Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Kevin Rinke is a former auto dealer who changed careers in 2009 and began working for an organization that works to rehabilitate people with traumatic brain injuries. He ran in the Republican primary for Michigan governor. He came in second with 21.5% of the Republican vote. He says he will run again. This is despite the many allegations of sexual harassment from people who worked with him.
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 has been accused of sexual misconduct and his companies have been accused of fostering and environment with rampant sexual harassment by several women. In 2018, SpaceX paid $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim. A flight attendant complained that he exposed himself, touched her without consent, and offered to buy a horse for a sexual act. She felt that her refusal led to a retaliatory decrease in her assignments and sued. Musk denies the incident happened in spite of the settlement.
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.
Ken Kratz was the District Attorney of Calumet County, in Wisconsin. He became infamous for his prosecution of Stephen Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey in the second murder case after Avery was exonerated. This was covered in the Making a Murderer documentary. In spite of that, he kept his job, but he was forced out when people learned he coerced domestic violence survivors who needed him to prosecute their abusers.
Ravi Zacharias was the head of an international ministry. Originally a supporter of Marco Rubio for President, he switched to supporting Trump. When he died, Mike Pence spoke at his funeral. Allegations of sexual misconduct were made before his death, but it really blew up when Christianity Today released a report detailing his sexual harassment of women who work at massage parlors.
Alan Moran was serving his second term as a city councilman in Diamondhead, Mississippi, when he was appointed mayor pro tempore in July 2021. He seemed to following his father’s career. His father is State Senate Phillip Moran.
Then he was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors, simple assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This seems inadequate to the circumstances. Even Moran remarked at the time, “That’s it?”
Jose “Pepe” Diaz was the mayor of Sweetwater, Florida before serving twenty years on the county commissioner. He has termed out and announced in February 2023 that he will run for Sweetwater mayor again. He was sued by a city employee who claimed he made inappropriate sexual comments including suggesting she shake her hips at a business meeting. After she filed a complaint, he fired her.
One of the people he prescribed opioids for was not only his second cousin and employee, but she was also his lover. This amounted to an abuse of power and officially improper prescribing. If she needed him to prescribe or needed the job, did she have free agency?
Neil Gardner was the Highway Superintendent in Stephentown, New York. In March, 2022, he settled with a woman who sued under New York’s Child Victims Act. The woman claimed he sexually abused her from the age of twelve and that he took explicit photos of her “that he would brag about and sell.” A second woman came forward with a similar experience of being repeatedly raped as a child.