Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Jeremy Francis Plonski is a Minnesota State Trooper who is currently on leave pending investigation. He is being held without bail on charges of producing child sexual abuse material. Content warnings all over this one.
Jay Quam was a Hennepin County judge appointed by Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty in 2006. He retired in March, 2025, one month before he was reprimanded by The Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards for a pattern of sexual harassment that included an inappropriate relationship with his clerk and his staff hearing explicit sounds of sexual activity from his office.
Justin Eichorn was a Minnesota State Senator from 2017 until he resigned in 2025 after his arrest for soliciting a minor for sex.
Jason Yates, the former CEO of My Faith Votes, a Get-Out-The-Vote organization created to encourage “family values” and “biblical truths” by motivating Christian people to vote and to speak out in the public square. He has been indicted for eight counts of possession of child sexual abuse material.
Paul Zunker was the Carver County GOP Chair in Minnesota. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to sexually molesting a child in his estimation at least once a week. The victim said that she would say “knock it off” and he would just laugh and continue to touch her. She was less than 16 years old. While the penalty could have been as high as twenty-five years, Zunker was sentenced to six months and fifteen years probation.
Sean Patrick Masopust was a youth pastor at Northridge Church, an Evangelical church in Owatanna, Minnesota where his father-in-law was pastor. He pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. He was 33 and she was 17, making any romantic or sexual relationship, especially under his authority as youth pastor, a criminal act.
John Myser unsuccessfully contended for the Republican convention nomination for the state legislature. Just a week later, he was arrested in a domestic violence incident to which he gave an Alford plea, admitting there was plenty of evidence to convict him, but not admitting guilt.
Jim Rostberg was a Minnesota state representative. In 2000, he was arrested and charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct. The complaint alleged repeated sexual assaults of a child, the daughter of family friends, over several years. The child was fourteen when Rostberg was arrested. When her mother confronted him, Rostberg said he felt bad about it.
Jennifer Carnahan was the Chair of the Minnesota Republican Party. After her husband, Rep. Jim Hagedorn died of cancer, she ran for his office but placed third in the primary with 8% of the vote. Her close association with Anton Lazzaro probably did not help.
Gisela Castro Medina was the Chair of the College Republicans at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2021, she was arrested for underage sex trafficking. She was accused of helping Anton Lazzaro recruit and traffick minors for sex.