Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Jonathan Newell, a Republican, was the circuit court judge for Caroline County in Maryland, when he took a young boy. The boy discovered a hidden camera in the bathroom and his parents went to the police. The police interviewed other boys he had invited hunting and they all told of stripping naked to be checked for ticks.
Ed Gray is the former Mayor of Gulf Breeze, FL. He also ran in the Republican primary for HD2, but lost. He pleaded no contest to eleven charges starting with eight counts of video voyeurism (he recorded teen boys in the shower,) one count of illegally installing a tracking device, one count of stalking, and one count of intercepting communications.
Travis Brauer worked for Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin. While on the job, he attended a legislative meeting. Seated on the floor because the room was packed, he was seen taking upskirt photos of a woman. She reported it to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol which was desultory in its response. She also wrote a letter to Governor Fallin. By the time the man was questioned, he had deleted the pictures though his search history showed he had recently researched how to permanently delete photos. He was charged with submitting false testimony and destroying evidence. After two years of legal wrangling, he pled guilty and was given 80 hours of community service.
Larry Weinstein was a Northampton Township Supervisor and the campaign manager for GOP Rep. Scott Petri. He and his girlfriend were charged with drugging a woman so they could film her naked, taking pictures of their body parts and of Weinstein with the woman. The police say there was also a second victim whose photos were on his iPad They pleaded guilty. He blamed a head injury reducing his impulse control, though the judge pointed out there was nothing impulsive about this crime. He also pleaded guilty to invasion of privacy for the photos of the second woman.
Anthony Silva was elected mayor of Stockton, California, in 2012. From 2004 to 2008, he was on the school board for Stockton Unified School District. Stockton’s local elections are nonpartisan but local media identify him as a Republican. In 2015, the FBI confiscated his phone in an investigation into financial improprieties. They discovered a video made at a youth camp Silva used to run. He was providing alcohol and playing strip poker with minors. They let the local police know and eventually the police arrested him.
Caleb Bailey was chosen as a Trump convention delegate representing Maryland’s Fifth District. He sent a package through the US mail with 300 rounds of ammunition in it. The package broke open. He tried to ship five packages containing ammunition and explosives through the mail. When they got a search warrant, they found a bunker with all sorts of illegal weapons, including a machine gun. They also found materials that sexually exploited children.
When he was indicted, he was charged with using a minor to “engage in sexually explicit conduct to produce child pornography.” The DOJ announcement below is more specific. Suffice it to say his sixteen year plea agreement was a gift.
Nicholas Kettle was a Republican state senator in Rhode Island. He was arrested on charges of video voyeurism and extortion after his former long-time girlfriend filed charges. He was also charged with extorting a page by threatening his job unless he had sex with him. He resigned from office.
He shot pics of his then-girlfriend and sent them to a friend in New Hampshire. He took a plea deal and apologized to her in court. He was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence.
The extorting sex case was dropped for two reasons. The page refused to return to Rhode Island to testify and Kettle produced chat logs of the page and him talking over several months, conversations that were flirtatious and friendly. This was perceived as exculpatory and it well might be. However, there are many examples of people who remained friendly with people who assaulted them because of the power dynamics
Derek Walker was running in the Republican congressional primary in Pennsylvania when right before the 2008 primary, he was charged with burglary and criminal trespass for breaking into her home to tape her with another man. They claim he said, “This video is going to put an end to your job with the school district,” …
Bruce Barclay, a Republican who had just been elected to a second term as Cumberland County Commissioner, had several consensual sexual encounters with sex workers. That does not merit inclusion on this list because it was consensual. However, the sex workers did not consent to be secretly recorded. This was discovered in an investigation into…