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1538: Michael Whatley

Michael Whatley was the chair of the Republican National Committee. Currently, he is running for U. S. Senate with Trump’s endorsement. He is pushing a tough-on-crime agenda, while he has been instrumental in helping a former felon and child rapist secure leadership positions in the North Carolina GOP.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Enabling, Rape Culture, Uncategorized

1499: Gary Cannon

Gary Cannon, a Trump donor, was the President of the Board of the Oregon Coast Military Museum in Florence, Oregon. His son, Geoffrey Cannon, who has no party affiliation,was arrested and charged with child sexual abuse. Geoffrey was the museum’s director. When the minor’s family addressed the Board, Cannon said she knew what she was doing and equally offensive blaming the victim to excuse his son raping a minor.

1159: Alan Placa

Alan Placa was Rudy Giuliani’s fraternity mate and has been his close friend ever since. He has been accused by two men of molesting them. When Placa was suspended after the first accusation, Giuliani pronounced his innocence and hire him at his firm, Giuliani Partners where he continues to work.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up

1114: Michael James Shover

Michael James Shover is the pastor at Pella’s Christ the Redeemer Church. He was at the Iowa State Capitol. He got in a shouting match with LGBTIQA protesters and said they were all devoid of morals. He then asked “Why is pedophilia wrong?” The video went viral and he claims criticism is out of context and that it was a rhetorical question. Maybe so, but why does he entertain the question at all?

1078: Jana Bradford

Jana Bradford claimed a tough-on-crime record in her successful campaign for Prosecuting Attorney in the Ninth Judicial District in Arkansas. That may be true, so long as the criminal is not her uncle, instead she spent years using her influence to help him evade justice again and again.

Trigger warning because of scope of child sexual abuse.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up

1041: Fulton Brock

Fulton Brock was a Maricopa County Supervisor. He is accused of using his influence with former Sherriff Joe Arpaio to protect his wife and daughter who were accused of sexually abusing a young boy for three years. Their daughter is alleged to have started abusing the boy when he was thirteen. He says they began grooming him when he was eleven.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Abuse

986: Christopher Schroder

Christopher Schroder was a Cincinnati police officer. In January 2023, he pleaded guilty  to five misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty. During more than a decade serving on the Personal Crimes Unit, he failed to turn in rape kits and DNA swabs, performed inadequate investigations of crimes with vulnerable victims such a minors and people with developmental disabilities, and sometimes performed no investigation whatsoever. There were 47 cases of dereliction and a 48th by the time the case came to court.