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126: Dan Johnson

Child Molestation, Sexual Assault

Dan Johnson was a Kentucky state representative when he was accused of sexual assault by a minor. The victim, who was 17 at the time, said she was staying in the living area of a church where Johnson was pastor. Johnson had been drinking, approached, kissed, and groped her under her clothes. He denied the…

125: Ed Murray

Sexual Assault, Sexual Misconduct

Ed Murray was the Wyoming Secretary of State and a likely contender for the next governor when two women accused him of sexual misconduct. One accused him of sexual assault while they were both working at a law firm. Another, the daughter of a former governor, accused him of forcibly kissing her when she was…

114: Cody Wilson

Child Rape, Sexual Assault

Cody Wilson of Texas is a gun-rights activist. He decided to short circuit the debate on regulating plastic guns by posting plans for making a gun on a 3D printer. A juvenile woman, under 17, reported to police that he had paid her to have sex and exchanged explicit photos with her. NBC News: 3D…

100: Glenn Murphy Jr.

Rape, Sexual Assault

Glenn Murphy Jr. was President of the Young Republican National Federation and Clark County Republican Party Chairman. At a state Republican party gathering, he performed oral sex on an unwilling man which sounds like rape to me. He was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to six years. The Advocate: 16 Anti-gay leaders exposed as…

78: Joshua Dickens

Familial Abuse & Violence, Sexual Assault

Joshua Dickens was elected constable in Faulkner County. In a jealous rage, he kidnapped a woman and tortured her, burning her with a cigarette lighter and beating her. He held her four and a half hours until she lied, confessing to seeing someone else, in hopes he would release her. He was convicted of torture,…

74: John Bryan

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault

John Bryan, a Republican city councilman in St. Petersburg, was accused by a woman who claimed Bryan began sexually abusing her while she was a minor and that he sexually assaulted his two adoptive daughters. When the allegations came out, he resigned from the City Council. Before the police arrested him, he killed himself. Fox…

73: Wilton Frederick Bland

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Assault

Wilton Frederick Bland ran as a Republican candidate for Mineral County Commission in West Virginia but lost about a year before he was arrested on 136 charges: 73 counts of possession of child pornography; 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly having sex with a child under age 11; nine counts…

71: Clifton Bennett (Sen.Ken Bennett)

Child Molestation, Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Pro-Rape Judge, Rape Culture, Sexual Assault

Clifton Bennett’s father is Ken Bennett, a Republican who has been in elected office most of the time since 1985. He’s running for Arizona Senate in the GOP primary now. In 2006, when his son was eighteen, Ken Bennett was President of the Arizona Senate. That position gave his son the sweetheart plea deal of…

70: E Ozwald Balfour

Child Rape, Rape, Sexual Assault

E Ozwald Balfour was a conservative radio host, founder of the Utah Republican Black Assembly, and a Utah Republican State Central Committee member, the latter even after he was arrested for sexually abusing women who applied for work at his media company. In the end, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 90 days…

48: Tim Nolan

Child Rape, Sexual Assault, Trafficking

Tim Nolan was a tough-on-crime judge, a Republican party activist, and a Trump campaign supporter. The story of his progress from “hanging judge” to felon is circuitous and centers on a bar he owned. But however he got there, Tim Nolan pleaded guilty to 21 counts of human trafficking, some of the cases involving minors.…