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595: Ryan Samsel

Assault, Familial Abuse & Violence, Menacing, Rape, Sexual Assault
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Ryan Samsel is an insurrectionist. He is accused of assaulting several officers during the insurrection and leaving one of them with a concussion. He has a long history of domestic violence and sexual assault. In fact, at the time he was attacking Capitol Police, there was a warrant for his arrest for alleged breaking into a woman’s home to assault her. He was also on parole for his brutal attack on his pregnant girlfriend and witness intimidation.

578: Rickey Williams

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Rickey Williams is an insurrectionist. His daughter is Riley Williams, the woman who stole Rep. Pelosi’s laptop. He was caught in an internet sting. He thought he was communicating with a fourteen-year-old girl, but actually was communicating with a police officer. He wanted his victim to create sexual abuse material and instructed her in what to do.

554: Chad Michael Salsman

Extortion, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Assault, Trafficking
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Chad Michael Salsman was elected as District Attorney. He was an active volunteer at his church. A Republican, he had been a defense attorney. In 2019, he forced some of his clients to trade sex for legal representation. He was charged with sexual assault, indecent assault, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, and promoting prostitution.

542: Joe Scarnati

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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Joe Scarnati was a Republican state senator in Pennsylvania. He served as President pro tempore for thirteen years until his 2020 retirement. During that time, he was on the side of the victimizers and not the victims of sexual abuse. After the 2020 election, as one of his last actions as a retiring Senator, he forced through a vote to not confirm a second term for the state victim’s advocate, a woman who allegedly advocated too hard for the victims of the Catholic church abuse scandal.

438: Mike Folmer

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Mike Folmer was a Pennsylvania state senator who resigned the day after he was charged with possessing child sexual abuse material (child pornography.) He was in the first year of his fourth term, having served twelve years. He was charged with possession the child sexual abuse material and criminal use of a communications facility. He pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to up to two years but was released in 2021 on parole after one year. He remains on probation for eight years.

410: Bernadette Comfort

Organizational Cover-Up
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Bernadette Comfort is the vice-chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party. She was also implicated in an effort to cover up the sexual harassment allegations that featured Valentino DiGiorgio III. She claimed she didn’t know about the harassment allegations but two women claimed she was informed and seemed uninterested. The Philadelphia InquirerPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania · Friday, July…

400: Valentino DiGiorgio III

Sexual Harassment
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Valentino DiGiorgio III was chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party but was forced to resign after he sent unwelcome sexual texts to a woman who was running for Philadelphia City Council. They connected over Facebook and then began texting each other, some of the texts were flirtatious, but then the messages got overly sexual and she told him that he made her uncomfortable and harassing her. He sent her a dick pic.

348: Brian Ellis

Rape
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Brian Ellis was at a bar in 2015, a woman had a fall. Ellis was acquainted with her and offered to take her home, but she alleges he took her to his home. The woman was not voluntarily intoxicated, but she was incapacitated. She thinks she was drugged. She sought medical attention the next day, with a concussion and other injuries. She believes she was raped as she was incapable of consenting while incapacitated. She filed a complaint. Ellis denied her allegations, but resigned under pressure. A grand jury declined to indict.

271: Jack W. Gardner

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Jack W. Gardner was convicted of child molesting over thirty years before the Republicans ran him for office. He was the Millersville Council Vice-President and a GOP committeeman for several terms. Republicans are fond of arguing that pedophilia cannot be treated, but I guess it’s okay if you’re a Republican.

In 1970, he pleaded guilty. He was charged with assault with intent to ravish, corrupting a minor, and indecent assault of a minor. She was thirteen, he was twenty-four at the time. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced from three to 23 months for assault with intent to ravish and a year’s probation for all the rest. He was paroled after just three month.

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