Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Greg Lopez, former mayor of Parker, Colorado, was a candidate in the Republican primary for governor. He is adamantly anti-choice, even at the risk of a mother’s life. However, he was arrested after he knocked his pregnant wife to the ground and kicked her.
Ed Bayne was the mayor of Seven Fields, Pennsylvania, since 2006 until he was arrested for possession child sexual abuse material. Police seized all the computers at his home and found 24 items of child sexual abuse material including a video with a 9-year-old girl. They were alerted to someone downloading CSAM and traced it…
William Braddock was a candidate in the Republican primary to replace Charlie Crist in Congress. One of his primary opponent was Anna Paulina Luna, who eventually won the primary and the general election. During the campaign, Braddock began threatening to kill Luna. Luna went to court for a protective order claiming that Braddock threatened her…
Larry Rendall Brock Jr is an insurrectionist who breached the Senate. He also has a history of threatening violence against his ex-wife. For example, he wrote, “Do the right thing and kill yourself already.”
Brian Mast is a Congressman from Florida. He is an active presence on social media posting daily, often with belligerent and misleading statements. He has, however, apologized for joking about raping fifteen-year-olds. In 2020, he said “there is no room for joking about sexual violence.” Unfortunately, he was not talking about himself but his opponent.
James P. McClusky sentenced a school bus driver who confessed to raping a fourteen-year-old girl to probation, ten years probation, and designated him a Level 1 Sex Offender which meant he was not placed on the Sex Offender registry.
Childs owns J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm based in Massachusetts. A Republican, he’s a big donor to Republican candidates and lobbying organizations such as Club for Growth. So far this year, he’s given a little over $3.5 million to Republicans.
He was one of several influential, rich men who patronized a sex trafficking ring that imprisoned immigrant women, forcing them to live at massage parlors where they were forced to have unprotected sex with thousands of men, their compliance extorted with threats against their family back in their home country.
Seth Carey is a Maine Republican. He ran for DA for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties after a judge found that he had made unwanted sexual advances three times to a woman living in his home. He had lost his license so would be not allowed to actually practice the job he was running for. Despite these facts, he won the Republican primary though he lost in the 2018 General Election though he won 42% of the vote even though he was facing criminal charges and not allowed to practice law.
Tyler Smith, a member of right-wing militia group Patriot Prayer, was featured in the reality show in Season 3, Episode 4 of Doomsday Preppers, a show that amplifies the paranoid, reactionary, and the radical right. His group is called The Marauders because they plan to steal their supplies. They showed him with firearms which led to his arrest for illegal possession of firearms. He is not eligible to have weapons because he is a convicted sex offender.
National Geographic didn’t mention he was a convicted child molester but they did show him saying he was an apex predator. Perhaps he meant sexual predator. Is molesting a 14-year-old girl apex?
Matthew Demetrius Cooper is a member of Patriot Prayer, one of the far right militia groups “standing by” to wage war on the United States. When he was in Virginia and was charged with two counts of raping a child. He skipped out and has been living in Washington. He comes to Portland as a leading member of Patriot Prayer, participating in the Cider Riot attack, and bragged on Twitter about beating a trans woman with a bat. He tweeted, “Sucks for your retarded comrade, we should’ve ended them instead of let them live. Next time I’ll make sure they don’t make to a hospital.” He is identified as Deme Cooper in most news articles.