Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Dana Rinehart was the Republican mayor of Columbus, OH. Back in 1978, when he was the county treasurer, it was alleged that he molested his 13-year-old babysitter. He was not indicted and the prosecutor’s decision to let him testify to the grand jury on his own behalf. Even more irregular, a psychiatrist who had never…
James E. West was the mayor of Spokane, WA, and was well-known for his homophobia. While he was in the legislature he supported a bill banning gay people from working in schools and day care programs. He also proposed a wackadoodle bill banning sex between any unmarried people under the age of 18. The local…
John Gosek, former Mayor of Oswego, NY, was reported by a woman who worked as a monitor at a local school. He had asked her to find young girls he could have sex with. He offered to give the girls cocaine, alcohol, and ecstasy. Instead of setting him up with girls, she set him up…
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…
Former Lake County GOP Chairman and Green Oaks Mayor Tom Adams was sentenced in a plea deal to possession of child pornography, dropping the charges for distribution of child pornography. He was sentenced to 30 intermittent days in the county work-release program, a $10,000 fine, psychological treatment, and 200 hours of community service. This was…
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…
Mayor Virgil Hebert of Wilmot, OH pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition and sexual battery for molesting a 15-year-old boy. He was fined $5000 and sentenced to 4 to 10 years in prison. He was originally accused of rape, but the charges were reduced in the plea deal.
Gerald ‘Ajax’ Ackerman was the popular “law and order” mayor of Port Huron who was often lovingly profiled in the media thanks to his biker persona. He was “Citizen of the Year.” He was convicted of exposing himself to several children. He was also convicted of sexually abusing three underage girls, 8, 11, and 12.…
Joe Dan Dwyer was a popular, publicity-seeking “Law & Order” mayor of the small town of Reeds Spring, Missouri. He had been featured in the Sun-Sentinel and the New York Times for his larger-than-life grandiosity. But that was before two teen girls who were members of his family came forward with the allegation he abused…
Mayor John Pfannenstiel of Baseshor, KS, was accused of having sex with inmates while working as a prison guard. Found guilty, he received probation. A prisoner testified on his behalf and then pleaded guilty to perjury, claiming Pfannenstiel’s lawyer promised him money for testifying on his behalf.