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1054: Joshua Craft

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Joshua Craft was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Otter Creek Township trustee in Vigo County, Indiana, just north of Terre Haute. The FBI received a tip from Charter Communications and Google that he was sharing Child Sex Abuse Material (CSAM) and passed it on to the Terre Haute Police Department. Fittingly, Craft’s user name at the site, Chat Avenue, was Josh38PervDad. He was arrested in April, 2023. He trial is scheduled for October 10, 2023.

1018: Frank Pavone

Grooming, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Frank Pavone founded Priests for Life, an anti-abortion group, and chaired Catholics for Trump. The Vatican laicized or defrocked him without appeal for blasphemous communications on social media and disobedience of his bishop. He placed an aborted fetus on the altar and made a video. He is also an election denier.

990: Rocky Hayes

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Rocky Hayes was the Chair of the Jones County Republican Party. He also has three businesses in marketing and design, photography, and managing a rental property. A DropBox employee provided a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that there was child sexual abuse material in Hayes’ dropbox. A search found two more videos on an external drive.

975: Barry S. Edwards

Abuse of Power or Authority, Coercion
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Barry S. Edwards was a Florida State University professor when he organized a fundraiser for Giuliani’s presidential run. However, he withdrew from the Pinellas County Republican effort when it was revealed that he was accused of coercion. A nineteen-year-old student claimed Edwards got drunk, showed him porn, and asked him to masturbate. The student claimed Edwards threatened him with bad grades. Later, the student asked to dismiss the case.

974: Matt Schlapp

Sexual Battery
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Matt Schlapp is the Chair of the American Conservative Union that hosts the CPAC conference. He also chairs the political action committee. In 2022, a staffer on the Herschel Walker campaign accused him of sexual battery by groping him while he drove Schlapp while Schlapp was in Georgia for the campaign.

800: Joel Sartori

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Joel Sartori was Assistant Treasurer for Carl Paladino’s unsuccessful campaigns for governor and for the GOP nomination for Congress. Sartori was convicted in 2017 of both possessing and distributing child sex abuse material. Paladino has known and employed Sartori for years and knows of his conviction. Paladino said Sartori has paid his dues and deserves another chance.

799: Jonathan Hernandez

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault, Solicitation of a Minor
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Jonathan Hernandez was the Chair of the Oklahoma College Republicans. He was also a campaign outreach worker for Ryan Walters who ran successfully for State Superintendant. They terminated his employment after two weeks. Shortly before his arrest, he received recognition from the state Republican Party for his work in Latino outreach and even a received a message from the national organization. He was employed by the Senate at the time of his arrest but was terminated.

770: Brad Graven

Solicitation of a Minor
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Brad Graven is a former Moultrie County board member and he was an active volunteer for Illinois Rep. Mary Miller’s campaign. He not only collected signatures, he was given access to her legislative vehicle and drove her to meetings and events.

Miller was convicted of soliciting a minor. He was sentenced to two years’ probation and 40 days in the DuPage County Jail. He had arranged to meet with someone he thought was a teenage boy for sex, but he actually met a police officer.

Ironically, a frequent statement in Rep. Miller’s speeches is that people’s character is known by who they hang around with

668: Felicia Killings

Child Molestation, Rape
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Felicia Killings is the founder and CEO of the Conscious Conservative Movement and Media Network. As a Black woman, her focus is on expanding the reach of Republicans into the Black community. The focus in 2023-24 is on the Greater Atlanta area. She is also a former teacher who pleaded no contest to raping a student. She was 28 and he was under 18 and her student. She was charged with six felony counts, pled guilty to one and was sentenced to 30 days in a plea deal.