Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Will Lewis was the Greenville County, SC, sheriff when he raped a subordinate. He was forced to step down a year later.after she published a now-deleted blog post accusing him of rape and stalking, forcing her to quit her job out of fear for her life.
South Carolina state Rep. Chris Corley was one of the most ardent defenders of keeping the Confederate flag. After his fellow Republicans voted to remove the flag from the state capitol grounds, he sent them a Christmas card with a picture of the removed flag and the suggestion they “ask for forgiveness of all your sins such as betrayal.” It’s such a story, I included it below.
A year later, his wife confronted him about infidelity. He beat her so badly her head was bleeding. He held a gun to her head. He did this in front of their children. He took her phone so she could not call 911, though she cleverly used her Apple watch to call 911. The recording has their 2-year-old son saying “Please stop daddy.”
Beverly C. Russell Jr. was the stepfather of Susan Smith, the notorious woman who drowned her children. He was active in Republican politics and the Christian Coalition, the rightwing evangelical political association. He was also sexually abusing his stepdaughter Susan. She first tried to kill herself when she was thirteen. She told a school counselor…
Strom Thurmond was a U.S. senator representing South Carolina. He was an opponent of civil rights and gave the longest filibuster in US history in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. After he died, his daughter came forward. She was biracial, the daughter of a fifteen-year-old Black girl who worked for his family.…