Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Glenn Murphy Jr. was President of the Young Republican National Federation and Clark County Republican Party Chairman. At a state Republican party gathering, he performed oral sex on an unwilling man which sounds like rape to me. He was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to six years. The Advocate: 16 Anti-gay leaders exposed as…
Michael Flory was the head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans when he raped a woman attending the same national convention of Young Republicans. They were dancing and partying when she felt drunk and headed back to her room. He escorted her and then raped her. Flory was an early rising star in the…
Donald Fleischman was the Brown County, Iowa, Republican Party Chair when he was charged with felony counts of child enticement and exposing himself to a minor. He offered marijuana and alcohol to two minors, told them they could live with them if they ran away. The complaint alleges that Fleischmann fondled and performed sexual acts…
Matthew Joseph Elliott was supposedly destined for a great future in Republican politics. Some people thought he would be governor of Iowa one day. He was elected governor at Boys State and later the head of the Iowa College Republicans. He worked on Romney’s campaign, as a legislative aide, and then as ED of the…
E Ozwald Balfour was a conservative radio host, founder of the Utah Republican Black Assembly, and a Utah Republican State Central Committee member, the latter even after he was arrested for sexually abusing women who applied for work at his media company. In the end, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 90 days…
Nicholas Elizondo, a board member of the Young Republican Federation, pleaded no contest to the charge of one count of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under fourteen. The child was his five-year-old step-daughter. That was in 1995. He served four of his six-year sentence before being released. He then married and he and…
John R. Curtin was a Republican committeeman when he hosted a beer party at a Stroudsburg, PA, motel and invited a 17-year-old young man and three boys aged 13 to 20 to drink beer. The seventeen-year-old got drunk and went out for a cigarette and Curtin followed him out, pulled down his pants, and molested…
Parker J. Bena was a prominent Republican activist and an elector for Bush in 2000. A year later, Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in a plea deal. Columbia Daily Tribune: Bill targets Missouri lobbyist with sex offender conviction Virginia East District Court: USA vs. Bena
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…
Paul Ingram was the Republican Party Chairman in Thurston County, Washington. He was also the Chief Civilian Deputy of the sheriff’s department. He was accused of rape by his two daughters and his son. He confessed and was sentenced to twenty years. This is a strange and problematic case. His confession included talk of satanic…