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1496: James Fishback

Abuse of Power or Authority, Grooming, Stalking/Harassment
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James Fishback is a hedge fund manager who is running in the Republican primary for Florida governor, hoping to succeed Ron DeSantis. He seems to court controversy. Recently he called Rep. Byron Donalds a slave. Donalds is a Black man and one of his primary opponents. Donalds complained but Fishback said he had no right to do so because, I guess, Fishback didn’t know there was slavery in Belize, Panama, and Jamaica. He also initiated a secret relationship with a minor who he became engaged to when she became an adult. They later broke up and she has asked for injunction against him for stalking.

The court did not issue the injunction, because she was an adult when the alleged stalking occurred and there were defensible reasons for contact. However, the issue of his relationship with a minor was not litigated.

1432: Grant Hill

Child Endangerment, Child Indecency, Indecent Exposure, Sexual Assault
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Grant Hill is a Republican primary candidate for Iowa State House District 88. He also filed to run in the primary for US House District 1, but has told journalists that was a mistake, though he said he planned to run for Congress in 2032. He was described in the Daily Mail as a “rising GOP star” despite being listed as a sex offender and his very recent release from prison after serving two years and nine months.

1422: Brad Namdar

Child Indecency, Sexual Harassment, Solicitation
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Brad Namdar was a GOP primary candidate contending for US House District 32, He made trafficking his key campaign issue after already making a reputation as an anti-trafficking crusader. However, a sex worker reported he twice solicited her for sex and the second time, he didn’t pay her. He was also reported for touching a high school student on the bottom when he was working as a teacher and soccer coach. The girl did not report this until she graduated high school.

1404: David Finkel

Child Exploitation, Child Sexual Abuse Material
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David Finkel was the Vice-President of the Shelbyville, Indiana, School Board and a former Republican primary candidate for mayor in 2023. He stepped down from the school board after he was arrested in June 2025 and charged with possession of child sexual abuse material and sexual exploitation of a minor.

1285: Justin Hicks

Assault
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Max Calfo, a Republican candidate running to replace Hicks in the state House published disparaging information about Hicks on his campaign website. Hicks sued to block the information, suing for “public disclosure of private acts” but a Judge ruled the public had a right to know.

1277: Dan Rodimer

Murder
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Dan Rodimer was a Trump-endorsed Congressional candidate in 2020. In 2021, he ran in a special election Republican primary in Texas and got 3% of the vote. He also lost his 2018 race for the Nevada State Senate. He is a former professional wrestler with a history of at least three violent incidents, all at restaurants or clubs. He pled guilty to a misdemeanour on one of those cases and took anger management classes. They seem not to have worked as he got into another altercation on Oct 29, 2023. This time the person he is alleged to have attacked died from blunt force trauma.

1070: Andrea Speck

Assault, Familial Abuse & Violence, Stalking/Harassment
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Andrea Speck was a candidate in the May 2022 Republican primary in the heavily Republican, sure to win the general, District 81. She ran in the Republican primary for Huntingdon County Commission in 2023 and lost that primary as well. While a primary candidate in 2023, she was arrested for an assault on her daughter. The next hearing on her case is July 20, 2023.

1068: Percy Wilbur Rock, Jr.

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Percy Wilbur Rock, Jr. was a candidate in the Republican primary for Greencastle-Antrim School Board in Pennsylvania. He was arrested after the ballots had been printed and software coded so he remained on the ballot. He got 763 votes.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children provided police with an IP address that had been observed uploading Child Sexual Abuse Material. Police tracked it to Rock who told the police he has been viewing CSAM for ten years or more