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271: Jack W. Gardner

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape

Jack W. Gardner was convicted of child molesting over thirty years before the Republicans ran him for office. He was the Millersville Council Vice-President and a GOP committeeman for several terms. Republicans are fond of arguing that pedophilia cannot be treated, but I guess it’s okay if you’re a Republican.

In 1970, he pleaded guilty. He was charged with assault with intent to ravish, corrupting a minor, and indecent assault of a minor. She was thirteen, he was twenty-four at the time. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced from three to 23 months for assault with intent to ravish and a year’s probation for all the rest. He was paroled after just three month.

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108: Joe Monteleone

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Solicitation of a Minor

Joe Monteleone was a Republican city councilman in Elyria, Ohio, as well as a pizzeria owner when he was charged with improperly touching three teen girls who worked for his pizza shop. Cleveland19: Trial Begins for City Councilman Charged with Sexual Imposition The Morning Journal: Councilman accused of touching young workers The Morning Journal: Convicted…

81: Donald Fleischman

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Solicitation of a Minor

Donald Fleischman was the Brown County, Iowa, Republican Party Chair when he was charged with felony counts of child enticement and exposing himself to a minor. He offered marijuana and alcohol to two minors, told them they could live with them if they ran away. The complaint alleges that Fleischmann fondled and performed sexual acts…

62: Carey Lee Cramer

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape

Carey Lee Cramer was a Republican Party campaign consultan. He made the anti-Gore ad that copied the 1964 Goldwater “Daisy” ad accusing Gore of giving nuclear secrets to China. The young girl in the ad was his stepdaughter and while filming the ad, he molested two young girls. A jury deliberated almost two days before…

60: John R. Curtin

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

John R. Curtin was a Republican committeeman when he hosted a beer party at a Stroudsburg, PA, motel and invited a 17-year-old young man and three boys aged 13 to 20 to drink beer. The seventeen-year-old got drunk and went out for a cigarette and Curtin followed him out, pulled down his pants, and molested…

29: Jon Matthews

Child Indecency, Sexual Misconduct

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…