Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Andrew Buhr, Republican committeeman for Hadley Township in Missouri and an unsuccessful GOP nominee for the Missouri House in 2000, was arrested for statutory sodomy. He did not deny having sex with the thirteen-year-old boy but claimed he thought he was older. Enough on the jury thought it was possible to mistake a thirteen-year-old child…
Kevin Coan was St. Louis, Missouri’s top Republican election official when he was arrested for traveling to Illinois to meet up with a 14-year-old girl for sex. The girl turned out to be undercover law enforcement. While searching his computer, police also found child pornography. Dispatch-Argus: Police: Child Porn found on election official’s computer St.…
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…
Royce M. Fessenden was the head of the Christian County Republican party in Missouri when he was arrested for child molestation. He molested a female relative about once a week from when she was 9 until she was 17. When she was 23, she went to the police. He admitted his crime and was sentenced…
Eric Feltner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor pornography charge, less than the two counts of providing pornographic materials to a minor and public display of sexual content that he faced. Feltner was the Chief of Staff for Missouri’s Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder until he resigned after his arrest. He was given a suspended sentence and…