Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Joshua Dickens was elected constable in Faulkner County. In a jealous rage, he kidnapped a woman and tortured her, burning her with a cigarette lighter and beating her. He held her four and a half hours until she lied, confessing to seeing someone else, in hopes he would release her. He was convicted of torture,…
John Bryan, a Republican city councilman in St. Petersburg, was accused by a woman who claimed Bryan began sexually abusing her while she was a minor and that he sexually assaulted his two adoptive daughters. When the allegations came out, he resigned from the City Council. Before the police arrested him, he killed himself. Fox…
Brent Schepp ran uncontested in the Republican primary for Kane County board when he was indicted on 26 counts including 14 counts of criminal sexual assault, 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and two counts of unlawful delivery of alcohol to a minor. The assaults are alleged to have happened in his home. The articles…
Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr went on a camping trip with his best friend and raped his best friend’s fifteen-year-old daughter after getting her drunk. He was a Republican member of the Wrightsvulle Borough Council and was asked to resign after he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to six months in prison and six months…
Jim Hammond is the Sheriff of Hamilton County, TN. He has created a culture of impunity, protecting deputies who rape and assault the public. One of his deputies has been indicted on 44 charges including rape, assault, and stalking. But this deputy did some of his worst crimes with other deputies. For example, Deputy Daniel…
Dennis Gallagher was a New York City Councilmember, representing Queens. He was accused of rape by a woman he met in a bar. According to her, he promised her a ride home but took her to his office instead and beat and raped her. He claimed it was consensual. Gallagher pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor…
Kevin Coan was St. Louis, Missouri’s top Republican election official when he was arrested for traveling to Illinois to meet up with a 14-year-old girl for sex. The girl turned out to be undercover law enforcement. While searching his computer, police also found child pornography. Dispatch-Argus: Police: Child Porn found on election official’s computer St.…
Peter Dibble was a Republican selectman in Stonington, CT, who was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor girl on at least 40 occasions over the course of several years, from when she was ten until she was thirteen. He pled no contest to lesser charges of child endangerment and was sentenced to a suspended…
Philip Giordano was the Mayor of Waterbury, CT and a one-time Republican Senate nominee and has since been convicted of raping children and sentenced to 37 years in prison. Just the headlines on the long series of stories about him at the New York Times will turn your stomach. The FBI was investigating Giordano for…
John Collins, a Republican who served twenty years on the Eatontown City Council, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and one count of witness tampering. He was sentenced to ten years, sex offender registration, and parole supervision for life. He was a middle school teacher and organized a community band. He abused his…