Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Nicholas Elizondo, a board member of the Young Republican Federation, pleaded no contest to the charge of one count of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under fourteen. The child was his five-year-old step-daughter. That was in 1995. He served four of his six-year sentence before being released. He then married and he and…
Tom Shortridge was a Republican campaign consultant who, to put it bluntly, was not a nice person. For example, in 1998 he supported a primary candidate running against a woman who had been shot and said “Since when does being a victim qualify you for the legislature.” LA Times: Man Denies Guilt in Pornography Case
Byron Campbell cost the city of Concord, CA, $1.3 million when a jury found him guilty of sexual harassment and the city guilty of failing to respond adequately to the complaint. Rita Hardin sued Campbell and the Concord City Council in 1993. She contended that the former mayor had created a hostile work environment by making sexually…
Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty in 2002 to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business. Records show Randall served 188 days at Orange County Jail and did 83 days on a work crew at Mason Regional Park in Irvine.…
Howard L. Brooks was an aide to California Assemblyman Phil Wyman (R-Tehachapi.) Brooks is accused of committing lewd acts on a child, continuous sexual abuse, and possession of child pornography, said county prosecutor Rouman Ebrahim. The abuse allegedly occurred between March and November 2000. The County Sheriff’s Department Family Crimes Bureau began investigating Brooks after…