Peter Lucido was a Michigan state senator. He was the majority whip while in the Senate. He is now the prosecutor of Macomb County, Michigan, which seems likely to make victims of sexual violence and harassment question whether they will be treated fairly. After all, he made a joke suggesting some students visiting from an all-boys’ school “might have fun with” a reporter who asked him a question. She wrote about it, the feeling of humiliation that he caused.
Betsy DeVos was President Trump’s Secretary of Education. During her tenure, she focused heavily on reforming sexual misconduct rules for schools and universities to protect men who are accused. DeVos actually accused schools of operating “kangaroo courts” because they were acting to protect women. She defined sexual harassment to limit what could be included and…
Bill Schuette was the Congressional representative for District 10 for three terms before he ran for US Senate and lost. He served two years in the Michigan Senate before becoming the Attorney General of Michigan from 2011 to 2018 and ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor against Gretchen Whitmer in 2018. He’s a fairly typical conservative Republican, opposing gay marriage, abortion, legalization of marijuana, and the Affordable Care Act.
He also denigrates professional women while they are working as shown in this video where he sexually harasses a camera operator insinuating she would want to do more than just film him. You can judge for yourself if women can expect to be treated as his professional equal. In his defense, Schuette said the video was heavily edited. The Detroit News obtained the entire clip and verified the accuracy of the clip, refuting his defense.
Gary Rolls was a Republican county commissioner in Kent County, Michigan. In 2012, after he won his Republican primary in a state House race, a 28-year-old woman came forward claiming he had sexually abused her since she was nine years-old until she was twenty-three. But never fear, his arrest was dignified. He was charged with four counts of first-degree sexual assault, tampering with evidence, and using a computer to commit a crime.
The woman testified that she suffered from migraines, high blood pressure, anxiety, and nightmares as a result of the abuse. She said he threatened her and since she saw him associating with police and other powerful people, he could carry out his threats so she submitted to his demands.
“He made me do things that made me physically sick and he didn’t care. If I cried, he told me to stop because I was weak. If I said no, he told me I wasn’t allowed to tell him no because he was the adult and I was the child,” she said.
“There are no words to truly reflect the pain, the fears, and the lifelong scars that I have endured because of him.”
Michigan Radio: Former Kent County commissioner to serve a year in jail for sex crimes against minor
Paul Bailey was the sheriff of Berrien County. While Sheriff, ten women sued the county alleging that four deputies had sexually assaulted them, demanding sexual favors for money or other benefits. When the suit became public, five more women came forward. Throughout the controversy, Bailey denied that it happened, then said that the deputies had already resigned or were fired, and took no accountability for the apparent negligent training and supervision that allowed this to happen. The County was named in the suit for failing to properly supervise, monitor, and investigate complaints.
Unfortunately, the lawsuit was dismissed because the 3-year statute of limitations had expired
George Roche III was president of Hillsdale College, one of the conservative colleges that pledges to return conservative values. He was a friend with the leading lights of conservative thought, including William F. Buckley and Steve Forbes. He was at the apex of his career when his daughter-in-law killed herself, Her death brought out his…
Michael Flory was the head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans when he raped a woman attending the same national convention of Young Republicans. They were dancing and partying when she felt drunk and headed back to her room. He escorted her and then raped her. Flory was an early rising star in the…
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.…
