Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Mike Krawitz was running for the township council of West Deptford, but dropped out after his messages to a reporter were made public by her. She reported that he had been sending messages to her for two years, including messages hoping she would be raped.
Leonard Church served two terms as Kennesaw, Georgia’s mayor, and continued to serve after that as a city council member. He was accused of sexually molesting a 9-year-old boy after showing the boy child pornography. They found between 800 and 1000 child sexual exploitation images on his computer devices. He originally pled not guilty, but changed his plea to guilty in a deal where the prosecutors changed the charge from aggravated child molestation to simple child molestation. He will spent 18 years in prison. He earlier rejected a plea deal that would have only been 15 years.
Christopher von Keyserling was a member of the Representative Town Meeting of Greenwich, CT when he sexually assaulted a woman employed by the town. A Republican, he celebrated Trump’s upcoming 2017 Inauguration by reaching through a town employee’s legs and pinching her groin, an action Trump bragged about on tape. He said he no longer had to be “politically correct.”
Initially, the woman only told her supervisor and had no intent to file a criminal complaint, but learned he had done this to other women at the office. Von Keyserling had served 32 years and ran for re-election, he lost. He was found guilty and sentenced to house arrest
Jeff Miller was an Indianapolis City Council member in his second term when he was charged with molesting a child, a ten-year-old girl who told her parents about his actions. Police interviewed other children who reported similar experiences with Miller. His fellow Republicans on the council asked him to resign, but he refused.
He was charged with child molesting. In a plea deal, those charges were dropped and in exchange, he pleaded guilty to four counts of battery of a person under the age of 14. He got probation, counseling, supervision, and must stay away from his victim
Michael T. McCourt was the Douglas County GOP County Chairman as well as the East Wenatchee Water and Sewer Commissioner. His wife, Sandra, sat on the East Wenatchee City Council from 2004 to 2018. He was sentenced to 51 months for molesting an 8-year-old boy. The statute of limitations had run out on several other incidents that go back as far as the 1980s. He served 45 of his 51 months.
Jeffrey Kyle Randall was the Republican mayor of Clarkfield, Minnesota. He was sentenced to 275 days in prison, less than a year, for molesting two boys aged ten and twelve over the course of six years. West Central Tribune: Former Clarkfield Mayor sentenced to 275 days
Patrick Lee McGuire, known as Pat McGuire, was a Flager County, FL, Republican county commissioner from 2001 to 2004. He was also the executive director of the Central Florida Police Benevolent Association until his arrest for child molestation. In 2007, he was convicted of molesting his two adopted daughters. One victim told police that McGuire…
Joe Monteleone was a Republican city councilman in Elyria, Ohio, as well as a pizzeria owner when he was charged with improperly touching three teen girls who worked for his pizza shop. Cleveland19: Trial Begins for City Councilman Charged with Sexual Imposition The Morning Journal: Councilman accused of touching young workers The Morning Journal: Convicted…
Allen D. Kauffman was a Republican mayor of Collins, Missouri, and the pastor of Temple Lot Church when he was arrested for soliciting a thirteen-year-old girl who happened to be a police officer in an internet sting. Later he was charged with another crime, sexual misconduct with a child under fourteen. The Joplin Globe: Ex-mayor…
Robert Holland, Republican, was Chairman of the Bedminster Township Supervisors. His day job was the head groundskeeper at a local nursing home where he raped a 92-year-old woman with dementia. He claimed it was consensual, though a woman with dementia cannot consent. He was convicted. The Morning Call: Bucks official charged in sex attack on…