Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Matt Gaetz is a current U.S. representative and a former Florida state representative representing the district where the dystopian planned-senior-community The Villages is located. He has been accused of creating a sex game where points are awarded for sleeping with women. He has also been accused of trafficking a minor child, paying her for sex with money, drugs, and alcohol.
Rene Pedrosa was a spokesperson for Miami Mayor Francis Suarez until he was charged with battery (groping) a minor and sending that minor a pornographic image. Those were state charges, then the federal government filed additional charges that include producing child pornography, receiving child pornography, and enticing a minor into sexual activity.
Jonathan Murray of Murray Energy, once the largest privately-owned coal company in America, was a Trump donor and vocal supporter as well as a long-time GOP donor. You can check the DeSmog link for the sorry history of the polluting, climate-change denying company. He has also been sued for molesting two children. In the first…
Paul Edward Acton Bowen was a prominent Alabama Evangelical religious leader. He founded Acton Bowen Outreach which still has an active internet presence promoting rightwing and religious leaders and publishing three to four articles a month. He is also a convicted child molester serving time in prison. He was sentenced to consecutive maximum sentences, more than 1,000 years in prison.
John Fickas was a Republican campaign consultant in California. He was also a volunteer high school track and field coach. He also raped students. He raped a 15-year-old and a 22-year-old former student while they were unconscious. His third victim was 42. He raped a 15-year-old assigned to volunteer with him on campaign duties twice.…
Jason Brothers was a traveling Evangelist preacher who raped a child in 2012 but did not face justice until 2019 when he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and avoided all jail time. His lawyer, David Ralston (412) used his position as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives to delay the trial so long the prosecutor thought it unlikely witnesses would have clear memories.
He repeatedly raped a 14-year-old girl and got probation.
Jeffrey Short was an Asher, Oklahoma, city councilman and a former ICE agent. He was indicted for the rape of two minor children. He was arrested the day after the parents reported the assaults to the police. In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security substantiated that a different child, a 14-year-old claimed he preyed on her. Allegedly, he showed sexual exploitation to minors in his ICE office. He was never charged with those incidents.
Harry Thomas was a conservative New Jersey pastor. He founded the Creation Festival, a Christian musical festival and Come Alive, a missionary organization. He was convicted of raping four children (one less than ten years old) and inappropriate contact with a fifth. He was sentenced to twenty years without parole, a sentence reached in a plea deal.
John Martin was the head pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church, a conservative anti-gay church. He confessed an “affair” to his wife, which is an odd way of describing child molestation. He then admitted it to the church and church leaders went to the police. “The Lighthouse Baptist Church in Florence is an extremely socially conservative…
Stephen Bratton was a Southern Baptist pastor in Texas. He supported a bill that would charge women who had an abortion with murder. In 2019, he was arrested for repeatedly raping a minor child from 2013 to 2015, starting when she was just 13. He admitted guilt to his wife and three pastors at his…