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Republican Enabling (51 instances)

626: Shane Anderson

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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Shane Anderson was the treasurer of the North Dakota District 24 Republicans. He also was the chairman of the recall effort to punish Rep. Dwight Kiefert, a fellow Republican. This is after the local Republicans already voted to censure Kiefert.

What did Kiefert do that was so terrible as to merit censure and recall? He voted with two-thirds of the other North Dakota Republicans to expel sexual harasser Luke Simons. Shane Anderson, who has a local minister’s license at the United Pentecostal Church International, is leading the effort to punish Kiefert for voting to expel an abusive, harassing, sexual predator.

542: Joe Scarnati

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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Joe Scarnati was a Republican state senator in Pennsylvania. He served as President pro tempore for thirteen years until his 2020 retirement. During that time, he was on the side of the victimizers and not the victims of sexual abuse. After the 2020 election, as one of his last actions as a retiring Senator, he forced through a vote to not confirm a second term for the state victim’s advocate, a woman who allegedly advocated too hard for the victims of the Catholic church abuse scandal.

515: Loren Culp

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Loren Culp is a former police chief. He came in second in the open primary for governor, a Republican running against Democratic incumbent Jay Inslee of Washington. He lost. He came in third in the open primary for the 4th Congressional District in Washington, putting him out of the race. He also cost the city of Republic, Washington, $275,000 by bungling a child sexual assault case. He decided he didn’t believe the child and threatened her with prosecution.

514: Marcie Adkins

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Marcie Adkins was a Florida primary candidate for the State Legislature. She hired a campaign manager whose criminal record is disturbing. He was charged with rape but pled to a lesser charge. He was charged by Cherokee Indian Police with leaving his 6-year-old child in a car while he was in a casino gambling. He pled guilty to beating his wife. When asked about doubling down, she said she would triple down.

487: Richard Bucci

Enabling
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Richard Bucci is a Catholic priest who took it upon himself to excommunicate forty-four Rhode Island legislators who voted to codify abortion rights. He sent out a notice informing the public that the named people could not receive communion, witness a marriage, read during a funeral, or serve as godparents. For him, abortion is worse than pedophilia. “Pedophilia never killed anyone.”

478: Matt Bevin

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Matt Bevin was the governor of Kentucky. After he lost to Andy Beshear in 2018, he pardoned several people as he was leaving office. There were 428 pardons, many of relatives of his donors. He explained the pardons were motivated by his strong belief in second chances. While the governor had the absolute right to pardon anyone he pleased, some of his pardons were particularly controversial, particularly his pardon of a child molester.

412: David Ralston

Enabling
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For example, he delayed the trial of child rapist Jason Brothers eight times over seven years until the prosecutor felt he had no choice but offer a deal. So Brothers admitted to rape and got probation. In another case, a man with a long history of domestic violence beat up another woman, he hired Ralston and brags about knowing Ralston will just delay his trial.

350: Alexander Acosta

Enabling
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Alexander Acosta is an Republican politician. He began his career clerking for Justice Samuel Alito before getting hired by the world’s largest law firm Kirkland and Ellis, specializing in labor law. He did some teaching in labor law as well, before he was appointed to the National Labor Relations Board by George W. Bush. He…

331: Craig Rowland

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Craig Rowland, Bingham County, Idaho’s Republican sheriff, was asked by a reporter about an Idaho bill that would require local police and county sheriffs to submit DNA evidence collected from rape victims within 30 days so it can be analyzed. The bill passed unanimously. It was in response to an Idaho Statesman investigation that found…

325: Chris Conlee

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up
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Chris Conlee was the pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He supervised Andy Savage [See GOP Predators 324: Andy Savage.] and when the news broke about Jules Woodson, he protected Savage by promoting the false framing that it was a consensual adult sexual encounter even though he knew otherwise. He knew of Savage’s past abuse when he hired him. He knowingly protected Savage and misrepresented him to his church. When Highpoint finished their investigation, they allowed Conlee to resign.