Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
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.…
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…
David Swartz, a Republican Richland County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to felony sex abuse involving two teens, though he began abusing them when they were six or eleven years old. He was sentenced to just eight years in prison. The Lantern Project: Ex-County Commissioner Admits Sexual Assault of Girl
Anti-gay and anti-choice activist Howard Scott Heldreth was charged with rape and kidnapping a 16-year-old girl in 1992. He pleaded guilty to sexual battery and was sentenced to probation and registration as a sex offender.
Joseph Russell Dendy was a Georgia Republican power broker. As Chairman of the Cobb County Republican Party, the home county of former Speaker Newt Gingrich, he networked with the Republican party greats, working on many campaigns, including for Mike Huckabee who is such good buddies with child molesters Ted Nugent and Josh Duggar. Meanwhile, Dendy…
When Dennis Hastert was a serial sexual predator according to the judge who sentences him to 15 months in prison. He abused children between the ages of 14 and 17 while he was their teacher and coach. This is the same man who as Speaker of the House oversaw the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He…
Paul Dyal, a registered Republican and pastor at the Jacksonville Assembly of the Body of Christ, was arrested along with two of his friends and partners in crime for sexual battery of several children with allegations going back over thirty years. The two other men associated with the church, Vernon Williamson and Jerome Teschendorf, were…
Pastor William Henry Randall was the Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 3rd district in 1998. He lost. Randall was the pastor of St. Simon Baptist Church in Orange Park. The abuse began when a twelve-year-old girl began attending his church. He exploited the trust people put in their pastors to sexually assault this child…