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Republican Familial Abuse & Violence (135 instances)

240: Steve Nunn

Familial Abuse & Violence, Murder
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Steve Nunn was a Republican state representative in Kentucky. His father was Governor Louis Nunn. He was elected 1990 and re-elected handily through 2004. He was unopposed from 1998 to 2004 but lost to a Democrat in 2006. He was appointed deputy secretary for Health and Human Services Cabinet by Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear.

In March 2009, he was placed on leave for a domestic violence incident with his former fiancée, Amanda Ross. She got an order of protection. In November 2009, he shot and killed her. The police found him at his father’s grave with his wrists slit. He shot at the police six times, but was taken into custody and sent to the hospital. When he recovered he was charged with her murder. Ironically, killing someone with a protective order carries the death penalty, the result of a bill he co-sponsored in 1998. He eventually pled guilty and was sentenced to life without parole. He was also ordered to pay over $24 million to her family. He collects his pension in prison.

220: Jason Priest

Child Abuse, Familial Abuse & Violence
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Jason Priest was a state senator from Red Lodge, Montana. He was a Tea Party Republican and was a standard issue far right pro-gun, anti-choice, “family values” Republican who clashed with more moderate colleagues. He chaired the Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee. Then he got in an argument with his estranged wife. In his rage, he threw his 4-year-old daughter across the room where she hit her head and was injured. In the end, he assaulted his daughter, his estranged wife, her boyfriend, and a police officer who had been called to the scene. He was charged with four felony assault claims but pleaded guilty to all four when they were amended to misdemeanors.

209: Schaeffer Cox

Familial Abuse & Violence, Murder, Uncategorized
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Schaeffer Cox was an unsuccessful Republican primary challenger for Alaska state House of Representatives. He got a respectable 37% of the vote in the primary. He was also involved in Ron Paul’s campaign for the presidency. He was very active in gun rights and was one of the founders of the Fairbanks Second Amendment Task Force. He is now in prison for conspiracy in a wild plan to kill several people.

He first got in trouble with the law for domestic violence. Originally he was charged with second-degree assault after his wife claimed he hit and choked her. He pled guilty to reckless endangerment in a deal for two years probation and a one-month suspended sentence.

202: David Hawk

Familial Abuse & Violence
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Rep. David Hawk got into an argument with his wife and struck her while she was holding their baby. He grabbed her by the arm, struck her in the face, and knocked her to the ground. He took the baby from her and went to a neighbor’s house while she ran to another neighbor’s house. The police were called. He was arrested. He was later convicted of misdemeanor reckless endangerment. Despite his conviction, he won reelection and is still in the Tennessee House of Representatives and has been thinking of running for Congress.

197: Scott Bundgaard

Familial Abuse & Violence
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Scott Bundgaard was the Arizona Senate Majority Leader. He was dating Aubry Ballard. While on the way home from an event, they got into an argument. He pulled over to the side of the freeway. He claimed she was hitting him and throwing his clothes out of the car. He claimed she had a gun. He was seen dragging her on the side of the road and she had cuts and scrapes on her legs. The police arrested her. They would have also arrested him but he claimed he had legislative immunity and could not be arrested while the legislature was in session.

Of course, this led to more scrutiny of his past and the discovery that he had been accused of domestic violence in the past by his then-newlywed wife who left him on their honeymoon after calling police to escort her to their rental so she could pack her things and leave. She had the marriage annulled.

He reached a plea deal on the reckless assault charge and pled no contest to a misdemeanor with no jail time. He resigned when the Senate took up an ethics investigation.

174: Chris Corley

Familial Abuse & Violence
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South Carolina state Rep. Chris Corley was one of the most ardent defenders of keeping the Confederate flag. After his fellow Republicans voted to remove the flag from the state capitol grounds, he sent them a Christmas card with a picture of the removed flag and the suggestion they “ask for forgiveness of all your sins such as betrayal.” It’s such a story, I included it below.

A year later, his wife confronted him about infidelity. He beat her so badly her head was bleeding. He held a gun to her head. He did this in front of their children. He took her phone so she could not call 911, though she cleverly used her Apple watch to call 911. The recording has their 2-year-old son saying “Please stop daddy.”

157: Scott DesJarlais

Familial Abuse & Violence, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Scott DesJarlais is a Tennessee Republican U.S. representative who has been exposed as a hypocrite on abortion, supporting his ex-wife’s two abortions. But that’s not why he is on the list of Republican Sexual Predators. He had sex with his two of his patients. Also with three co-workers and a pharmaceutical rep. But let’s focus on the patients. He prescribed medication to one of them. They are dependent on him and he has a position of trust and power that he violated. So far with impunity.

145: Eric Greitens

Child Abuse, Familial Abuse & Violence, Sexual Misconduct
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Eric Greitens was the governor of Missouri when he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman and using a photo he took of her while she was blindfolded to extort her silence. The telling thing was that members of his own party led the investigation and the demands for his resignation. Prosecutors made a deal to drop some charges against him if he resigned. He resigned.