Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Scott Huse’s charges stem from events between 1990 and 1995 involving two teenage girls. With the first victim, he he was charged with one count of child enticement, four counts of sexual assault of a child younger than 13, and six counts of second degree sexual assault of a child. With the other child, he was charged with one count of second degree sexual assault.
Ken Kratz was the District Attorney of Calumet County, in Wisconsin. He became infamous for his prosecution of Stephen Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey in the second murder case after Avery was exonerated. This was covered in the Making a Murderer documentary. In spite of that, he kept his job, but he was forced out when people learned he coerced domestic violence survivors who needed him to prosecute their abusers.
Shae Sortwell is a Wisconsin state legislator whom state police referred for child abuse prosecution. The child had such significant bruises that a relative contacted police. The investigated and referred Sortwell for felony child abuse.
Derrick van Orden is a Congressman representing Wisconsin’s Third District where he squeaked by in the most egregiously gerrymandered state where Republicans won 75% of the seats with 55% of the total vote. He was elected despite openly admitted he sexually harassed at least two women by exposing a man’s genitals to them. Well, bragged is more appropriate, he described the incidents in his book, “Book of Man: A Navy SEAL’s Guide to the Lost Art of Manhood.” Seriously, that title should be disqualifying.
Alexander Bebris was a chief of police in Ohio before moving to Wisconsin where he unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Outagamie County. In December 2018, investigators searched his home and found child sexual abuse images. In December 2020, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison, but he was out on appeal.
Rob Brooks is a Republican state representative, re-elected by Wisconsin voters after he was asked to resign y Republican governor Scott Walker. He did step down from his position as Assistant Majority Leader, but refused to resign. This was after he made sexist comments to two women Republicans and racist comments to the only Latina Republican in the caucus. He blamed it on being drunk, but that does not make it okay.
He said he was going to buy drinks for everyone except the only Hispanic legislator in the Republican caucus. Folks originally characterized it as a bad joke. He did buy drinks for other people, but not her. The three women described his comments as inappropriate and offensive. Voters had a choice in the Republican primary and 80% of them voted for the person guilty of sexual harassment.
Roger Rivard was a Wisconsin state representative for one term. His crass remarks regarding a local rape involving a 17-year-old raping a 14-year-old in the band room at school. He said “some girls rape easy.” This was, he claimed, his father’s advice. Thinking to explain the full context, he said:
“What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, ‘If you’re going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.’ So the way he said it was, ‘Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’
Bill Kramer was a Wisconsin State Assembly member and the Majority Leader. He was accused of sexually harassing two women, a lobbyist and a legislative aide, at a D.C. fundraiser in February 2014. When that became public, another woman came forward, reporting to the police that Kramer had assaulted and groped a woman in 2011. While she did not go to police at the time, she had a lawyer send Kramer a letter telling him to stay away from her. She had witnesses to her distress the night of the incident. She said she didn’t come forward at the time to avoid embarrassing herself, her family, and the Republican party.
His party removed him as Majority Leader and called on him to resign but he refused to do so.
In a plea deal, Kramer pled no contest two two counts of misdemeanor assault which meant that he was not required to resign. He was sentenced to five months in jail. He apologized to the woman, claiming he was struggling with alcohol at the time.
Cardinal Raymond Burke was only a bishop when he made this list for protecting pedophile priests. He wielded the power of excommunication to attack a local church board and pastor over a church governance conflict. He has excommunicated women who dared to call themselves priests. He has not excommunicated convicted pedophiles.
He blamed women for the rampant pedophilia problem in the church. All those women volunteering at the church make manly men uncomfortable. Then altar girls do their job too well so there are few manly boys taking up church duties. Yes, he thinks the pedophiles are gay.
Burke advanced so far in the church because he appeared to be running his diocese better than the rest. Other diocese were finding about 4% of their priests molested children but his diocese was running at about 1.5%. But that was deceptive. He had fewer pedophile priests removed from service because he let them stay where they were. Burke kept a higher percentage of priests with allegations of child sex abuse in their ministry than any other in the United St
Joe McCarthy not only promoted the infamous Red Scare that led to purges in the State Department and Hollywood, he also began the Lavender Scare that did the same thing to homosexuals. Now, the anti-gay employment policies did not originate with him and some revisionist historians use that to argue that blaming him for the Lavender Scare is a smear. They are wrong. Joe McCarthy promoted the Lavender Scare and there is a transcript of him that proves them wrong.