Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Michael Medlin is a former sheriff’s deputy and school resource officer in Johnston County, North Carolina. Together with his wife, he groomed one of her students. He was terminated as a school resource officer for inappropriate relationships with students.
James Ashley Taylor was elected to the Fort Pierce County Commission in 2024. In August, 2024, a mother in Evanston, Illinois, contacted local police to report than an adult man was carrying on inappropriate chats with her thirteen-year-old daughter and had sent nude pictures of himself. The conversations began when she was just twelve.
Kurt W. Schenk was a city councilman for Coatesville, Pennsylvania as well as pastor of a local church. A local blogger wrote up a history of his public activities wondering why local media were not covering his arrest for sexually assaulting a woman who is intellectually disabled.
Timothy Thomas Christensen McGhee was the Republican candidate for House District 45 in 2012 and for Senate District 30 in 2011.
In January, 2025, he was arrested and charged with stalking and taking liberties with a child.
Michael Tait is a contemporary Christian music star with nearly twenty albums of Christian rock music. He was one of the Evangelicals for Trump who rallied to support him. He also was one of the evangelicals who prayed for him publicly after the Ukraine scandal was revealed. He signed a letter denouncing Christianity Today for criticizing Trump over Ukraine.
He is on hiatus after three men came forward alleging he had groomed and sexually assaulted them, allegations Tait has said are “largely true.”
Joshua Dice was a teacher at Calvary Christian Academy as well as an employee of Calvary Baptist Church in Middleburg, Florida. He was arrested in June 2025, charged with using a computer to solicit a child for unlawful sexual contact, unlawful use of a two-way communication device and traveling to meet a minor for sex (rape.)
Gerald “Jerry” Cummings was elected Chair of the Oregon Republican Party in March 2025. A pastor at Haven Church in St. Helens, Oregon, he has long been active in the Oregon Republican Party before his election as Chair. However, he resigned soon after his election when it was revealed he groomed a teenager until she was old enough to get married and kept her under his control by threatening to rape teenagers and through domestic violence and marital rape.
Erik Sickinger was a councilman in the city of Irmo, South Carolina. He stepped up to serve as mayor pro tem in 2023. In March, 2025, he was accused of grooming and assaulting a 15-year-old boy. Specifically, he was charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, second degree, and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and a charge of luring, enticing, or attempting to lure or entice children. You can read the charges at Lexington County Eleventh Judicial Circuit Public Index. Just enter his name: Erik Kenneth Sickinger.
Ricci Lee Wynne rose to fame filming homeless people to shame them on the internet. He was a MAGA influence who was invited on FOX and other rightwing channels to complain about homeless people and crime in San Francisco.
Zachary Joseph Radcliff is a Christian musician, a church leaders, and a CPAC worship leader has been charged with eleven felony counts of sexually abusing children. He was a church leader at Oakwood Church, in Augusta Township, Michigan, but they have deleted all reference to him from their website, even deleting their initial statement expressing shock and dismay about the charges.