Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Jennifer Van Laar is a GOP campaign operative who worked for the Rep. Steve Knight re-election campaign that lost out to Katie Hill in 2018. She was an editor at Red State, a rightwing news and opinion site. She published a story at the infamously hackish Daily Mail and at Red State that relied on…
Kenneth Lee was appointed by Donald Trump to the 9th Circuit. He was confirmed with a party line vote, in large part because of his extreme and intemperate writing about race, homosexuality, sexual harassment, and rape. He was dishonest with the Judiciary Committee, selectively holding back his controversial writing, an action that led to an Obama appointee not being confirmed. The Republicans looked past his dishonesty and confirmed him anyway.
Scott Robert Jones is the sheriff of Sacramento County. He is retiring in January, 2023. He is the sheriff behind the Netflix series “Jailbirds” and exploitative reality show featuring women prisoners in the Sacramento County jail. He has made two unsuccessful runs as a Republican for Congress, in 2016 and 2022. In 2022, he didn’t make it past the primary.
Bill Brough was a California Republican Assemblyman representing Orange County. He was asked by his party to retire and withdraw from 2020 re-election race because of sexual harassment and assault allegations as well as an ethics investigation for using campaign funds for personal use. He ran for re-election anyway. He came in fourth in the primary.
Omar Navarro has challenged California Representative Maxine Waters four times. He got 22% in 2022. In 2020, he came in third in the California primary, unable to campaign because he was in jail. He is a Q adherent and has tweeted Pizzagate baloney. He’s been endorsed by a rogue’s gallery of Republican who were pardoned…
Joel Anderson is a San Diego County Supervisor and a former Republican state senator in California. He was reprimanded for threatening a woman who was a lobbyist in a bar. He rubbed her shoulders which witnesses described as clearly unwelcome and uninvited. He then complained that her organization had not endorsed him, and said he out to “bitch slap” her. According to a witness, he threatened to slap her several times. Another witness confirmed it as did the restaurant staff.
John Fickas was a Republican campaign consultant in California. He was also a volunteer high school track and field coach. He also raped students. He raped a 15-year-old and a 22-year-old former student while they were unconscious. His third victim was 42. He raped a 15-year-old assigned to volunteer with him on campaign duties twice.…
Steven Seagal has been accused of sexual assault by several women, even one girl who was only seventeen at the time. Regina Simons accused him of raping her in 1993 when she was eighteen and also claims she reported it to the police at the time. Jenny McCarthy accused him of sexually harassing her. Portia di Rossi accused him of unzipping his pants during an audition. Faviola Dadids claims he groped her when she was seventeen. Julianna Margulies described an audition that frightened her and she feels she escaped assault by fleeing.
Years’ worth of Capitol harassment claims The Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California · Saturday, February 03, 2018
Trice Harvey was a Republican California state representative. The state Legislature paid $10,000 to settle a sexual harassment complaint. His defenders claimed that there was an misunderstanding of what is funny. The complainant said she was subject to two years of offensive remarks. She signed a confidentiality agreement that Harvey ignored going to the press with claims of innocence, claiming she was fired and her suit was retaliation. This infuriated her since she could not discuss the details of why she filed a claim.