Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Terry Steinwand was the Director of North Dakota Game and Fish, appointed to the position by three different Republican governors in the last fifteen years of his career. He was arrested on September 5, 2025, and charged with gross sexual imposition with a person under the age of fifteen.
Will Gardner was the Republican Party-endorsed candidate for North Dakota Secretary of State. He withdrew from the race after news surfaced of his arrest when he was 29 years old. He was cited for surreptitious intrusion – a sexual offense, but that was dropped to disorderly conduct in a plea deal.
Nathan Rees was a professor at University of North Dakota in the Art and Design Department from 2013 to 2015. He was also a friend of Ray Holmberg. He received emails from Holmberg describing how he was grooming and sexually abusing a UND student in Prague. He did nothing.
However, Shawn Bergstrand is a registered sex offender. He was convicted in 2014 of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. He was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and five years of supervised release.
Ray Holmberg was a North Dakota senator for 44 years. In 2020, Caton Todd accused him of sexual assault. His allegation was ignored by the media. It got a little more attention when it was discovered that Holmberg exchanged 72 text messages with a man charged with distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM), possessing CSAM, and transporting two children from Minneapolis to Grand Forks, ND, in order to sexually abuse them.
Shane Anderson was the treasurer of the North Dakota District 24 Republicans. He also was the chairman of the recall effort to punish Rep. Dwight Kiefert, a fellow Republican. This is after the local Republicans already voted to censure Kiefert.
What did Kiefert do that was so terrible as to merit censure and recall? He voted with two-thirds of the other North Dakota Republicans to expel sexual harasser Luke Simons. Shane Anderson, who has a local minister’s license at the United Pentecostal Church International, is leading the effort to punish Kiefert for voting to expel an abusive, harassing, sexual predator.
Luke Simons is a former North Dakota state representative. He also managed to be expelled from the legislature for sexual harassment by his fellow Republicans. One Republican representative from Grand Forks actually moved her desk to get away from his harassment.