph Shortey was an Oklahoma state senator and the state chair for the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. A culture warrior, he pushed the birther conspiracy about Obama and tried to pass a bill that would deny immigrants any civil rights. He was also sending and receiving child pornography and trafficking children. He met them online…
Once “Republican of the Year” and a big Republican donor, Mark A. Grethen was accused of sexually assaulting his children and convicted of Indecent Liberties with a Child by a Custodia, Forcible Sodomy, and Aggravated Sexual Battery. He raped his own children who were five and three at the time. He pleaded guilty to the…
Richard A. Delgaudio was a prominent GOP activist and fundraiser in northern Virginia before he pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge and was sentenced to two years probation. Delgaudio created child pornography, paying a sixteen-year-old girl to pose for him at a motel in Baltimore. There were pictures of him having sex with her.…
Donald “Buz” Lukens was a Republican Representative to the U.S. House from Ohio. In fact, John Boehner replaced him in the Republican primary in 1990 when he refused to resign after a scandal. He had also served in the Ohio Senate. Although he was alleged to have had sex with a girl from when she…
Peter Dibble was a Republican selectman in Stonington, CT, who was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor girl on at least 40 occasions over the course of several years, from when she was ten until she was thirteen. He pled no contest to lesser charges of child endangerment and was sentenced to a suspended…
Pastor Mike Hintz signed on to a Nebraska anti-pornography campaign petition which is what one might expect from a religious leader. He was also singled out in a speech by then-President George W. Bush talking about how much Hintz and his wife benefited from his tax plan. Meanwhile, he was arrested for having sex with…
Strom Thurmond was a U.S. senator representing South Carolina. He was an opponent of civil rights and gave the longest filibuster in US history in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. After he died, his daughter came forward. She was biracial, the daughter of a fifteen-year-old Black girl who worked for his family.…
Tom Shortridge was a Republican campaign consultant who, to put it bluntly, was not a nice person. For example, in 1998 he supported a primary candidate running against a woman who had been shot and said “Since when does being a victim qualify you for the legislature.” LA Times: Man Denies Guilt in Pornography Case
Philip Giordano was the Mayor of Waterbury, CT and a one-time Republican Senate nominee and has since been convicted of raping children and sentenced to 37 years in prison. Just the headlines on the long series of stories about him at the New York Times will turn your stomach. The FBI was investigating Giordano for…
Edison Misla Aldarondo was the Republican Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico. He had been indicted for extortion and money laundering and was out on bail when he was accused of drugging his step-daughter and her friend who was staying over and then raping the friend. He was also accused of raping his stepdaughter…