Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Steve King was a Republican U.S. representative from Iowa from 2003 to 2019. He was infamous for his extremist views, his anti-Black, anti-immigrant, and antiabortion views. He did manage to shock the world though with his defense of rape. He actually asked if not for rape and incest, “would there be any humanity left.”
Mark Meadows was a Republican Congressman from North Carolina before becoming Trump’s Chief of Staff. During his tenure in Congress, he was censured for his handling of sexual harassment complaints against his Chief of Staff Kenny West. He learned of his behavior in late 2014, but did not act until staff went to him in 2015. He then moved West to his district office so that he no longer supervised women in the DC office. He finally terminated him in May 2015 but paid him until August. Payments beyond his end date were not permissible.
Chelsea Scarlett, who worked at the same fort as Watkins, claimed she was in a room with Watkins when he locked the door, put his hands on her, and making unwanted sexual advances. She did not make a complaint at the time because she was afraid she would lose her job.
Tyler Smith, a member of right-wing militia group Patriot Prayer, was featured in the reality show in Season 3, Episode 4 of Doomsday Preppers, a show that amplifies the paranoid, reactionary, and the radical right. His group is called The Marauders because they plan to steal their supplies. They showed him with firearms which led to his arrest for illegal possession of firearms. He is not eligible to have weapons because he is a convicted sex offender.
National Geographic didn’t mention he was a convicted child molester but they did show him saying he was an apex predator. Perhaps he meant sexual predator. Is molesting a 14-year-old girl apex?
Jason Lewis had a conservative radio show before he ran for Congress. He served one term and lost by 5 points. Then, he ran for Senate, was backed by Trump, and lost by 5 points. In 2011 on his radio show, he mocked the women who recounted how Herman Cain had allegedly sexual harassed them. He even mocked the idea that sexual harassment could be traumatizing. He put on a fake voice and made fun of them. It’s probably why Trump endorsed him.
Ralph Norman is a Republican Congressman from South Carolina. In 2018, he made a rape joke during a debate. This was in the midst of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process and he made a malicious joke claiming Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was groped by Abraham Lincoln.
Tim Murphy was a Pennsylvania state senator before he ran for Congress and became a U.S. House member. He represented Pennsylvania’s 18th from 2003 until 2017 when he resigned as a result of several scandals. He was known for his absolute opposition to abortion, so when he urged the woman he was having an affair with to get an abortion, that was a major scandal. However, hypocrisy is not a road to listing here.
He was an abusive boss and fostered an atmosphere of abuse, hiring as Chief of Staff another abusive person. His office had 100% turnover because of abuse.
John Peterson was a Republican politician in Pennsylvania serving eight years in local government before being elected to the state House in 1977, then to the state Senate in 1985, and then the US Congress in 1997 where he served until 2009. He was accused of sexual harassment by a page when he was in the state Senate. She filed a complaint alleging he grabbed her breast in the elevator. The Pennsylvania Senate’s investigator concluded that it probably happened, but was impossible to prove. In addition, three women said he tried to kiss them at work and three additional women asked for and got transfers because he made them uncomfortable at work. Those six cases were not investigated.
Dick Armey was a U.S. Representative from Texas for eighteen years and House Majority Leader for the last eight. He was Newt Gingrich’s right arm and enforcer. Before Congress, he was an economics professor where three women who were students allege inappropriate conduct. One was so disturbed she left school until another professor offered to supervisor her program and keep her from Armey.
Dan Burton began his career as a state senator in Indiana before being elected to Congress. He was known for philandering and sexual harassment. “None of the [female] staff wanted to be caught in a hall with him,” recalls retired Indiana legislator Hurley Goodall, a Democrat who served with Burton until 1983, when Burton left for Washington.
Burton claimed to be a family values Republican and was vocally prudish in condemnation of Clinton and Bob Packwood, saying “No one, regardless of what party they serve, no one, regardless of what branch of government they serve, should be allowed to get away with these alleged sexual improprieties”.
However, he was accused of sexually assaulting a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood, putting his hands up her skirt. “I was there maybe thirty seconds and he had his hands up my skirt so fast I didn’t even know what was coming.” This came from The Flynt Report which had several other allegations as well, but the Flyn