Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Thomas Bruce was an Evangelical pastor who frequently ranted about his support for Trump. He was a fan of Laura Ingraham as well. He founded an Evangelical church in 2003, left it in 2007, and worked at various ministries and churches since then.
Richard McIntosh is a lobbyist in Missouri whose son was expelled for a Title IX violation from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. While the specific charge is unknown, Title IX violations include many forms of sexual misconduct from harassment, stalking, partner violence, and rape. Washington University has been harshly criticized for doing too little…
Meghan Wiggins and her husband Gary operated Joshua Home, an anti-gay conversion camp, in Alabama, Missouri, and Texas, moving on when closed by authorities for abusing and trafficking the children.
Gary Wiggins ran an anti-gay “conversion” camp with his wife Meghan. They were both indicted for trafficking the children sent to their camp. The children were subject to physical abuse and forced labor. They had moved on to Illinois after the State of Texas shut down their Joshua Home. Texas followed the closing of their home in Missouri for child abuse allegations and in Alabama before that. They were extradited from Alabama to Texas.
Barry Hovis is a Republican state representative in Missouri. He is anti-abortion and supported a ban on abortion after eight weeks. To make his case, he expounded on his experience as a police officer informing him that most rapes were not “a gentleman” jumping out of the bushes but were “date rapes or consensual rapes.”
John Diehl was Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. When news broke that he had been sexting with a nineteen-year-old intern, he resigned. “I take full responsibility for my actions and am truly sorry to those I let down, I apologize for the poor judgment I displayed that put me and those closest to…
John Boswell is a GOP donor and party activist. He’s also sexually assaulted two women in less than two years. He was in D. C. to celebrate Trump’s Inauguration. While at the Mayflower Hotel, he walked up behind the maid who was cleaning his room, grabbed her buttocks and said “I like that.” A second…
Ron Jettons was once Speaker of the House in Missouri. He seemed immune to criticism continuing to work as a political consultant to colleagues while serving as Speaker. However, brazen defiance of criticism does not work with the law. He was indicted for assault for hitting and choking a woman during sex. He pled guilty in a deal that avoided jail time.
Eric Greitens was the governor of Missouri when he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman and using a photo he took of her while she was blindfolded to extort her silence. The telling thing was that members of his own party led the investigation and the demands for his resignation. Prosecutors made a deal to drop some charges against him if he resigned. He resigned.
Allen D. Kauffman was a Republican mayor of Collins, Missouri, and the pastor of Temple Lot Church when he was arrested for soliciting a thirteen-year-old girl who happened to be a police officer in an internet sting. Later he was charged with another crime, sexual misconduct with a child under fourteen. The Joplin Globe: Ex-mayor…