Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Lyndon J. McLeod was a misogynist who ranted in the manosphere about women and how the strong need to control or kill the weak. He wrote three books under the name Roman McClay that named the people he set out to kill, though when people reported to the Denver Police Department that he really intended to kill the people named in his novel, they did not take the warning seriously.
Barry Morphew’s dead wife cast a ballot. It was one of the examples of voter fraud that was pointed to as proof the election was stolen. It turns out that Barry Morphew cast the ballot. It was a vote for Trump.
He is a white supremacist who frequented sites like Stormfront where he became radicalized. He decided to start the Second American Revolution and built some pipe bombs for a planned terrorist attack. For that he was sentenced in 2018 to five years in prison, but he was released in 2020. He applied for compassionate release so he could go home and help his wife who had COVID and take care of the children.
So he went home. A bombmaking white supremacist who wanted to overthrow the government was let out to help his wife. He stabbed her twenty-seven times. He led authorities on a three week manhunt before being captured. While waiting for his trial, he attacked two corrections officers and attempting to escape.
Thomas Bruce was an Evangelical pastor who frequently ranted about his support for Trump. He was a fan of Laura Ingraham as well. He founded an Evangelical church in 2003, left it in 2007, and worked at various ministries and churches since then.
Steven Pankey ran for governor as nominee of the Constitution Party in 2014. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls the Constitution Party the most extreme right party in the U.S. In 2018, he ran in the 2018 Republican fubernatorial primary. He lost. Two years later, in 2020, he was charged with the kidnapping and murder of a twelve-year-old girl. In November, 2022, he was convicted.
Scott Beierle was a member of FSU Republicans and the Facebook group We Are Conservatives. He also was an open misogynist and racist who posted hate-filled videos on YouTube ranting against women and interracial marriage. He admired Elliot Rodger, the man who killed six and wounded fourteen in California. He was forty years old and ranting about girls who slighted him in eighth grade to the present.
He was fired as a substitute teacher for inappropriately touching a middle school girl. There were regullar complaints about him being creepy.
Before he entered a Florida yoga studio and killed two people and wounded four, he was arrested for groping women and prosecutors dropped the charges.
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.
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.
Matt Baker was a widely respected Baptist minister in Waco, TX. Waco, home of Baylor University, is for Southern Baptists a sort of center of faith. In 2006, his wife Kari Baker died. It was ruled a suicide and there was no autopsy. He claimed she was depressed over the death of their daughter and wanted to be with her.
Her parents did not believe she killed herself and hired a detective who found a motive for murder. Her body was exhumed and her death was ruled a murder by asphyxiation. It was discovered that Baker was a serial predator with a series of accusations of molesting underage women, sexual assault, and attempted rape. He also was in love a young parishioner.
Ted Bundy was a serial killer who raped and murdered. He confessed to thirty-six murders. He is infamous and there are movies and mini-series about him, so I won’t detail his crimes. They are many and manifest. Politically, he was fairly active in Republican politics. He worked for Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential and re-election campaigns for…