Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Arizona Rep. Trent Franks harassed his office staff asking them to be a surrogate to bear his child. He and his wife already had twins from surrogacy eight years earlier. I would feel more sympathetic if it weren’t that he retaliated when one woman rebuffed him and that another said he claimed to be in love with her. Also, having gone through surrogacy before, I would presume he knows it isn’t about asking your staff to let you get them pregnant.
Don Shooter was an Arizona state representative. Several allegations were made against him alleging sexual harassment and a hostile work environment. There was an investigation that determined many of the allegations were credible. The Speaker of the House, also a Republican, removed him from committee assignments. He was later expelled
Clifton Bennett’s father is Ken Bennett, a Republican who has been in elected office most of the time since 1985. He’s running for Arizona Senate in the GOP primary now. In 2006, when his son was eighteen, Ken Bennett was President of the Arizona Senate. That position gave his son the sweetheart plea deal of…
Rev. Stephen Aiken was the founder of the YouthQuest Christian counseling agency. Two girls who came to him for help were molested by him. He was charged with two counts of corrupting a minor and convicted. The jury deadlocked on indecent assault. His denials rested on his claim that as a religious leader he had…
Carey Lee Cramer was a Republican Party campaign consultan. He made the anti-Gore ad that copied the 1964 Goldwater “Daisy” ad accusing Gore of giving nuclear secrets to China. The young girl in the ad was his stepdaughter and while filming the ad, he molested two young girls. A jury deliberated almost two days before…