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Republican Sexual Misconduct (100 instances)

551: Steven Sumner

Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Coercion, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Misconduct
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Steven Sumner was a Republican county councilman for Madison County, Indiana. He is also the pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church. He was charged with Child Seduction which means Sumner was in some way the child’s guardian, adoptive parent, adoptive grandparent, custodian, or stepparent. Other charges include child molestation, contributing to delinquency, sexual battery, sexual misconduct, as well as possession of child sexual exploitation material. According to the State Police, a child, younger than sixteen, told them he gave her alcohol and performed sexual acts on her and asked her to reciprocate. Additional charges were added involving a child under 14. The trial is set for February 27, 2023

521: C Davis

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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C Davis was a Republican candidate for Thurston County Commissioner in Washington. Several women complained of his approaching them, making inappropriate sexual comments. He even approached girls as young as twelve. He claimed he was looking for a wife.

510: Madison Cawthorn

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Madison Cawthorn was a U.S. Congressman famous for abusing trees. He was elected to Congress in 2020 and is the youngest member of Congress. With his election, there is greater attention paid to his biography which is full of exaggerations and outright lies. He only attended Patrick Henry College before dropping out, but several women who attended college with him have brought forward allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. Two women accuse him of forcibly kissing and touching them. His sexual misconduct was so well-known that 150 former classmates signed onto an open letter arguing his conduct was disqualifying.

503: Ed Henry

Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Ed Henry is a journalist, a one-time White House Correspondent. He went from CNN to FOX and now is on Real America’s Voice, a far-right streaming channel run by Robert J. Sigg. He was fired by FOX for sexual misconduct after they hired an outside firm to investigate allegations against him. Based on those findings,…

466: Michael Ferro

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Michael Ferro was Chairman of TRONC, the Chicago Tribune publishing company and a big Republican donor. He was forced out after allegations of sexual misconduct were published by Fortune magazine. Two different women recounted seeking an investment in their firms when he made physical advances on them, forcible kissing one and groping another’s breast.

463: Eric Dudley

Sexual Abuse, Sexual Misconduct
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Eric Dudley was an Episcopal priest who left the church in 2005 because they promoted a gay man to the role of bishop. He then went on to found his own church, St.. Peter’s, in opposition to inclusion of LGBTIQA in the church. In 2018, he was forced out because he used his position to sexually abuse young men. In 2021, he opened a new church

430: Paxton Singer

Sexual Misconduct, Solicitation of a Minor
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Paxton Singer was an anti-gay youth minister at Harvest Bible Chapel in Aurora, Illinois. He was convicted of disorderly conduct for sending text messages to a minor. He was originally accused of soliciting a minor but was acquitted of that while found guilty for texting him about his underwear and sleepovers, texts that alarmed the…

345: C. John McCloskey

Sexual Assault, Sexual Misconduct
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C. John McCloskey is a Catholic priest of Opus Dei, the controversial Catholic organization, who was a sort of celebrity converter. He was known for converting several prominent conservative politicians to Catholicism including Newt Gingrich, Sam Brownback, Bob Novak, Larry Kudlow, and Bernard Nathanson, a co-founder of NARAL who became an anti-choice activist. In 2005, Opus Dei paid a $977,000 settlement to a woman who claimed he groped her several times in 2002 when she sought help for marital issues and depression.

344: Rod Hamilton

Sexual Misconduct
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Rod Hamilton is a state representative in Minnesota. He is retiring this year. In 2018, he was accused by a young woman of sexual misconduct, unwanted and nonconsensual touching and kissing. He had been much admired by her because of his advocacy for survivors of sexual assault. She is a sexual assault advocate. When there was a snowstorm that made it impossible for her to drive the more than 200 miles home, he offered to let her stay at his apartment and there he kissed her and touched her even though she had previously told him as a rape survivor that she did not like to be touched. She felt trapped and assaulted, though she makes clear that the misconduct was limited to touching and kissing.

339: Clint Reed

Sexual Misconduct
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Clint Reed was the Arkansas Republican Party director before he was hired by Sen. Mark Rubio as his Chief of Staff for sexual misconduct. Rubio was made aware of the misconduct, did an investigation with his general counsel, found there were some threats of withholding employment benefits and improper conduct between a supervisor and subordinates. Reed was fired the next day.