Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Starr Emery is the Republican candidate for District 46 of the Montana House of Representatives. The Facebook tagline for her campaign is “Safe Children, Sound Families, and a Strong Montana.” That makes her arrest for Child Endangerment surprising.
Dean Allen Wallowing Bull is the Republican candidate for Montana’s House District 41 Representative despite being indicted on federal charges for sexual abuse and attempted sexual abuse of two men who were unable to consent.
Daniel Edward Duffey has been a Republican political strategist for years. He was the political director for Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s 2020 campaign before being fired due to a sort-of road rage incident. He was working with Montana Policy Action, a c4 that seems to be electioneering more than the permissible “less than half.” They are a policy group that don’t have a single policy on their site. Duffey has been charged with two counts of stalking, one a felony count.
Joshua Harris was a deputy sheriff in Wibaux County, Montana. In November, 2022, he was arrested and charged with eight counts of incest, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of sexual intercourse without consent. In a plea agreement, he pled guilty to two counts of incest with two children under the age of sixteen and one count of sexual intercourse without consent with one child under sixteen.
Brian Heck was a school board member in Belgrade, MT. He ran as a parents-rights candidate striving to keep out progressive ideas. In July, he was one of eighteen people arrested in a child exploitation and trafficking investigation. He resigned from the school board.
Dean Alan Smith was the pastor at Morning Star Baptist Church on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. In December 2022, he was arrested for the sexual abuse of four girls, three of them under age twelve between 2017 and 2019. He pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse, one count of abusive sexual contact and three counts of abusive sexual contact by force and of a child.
His wife and children allege he was abusive, that he terrorized them until they escaped in a carefully planned feat. They were certain he would kill them. He threatened to kill the family dog. He threatened to kill himself. He choked one of his daughters He certainly promised to do so often enough. Dakota Adams, his son, described it as living in a cult and writes about extremism and militias in his Substack site Deprogram.
Fred Anderson is a Republican representative from Great Falls, Montana. He is running for re-election in 2022. You can see his answers to a local paper candidate questionnaire where he states abortion should be illegal at any time for any reason. So no rape or incest exception. Which fits with his failure to do his job as a high school principal and protect his students from a serial predator athletic trainer who abused as many as 200 boys. The gruesome details are in the Buzzfeed article.
Jason Priest was a state senator from Red Lodge, Montana. He was a Tea Party Republican and was a standard issue far right pro-gun, anti-choice, “family values” Republican who clashed with more moderate colleagues. He chaired the Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee. Then he got in an argument with his estranged wife. In his rage, he threw his 4-year-old daughter across the room where she hit her head and was injured. In the end, he assaulted his daughter, his estranged wife, her boyfriend, and a police officer who had been called to the scene. He was charged with four felony assault claims but pleaded guilty to all four when they were amended to misdemeanors.
Douglas Marks was a scion of an important Republican family in Montana. His brother, Bob Marks, was the Speaker of the House. He was a teacher and molested children likely over thirty years before he was arrested. The prosecutor said he knew of at least 45 students, but over the course of his career, he molested children of men he had molested when they were young.