Specific examples of Republican corruption and perversion, in
alphabetical order:
Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to some of
the most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable
company to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers. Daily Kos
article
Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator from Puerto Rico, was
sentenced to 13 years in prison for molestation of his daughter and her
friend for eight-year period starting when they were 9. Full Article
Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist from Colorado, arrested on
suspicion of ***ual assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges
related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having ***
with her. Source Also accused of ***ually assaulting another girl.
Denver ABC Article
Jim Bakker, televangelist with Pat Robertson at Robertson's Christian
Broadcasting network. Committed adultery with Jessica Hahn [1] and then
used charitable donations to pay her hush money[2]. Fellow
televangelists say he's gay. [3][4]Indicted on 23 federal charges of
fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering [5]. Merrill Robert Barter,
Republican County Commissioner from Maine, pleaded guilty to unlawful
***ual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Booth Bay Register Article
Robert Bauman, Republican congressman and anti-gay activist from
Maryland, was charged with having *** with a 16-year-old boy he picked
up at a gay bar. Source: Wa****ngton Blade
Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector from Virginia,
pleaded guilty to possession of child ****ography (including children as
young as 3 years old) on his home computer and was sentenced to 30
months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Conservative Babylon
William Bennett, Drug Czar under George H. W. Bush, compulsive gambler
who has had to wire as much as $1.4 million to cover gambling losses in
a 2 month period. NY Press Article | Wa****ngton Monthly Article
Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his
family members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens.
Editor and Publisher article
Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a
California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and
possession of child ****ography. Sacramento Bee article
John Bolton: George W. Bush's latest Ambassador to United Nations.
Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton's first wife, Christina Bolton,
was forced to engage in group *** have not been refuted by the State
Department. Raw Story Article
Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General of Georgia, prosecuted the
famous "Bowers vs. Hardwick" case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws.
Admitted to a 10-year adulterous affair Slate article
Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley
Town****p Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy
with a 13-year old boy. Source
Jeffrey Buley (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36931.htm),
New
York Republican Party's top lawyer, and senior political adviser to Gov.
Pataki (R), arrested for assaulting his wife in a drunken rage. They
have two young children.
Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party. Infamous serial rapist
who murdered 16 women. Source: BBC
Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: With his success due in great part to
sup****t from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat,
then immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children),
married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the
unheard-of salary of $97,500. Conservative Babylon
John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist from Pensacola,
Florida, convicted of ***ually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home
for troubled girls that he ran. Source: Pensacola News Journal
Dan Burton, Republican Congressman from Indiana who, while married,
fathered a child by another woman. Salon.com Article
Keola Childs, Republican County Councilman from Hawaii, pleaded guilty
to ***ual assault in the first degree for molesting a male
child.Honolulu Star-Bulletin Article
Kevin Coan, Republican St. Louis Election Board official, arrested and
charged with trying to buy *** from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on
the Internet. Source: Newmax
Roy Cohn, continually condemned gays and gay rights. Was a closet gay
who died of AIDS. Wikipedia Article
Dan Crane, Republican Congressman from Illinois, married, father of six.
Had *** with a minor working as a congressional page. Salon.com article
Paul Crouch Televangelist, Former President of Trinity Broadcasting
Network (TBN). Paid $425,000 in hush money in an attempt to cover up a
gay affair. Christianity Today article
Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian
groups, convicted of ***ual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution
and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of
126 years in prison. Investigators estimated that he spent up to
$5,000,000 on prostitutes.
Missoulian Article on the trial | Missoulian Article
Richard A. Delgaudio, Republican fundraiser and Bush pioneer, was found
guilty of child **** charges. WBAL Channel article
Peter Dibble, Republican legislator from Connecticut pleaded no contest
to having an inappropriate relation****p with a 13-year-old girl. News
Channel 8 Article
Brian J. Doyle, Deputy Press Secretary for U.S. Department of Homeland
Security. On March 12, 2006, Doyle contacted a 14-year-old girl whose
profile was posted on the Internet, and initiated a ***ually explicit
conversation with her. The girl was actually an undercover Polk County
Sheriff s Computer Crimes detective. Doyle knew that the girl was 14
years old, and he told her who he was and that he worked for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security. During future online chats, Doyle gave
the undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl his office phone
number and his government-issued cell phone number, so that they could
have telephone conversations, in addition to their online chatting.
