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Republican Rape (100 instances)

232: Thomas Ravenel

Rape, Sexual Assault
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Thomas Ravenel was the State Treasurer of South Carolina when he was convicted of buying cocaine to distribute. In 2008, he was sent to prison for ten months. He then went on to star in the reality TV show “Southern Charm.” He ran for the US Senate in 2014. In 2018, one woman alleged he sexually assaulted her mother but she amended her suit to withdraw that accusation. She also accused the other woman who came forward of lying.

Ravenel’s children’s nanny, accused him of sexual assault and rape. Ravenel pled guilty to 3rd degree sexual assault and was given a 30-day suspended sentence and fined $500. He also settled a civil suit with the nanny by donating to a charity for sexual assault survivors so she supported his minimal sentence. Another woman shared allegations of him flipping a switch and trying to physically intimidate her.

231: Al Harrison

Extortion, Hostile Workplace, Rape
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Al Harrison was the Gulf County Florida sheriff. He used this position as sheriff to force imprisoned women to have sex with him. That is rape. One of the women whom he raped six times also alleged he threatened her with a gun. US. Marshals took him into custody, charged with the federal crimes. He was charged with ten misdemeanor counts of violating their civil rights. Prosecutors said the charges are misdemeanors because federal law requires serious bodily injury for a civil rights violation to be a felony. Why is rape not considered a serious bodily injury?

227: Joe Fain

Rape
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Joe Fain was a Washington state senator. Inspired by Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Candace Faber came forward alleging Joe Fain had raped her eleven years earlier in 2007. She told her parents about the rape in 2009. She wrote a blog post not naming her attacker but describing the assault. She told other people about it and has a photo from that night with Joe Fain. This was not a simple allegation without supporting evidence.

Since his accuser does not support incarceration but prefers restorative healing as justice, she will not press charges, hoping that she can heal and so can Fain. This means absent a Senate investigation, there will be no police investigation.
The Washington Senate approved a bipartisan investigation, but Republicans rejected every investigator proposed. When Fain lost the general election, the investigation was suspended since they could not agree on an investigator. The allegation remains uninvestigated like the majority of rapes that occur.

184: Stephen Dalton Baril

Rape, Rape Culture
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Stephen Dalton Baril was a student at the University of Virginia when he raped a fellow student. He entered an Alford Plea, admitting there was enough evidence to convict him but still claiming innocence. He faced jail time but got a suspended sentence. While he did not have institutional power at the time, his grandfather was a former Virginia governor and his father was a former candidate for Attorney General.

149: James Tracey, Jr

Rape, Sexual Assault
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While James Tracey, Jr. was running for the state legislature in Maine in 1994, he was also facing rape charges in Rhode Island from 1992. He was alleged to have raped an 18-year-old fellow student at the University of Maine. They were attending a hockey game in Providence where it happened. He actually won the primary despite the charges though he lost the general. He then pleaded no contest.

146: Robert Kerns

Rape, Sexual Assault
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Robert Kerns was the chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party in Pennsylvania. He was charged with three counts of indecent assault, two counts of aggravated indecent assault, one count of rape, one count of sexual assault, and one count of simple assault. He took an Alford plea to a lesser charge of misdemeanor indecent assault. An Alford please is like pleading no contest except the defendant claims to be innocent but acknowledges he would be convicted based on the evidence.

128: Nick Miccarelli

Familial Abuse & Violence, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
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Nick Miccarelli was a state representative in Pennsylvania. He was accused by a GOP political consultant of sexually assaulting her. A state representative filed for a restraining order against him, alleging he held a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. Both women asked for no prosecution, not wanting to be in court…

114: Ted Bundy

Murder, Rape
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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…

102: Leonard Ray Owens

Rape
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Leonard Ray Owens was a anti-gay pastor in Fort Worth, Texas, when a woman who attended his church had a miscarriage. She went to her pastor for counseling and he accused her of having demons inside her. So he raped her. My Plainview: Pastor accused of rape under guise of casting out demons Religion News…

101: Robert Holland

Rape
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Robert Holland, Republican, was Chairman of the Bedminster Township Supervisors. His day job was the head groundskeeper at a local nursing home where he raped a 92-year-old woman with dementia. He claimed it was consensual, though a woman with dementia cannot consent. He was convicted. The Morning Call: Bucks official charged in sex attack on…