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…
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
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…
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…
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,…
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…