Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Thomas James Brackett was a youth pastor at Tabernacle Christian Church in Baltimore County, Maryland, back in the Eighties. That is when he is alleged to have sexually abused two minors in his pastoral care. They were eight and ten at the time. He was twenty-one or twenty-two.
Jarl Rockhill, a member of Patriot Prayer, who pled guilty to a hate crime attack on IRCO, a Portland immigrant center. He is also a convicted sex offender. Jarl was charged with Sexual Abuse in the First Degree in 2002, and with Using a Child in a Display of Sexually Explicit conduct in 2003. He…
Patricia Kent was a teacher and ran a write-in campaign for county clerk/auditor in Washington County, Utah. Her message was pushing the Big Lie and promising accountable elections. She also talked about drag shows grooming children. She should know from grooming. She was allowed to resign her teaching job in 1996 after her inappropriate relationships…
Joshua Barnard is one of the Boogaloo Bois, an extreme anti-government group advocating for civil war without a clear ideology other than being pro-gun and pro-violence. Barnard was arrested for suspicion of breaking into a motor vehicle, looting, larceny, aggravated breach of peace, and instigating a riot. In June 2020, just weeks after that arrest, he was arrested again and charged with 11 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
As president of American Christian College, he used his power to have sex with college students. Although they were the age of consent, (one was sixteen) they were not in a position to refuse the college president. His position of authority made this statutory rape.
Among the more outlandish events is the story of two students who got married. Hargis performed the ceremony. On their honeymoon, they learned Hargis had slept with both of them.
Dave Estenson was the Republican nominee for State Senate District 31 in Wisconsin, he lost in a close race. The incumbent Jeff Smith received 50.4% while Estenson received 49.5%. Republicans had hoped to gerrymander District 31 to take out Smith, but perhaps reports of Dave Estenson’s sexual misconduct while he was in law enforcement tarnished…
Joe Lonsdale is a co-founder of Palintir, with Peter Thiel. He also founded an accounting software company and is one of the tech billionaires who finance the right. As a Libertarian, he most strongly supports Rand Paul. He was also a mentor for engineering students at Stanford, his alma mater. A former mentee, Ellie Clougherty sued him alleging sexual abuse and rape.
Gary Busey is an Oscar-nominated actor perhaps most famous now for his turn on Celebrity Apprentice and his vocal support for Donald Trump. In 2022, he allegedly sexual assaulted three women at a Monster Mania convention.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of criminal attempt/criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment.
David Broadbent is a Republican party donor and a gynecologist in Utah. Ninety-four women filed a suit against him alleging sexual abuse. Some of them went to Dr. Broadbent for a premarital exam, a common health visit for Mormon Women. For many women, Broadbent was their first and only gynecologist so they had no experience…
Jeff Ford was a teacher when he had a sexual relationship with a student. The student was of age, but the relationship remains an abuse of power and teachers having sexual connections with students is unethical.
Since then, he founded a nonprofit called Man Up and Go which is attempting to reduce fatherlessness through their “Authentic Masculinity Program, which equips men both internationally and domestically to be protectors of and providers for their families.” This has let to his role on Governor DeSantis’ Florida Faith-Based and Community-Based Advisory Council.