Doyle used the Internet to send hard-core ****ographic movie clips to
the girl and used the AOL Instant Messenger chat service to have
explicit ***ual conversations with her. [6]
Nicholas Elizondo, Republican director of the "Young Republican
Federation" molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six
years in prison. Halfway down this Bakersfield Californian article
Larry Dale Floyd, Republican Constable in Denton County, Texas Precinct
Two. Arrested for allegedly crossing state lines to have *** with an
8-year old child and was charged with 7 related offenses. Age 62 at time
of arrest. Dallas News Article | Atrios Article
John Fund, of the Wall Street Journal, a prominent anti-abortion
columnist and GOP fund raiser. He lost his position after it was
revealed that he impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and then
encouraged her to abort his child. American Politics Journal Article
Jeff Gannon Partisan blogger with no journalism credentials and a fake
name who got invited to Bush's Press conferences. Is also a pimp and a
gay prostitute. Truthout Article. See also dKospedia's page on Jeff
Gannon.
Jack W. Gardner, Republican Councilman from Pennsylvania, had been
convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. when the Republican Party,
knowing of these crimes, put him on the ballot. Article with do***ents
Richard Gardner, a Nevada State Representative (R), admitted to
molesting his two daughters. Review Journal Article
Newt Gingrich, Republican from Georgia, married three times. Gingrich
campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral *** while
he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he was filing
for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer
treatments. Salon Article
Philip Giordano, Republican mayor from Connecticut sentenced to 37 years
for forcing two 8 and 10 year old girls to perform oral *** on him in
his City Hall office. NBC Article | Newsday Article
Matthew Glavin, President and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation,
big player in the Clinton Impeachment, and many anti-gay jihads, has
been arrested multiple times for public indecency, one time fondling the
crotch of the officer who was arresting him. Full Article
Mark A. Grethen, Republican activist from Virginia, convicted on six
counts of *** crimes involving children. Orlando Weekly article
Jon Grunseth, Republican businessman and candidate for Minnesota
governor, withdrew his candidacy after allegations surfaced that he went
swimming in the **** with four underage girls, including his daughter,
and tried to grope one. "I've made some mistakes" he said. USA Today
article
Dr. W. David Hager, Bush appointee from Kentucky, member of Focus on the
Family's Physician Resource Council, player in movement to ban the
morning-after-pill. Had an adulterous affair, before divorcing his wife
he ***ually abused her, including sodomizing her in her sleep. Article
Mark Harris, Republican city councilman from Wisconsin who is described
as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly
having *** with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
John Hathaway, Republican Senate candidate from Maine, was accused of
having *** with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy
after the allegations were re****ted in the media. Source: Casco Bay
weekly
Howard Scott Heldreth, anti-abortion activist who gained fame during the
Schiavo media-circus, was convicted of two charges of raping a child in
2002. page at Florida Department of Law Enforcement's ***ual
Offender/Predator Unit
Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor from Des Moines, Iowa,
introduced by Bush on the campaign trail, and promoted his policies.
Says he sup****ts Bush's values. Two months later, this married father of
four turned himself into police, charged with the ***ual exploitation of
a child. Article | Commentary
Also signed an ad (that called for criminally prosecuting business that
sell ****), together with another pastor who was repeatedly busted for
public masturbation.
Neal Horsley, anti-abortion activist from Georgia. Has called for the
arrest of all homo***uals. Admitted on the Fox News Radio's The Alan
Colmes Show, that he's had *** with mules. Put photographs on his Web
site of ****d men engaging in homo***ual acts and a **** woman engaging
in bestiality amid shots of grotesquely maimed fetuses. Drug dealer
convicted of possession of ha****sh with intent to sell. He calls for
"the establishment of a new government, one that can obey God's plan for
government."
Henry Hyde, Republican Congressman from Illinois, Judge who oversaw
Clinton's impeachment proceedings, prominent opponent of reproductive
rights, who had an extramarital affair with a woman who was married and
had three children, during the course of which she and her husband were
divorced. Salon.com article
Don Haidl, Assistant Sheriff of Orange Country, in violation of
California's rape ****eld law, led a smear campaign against the child his
son poisoned and then violently gang-raped on videotape, adding up to 24
felony counts. He said that his son "acted accordingly" because the
child was a "****". The full gruesome story, with many newspaper
articles.
Paul Ingram, Republican Party leader of Thurston County, Wa****ngton,
pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years
in federal prison. Source: The Olympian Article
Bill Janklow, former S. Dakota Governor and Congressman, arrested for
drunk driving, disorderly conduct, assaulting an officer, and indecent
exposure in 1974. Pardoned his son-in-law for multiple drunk driving
convictions in 2002. Resigned congressional seat due to a felony
manslaughter conviction in a reckless driving incident (running a stop
sign at 70 mph)in 2003 that resulted in the death of farmer, Vietnam
veteran, and motorcyclist Randy Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minnesota.
