Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Matthew Chappell was a candidate in the Republican primary for Virginia House District 11 and came in third with 18.5% of the votes in the first round. Ranked choice voting dropped him out in the fourth and final round. He got 18.5% of ballots even though his past sexual misconduct as a police officer in Georgia was revealed before the election.
He got a 30-day suspension that was suspended unless he did it again. He did it again. He pursued a woman who had an adoption case before him, asking for intimate photos and getting her to see him at a hotel and have sex with him.
Kyle Biedermann was a Texas state representative from 2017 to 2023. He won the Republican primary and the general election despite court documents that allege he mentally abused his daughters and physically abused his wife. He is alleged to have gotten an erection while playing with his daughters. He confirmed that he slept nude with his daughters (ages 4 to 9). When ordered to stop, he put a bed by his bed for a daughter to sleep in as a reward. He was ordered to have no contact, not even by phone.
David G. Landfair was the Mayor of Gulf Breeze, Florida. Before that he was on the City Council for eight years. In 2019, an adult woman went back to her high school and told the Principal that a teacher whom she knew from high school was sending her messages on Seeking Arrangements, a website that specializes in older men finding younger women, a sugar daddy/sugar baby site. They began an investigation and found he was doing this on school time which resulted in discipline. They said he no longer worked there.
Tom McCullagh was a Republican primary candidate for a state House seat. However, he withdrew when the details of an investigation into his alleged grooming of an underage girl became public. A person reported that McCullagh gave the girl a bottle of vodka. When the police tried to extract the child’s cellphone data, they could not as the data was corrupted. As such, the thought the only probably charge was contributing to the delinquency of a minor. McCullagh was not questioned because the family did not want to pursue the matter.
Tom Mountain was the vice-chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party. He was forced to resign after TB Daily posted his comments about young girls and women on Twitter. They also posted his inappropriate sexual conversations with a catfish who pretended to be an Israeli model. The gross comments led to his resignation.
Tim Kapucian was an Iowa state senator who served three terms until 2021. According to the successful sexual harassment/discrimination lawsuit, Kapucian was present during and laughing along with the “boys will be boys” talk about women, including malicious gossip about a Democratic woman senator sleeping with an entire sports team. Multiple male staffers said he made inappropriate jokes.
Bill Anderson was included among the men making it a bad place for women to work by saying inappropriate things about women, but only when male staffers were presence. In his own deposition, Anderson said he walked away when people told inappropriate jokes.
When he was interviewed by the Des Moines Register, he said he didn’t recall anything inappropriate. “I guess I never experienced anything that would be described as toxic or inappropriate,” Anderson said. He resigned, not in disgrace, but to become the executive director of the Cherokee Area Economic Development Corp.