Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Briggs allowed a man who was wanted for stalking by police to hide out at his home. When he saw a Sheriff’s vehicle driving by, he called and warned them that the castle doctrine allows him to defend his home. “I may have to shoot you.” he said.
Steve Marino was a Republican State Representative for Michigan District 24 until he was term limited out. He was replaced by a Republican. In 2021, he was removed from committee assignments and required to have an escort in the state capitol building after Rep. Mari Manoojian, whom he had dated the year before, filed a complaint about the harassing and threatening texts he sent her.
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.
In 2021, he was arrested for one count each of aggravated invasion of computer privacy, stalking, and theft by unauthorized taking as well as two counts of harassment. He was using a device issued to him by the school district. This arrest led to a second as they found child sexual exploitation material with children under twelve on his phone.
Ken Kurson is a friend of Jared Kushner, editing Kushner’s New York Observer. He was also a Giuliani confidante and a political consultant. He was nominated to a seat on the board of the National Endowment of the Humanities but withdrew claiming it was too much paperwork. In fact, the initial background check for all nominees uncovered that he was stalking and harassing three people. He was arrested on federal charges of cyber-stalking, installing a keystroke recorder, calling employers to make complaints about them, and more. One of the people he is accused of cyberstalking is his ex-wife.
Jack Tomczak has a 24-year history in Republican organizing and communications. With a stint as a conservative radio host and podcaster, he was for a time the communications director for the Minnesota Republican Party. That was when his ex-wife requested a restraining order two years after their divorce, alleging he was harassing and stalking her. TRO were granted in August and December of 2020. He now works for American Citizen Voting in Missouri. This is not a voting rights organization. They are trying to pass laws prohibiting communities from allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections.
Augustus Sol Invictus is a white nationalist associated with the Nazi group AtomWaffen. He used to be a Libertarian but changed to Republican after Trump was elected. He participated in Unite the Right and has a long history of threatening violence. He is alleged to have strangled his ex-wife and threatened her life with a gun. He was, however, acquitted of all charges because she was terrified of testifying after threats against her life from him and from other people in the white nationalist movements.
Robert Ray was a Whitewater prosecutor, the Independent Counsel that followed Ken Starr, wrapping up the investigation and publishing the final reports. He also pursued the Republican nomination for U. S. Senate in New Jersey in 2002, but withdrew.
Dan Clark was a precinct committee officer elected to the Clark County Republican Party Bylaws and Resolutions Committee with 70% of the secret ballot vote. Those voting were well aware that he is a convicted child predator who repeatedly snuck into a fifteen-year-old girl’s bedroom, gave her alcohol, asked her to marry him despite having a restraining order against him. He was 43 at the time.
Eric Lin was an avid Trump supporter and fascist ideologue. He claimed to thank God every day for Trump. He also harassed a Latina who waited on him once, sending her threats through direct message to kill her and all Latinos. His messages to her ran to 150 pages and were filled with threats of kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder. He tried to hire someone to kidnap her. She took the threats to the police and eventually Lin was arrested in Seattle.