Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Jose “Pepe” Diaz was the mayor of Sweetwater, Florida before serving twenty years on the county commissioner. He has termed out and announced in February 2023 that he will run for Sweetwater mayor again. He was sued by a city employee who claimed he made inappropriate sexual comments including suggesting she shake her hips at a business meeting. After she filed a complaint, he fired her.
Michael McGuire was the youngest mayor in Blasdell, New York, when he was sworn in back in 1978. He was also a math and science teacher at Immaculata Academy, a Catholic all-girls school. That was where he groomed some of his students and sexually abused them for three years. Three of them sued him in 2019 under New York’s Child Victims Act, though two of them confronted him several years ago when he told them he was just preparing them for college.
Rodney Burl Nichols was the mayor of Valley Mills, Texas. In 2005 while he was on the city council, he was charged with child molestation, but the grand jury declined to indict. He was reappointed to the council and then served as mayor. In 2018, he was indicted for continuous sexual abuse of a child when two girls came forward, ages 11 and 13, and claimed he had touched them inappropriately.
Jeremy Filbert was the mayor of Mitchellville, Iowa. In 2014, he ran for Iowa State Senate but lost the Republican primary. In April, 2015, he resigned as mayor and moved to Kansas City, Kansas, to take a job where he was soon arrested rape and aggravated sodomy of a child under thirteen, his half-sister.
Kenneth Lewis Barrett was the Republican mayor of Winston, Oregon. He was caught in one of those stings where police officers pretend to be a minor child on Facebook. He thought he was arranging to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex, but was instead arrested. When arrested, he was charged with online sexual corruption of a minor. he was also charged with unlawful possession and concealment of firearms.
Donald Marceau McLeod was the Mayor of Severance, Colorado. He resigned after an anonymous tip was called in reporting that a child was dragged into a white van and may have been taken hostage. The van was owned by McLeod. The child was someone he met on Grindr who initially said he was 19, but he confessed he was just 17, a minor. He was arrested and charged with patronizing a prostituted child. He pleaded guilty to promoting obscenity to a child and got three years probation and must register as a sex offender.
Gary Clark is the former Mayor of Zillah, Washington and an officer of the Yakima County Republicans. He was the mayor for a decade in the 80s into the 90s and then again from 2004 to 2017. He was arrested in March, 2021 and charged with one count of rape of a child and indecent exposure. His victim was 4 years old. There is a witness to the sex act and video evidence of him exposing himself to the child.
Jim Maloof was the Mayor of Peoria. The city settled a sexual harassment suit after his secretary accused him of unwanted kisses and hugs and of making inappropriately personal lewd comments. In 1993, 37 female city employees complained to the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Maloof and other officials had engaged in sexual discrimination and harassment.
Ed Reinhardt was the mayor of Lockport, Louisiana. He resigned after his constant sexual harassment of a city employee was investigated by the town attorney. It got so bad she was asking other workers to stay in the office so she would not be alone with him.
Andrew Bradshaw was the mayor of Cambridge, Maryland and a former aide to Governor Larry Hogan. After a woman ended an intimate relationship with him, he posted sexually explicit pictures of her with sexual, offensive, and racist captions on Reddit, dozens of times. He was charged with 50 counts of revenge porn.