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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.

523: Howard Pearl

Child Molestation, Sexual Assault
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Howard Pearl was a member of the New Hampshire House from 2016 to 2022 when he won election to the New Hampshire Senate. In 2014, he was charged with misdemeanor sexual assault, accused of touching a 15-year-old girl. When he ran for Senate, though, he said he had his day in court and the charges…

502: John Minnis

Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment
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Democratic Governor Ted Kulongowski appointed Minnis as Director of the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training program. He resigned after accused of sexual harassment and possible sexual assault of a subordinate. She alleged that he got her drunk and she woke up in his bed with no memory of what happened. He claimed whatever happened, it was consensual.

499: Eddie Farnsworth

Rape Culture
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Eddie Farnsworth was an Arizona state legislator and later state senator until his retirement in 2021. He is most well-known for his endless effort to protect marital rapists. For example, when a Democratic senator introduced a bill allowing severance of the parental rights of rapists he added an amendment to protect the rights of marital rapists.

488: Michelle Ugenti-Rita

Sexual Harassment
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Michelle Ugenti-Rita was a Republican state senator in Arizona and a state representative before that. She was accused of sexual harassment by a female lobbyist who claimed that Ugenti-Rita and her husband were soliciting her for a threesome. Ugenti-Rita’s husband sent explicit photos to the lobbyist asking for a threesome, but she also claimed Ugenti-Rita invited her to her hotel room and asked her to stay the night. Ugenti-Rita acknowledged she took the photos, but claimed not to know her husband sent them to the lobbyist.

479: Peter Lucido

Sexual Harassment
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Peter Lucido was a Michigan state senator. He was the majority whip while in the Senate. He is now the prosecutor of Macomb County, Michigan, which seems likely to make victims of sexual violence and harassment question whether they will be treated fairly. After all, he made a joke suggesting some students visiting from an all-boys’ school “might have fun with” a reporter who asked him a question. She wrote about it, the feeling of humiliation that he caused.

455: Jon Bramnick

Rape Culture
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Jon Bramnick is a Republican senator in the New Jersey state Senate. Before that he served in the New Jersey House of Representatives. He is also a lawyer and his law firm, Bramnick Law, advertises that it will defend those accused of sexual crimes by discrediting the victims. Everyone deserves a zealous defense, everyone, even rapists and child molesters. But, advertising from the outset that you will investigate and discredit accusers is something else.

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.

420: Joel Anderson

Sexual Harassment
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Joel Anderson is a San Diego County Supervisor and a former Republican state senator in California. He was reprimanded for threatening a woman who was a lobbyist in a bar. He rubbed her shoulders which witnesses described as clearly unwelcome and uninvited. He then complained that her organization had not endorsed him, and said he out to “bitch slap” her. According to a witness, he threatened to slap her several times. Another witness confirmed it as did the restaurant staff.