Janklow served 100 days of a possible 11-year sentence. Janklow sought
and received immunity from civil damages on the grounds that he was
traveling on business related to his role as a congressman when the
killing of Scott occurred. Janklow also petitioned to get back (and was
granted) his license to practice law in the state of South Dakota. Link
from American Motorcyclist Association webpage - [7]
Earl Kimmerling, from Indiana, sentenced to 40 years in prison after he
confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a
gay couple from adopting her. Anderson, IN, Mayor Mark Lawler and
Republican State Reps. Jack Lutz of Anderson, IN, and Woody Burton of
Greenwood, IN, sup****ted him.Source
a.. Randy Steven Kraft Republican serial killer convicted of 16
murders and suspected of at least 51 others. [8]
I. Lewis Libby, former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to
Vice President Dick Cheney. In 1996 published a novel containing bizarre
***ual content, including bestiality and pedophilia.Full Details (Oh
yeah, and he's also been indicted on obstruction of justice, perjury and
making false statements, charges adding up to 10 years in prison.)
Rush Limbaugh, triple-divorcee[9], 30-pill a day drug addict. Goodies
from The Smoking Gun.com
Donald Lukens, Former Ohio Republican Congressman, was found guilty of
having *** with a minor - a girl he was accused of sleeping with since
she was 13. Also convicted of taking $15,000 in bribes from the
operators of a trade school while he was a congressman. A U.S. District
Court jury in Wa****ngton deliberated for just one hour before reaching
the verdict. Time Article
Pat McPherson, Douglas County, Nebraska Election Commissioner. Arrested
for fondling a 17-year-old girl. Article
Jon Matthews, Republican talk show host in Houston, was indicted for
indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under
the age of 17. Source: ABC News
Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in
Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee's Marriage Protection act,
getting divorced (as of April 2005) because of an affair he was having
with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection
Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an
amendment, however, which stated that "Adultery is deemed to be a threat
to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in
Tennessee." [10] [11]
Nicholas Morency, Republican anti-abortion activist from Cape May
County, NJ, pleaded guilty to possessing child ****ography on his
computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor
The Dallas Morning News article.
Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman from Sparta, NJ, was
arrested for distributing what experts call "some of the most offensive
material in the child ****ography world" - a video clip of a 5-year-old
girl being raped. Daily Record News Article
Brent Parker Utah State Representative. Arrested for soliciting *** from
an undercover officer posing as a male prostitute. KSL News Article
|Deseret News Article
Mark Pazuhanich, Republican judge from Monroe County, PA, pleaded no
contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years
probation. Pocono Record article
George Roche III, carried on a 19 year affair with his son's wife, while
serving as president of Hillsdale College in Michigan, which "emphasizes
the im****tance of the common moral truths that bind all Americans, while
recognizing the im****tance of religion for the maintenance of a free
society."
Beverly Russell, County Chairman of the Christian Coalition as well as a
member of the South Carolina Republican Party's executive committee,
***ually molested his step-daughter, Susan Smith, who later drowned her
two children. Herald-Journal Article |Commentary on Newsweek Article
Rick Santorum, used $100,000 of PA state funds earmarked for that
state's school children to educate his own children, who were not
residents of Pennsylvania. source
(http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04323/413787.stm)
Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman from Pensacola, Florida,
currently a conservative talk show host. Resigned his congressional seat
abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an
affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his
office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri
for falsifying information in an autopsy re****t, and suspended in
Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving
conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them
because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."
Ed Schrock, two-term Republican Congressman from Virginia, with a 92%
approval rating from the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal
Marriage Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife
and kids. Withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him
soliciting for gay *** were circulated.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes
family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had
her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having
had *** before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery
while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes
divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for **** photos which are
available online.
John Scmitz, right-wing Republican Congressman, who had had his
committee chair****p taken away from him in the California State Senate
after issuing a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced
out of office in 1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two
children out of wedlock with one of his students. He was caught because
his baby was admitted to hospital for having hair tied so tightly around
his ***** that it was almost severed. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau,
was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students,
and giving birth to two of his children. Wikipedia article
Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado
State Representative, fired after child ****ography was found in his
possession. Rocky Mountain News article With his political career over,
he went to work in the hard-core ****ography industry for Platinum X
Pictures, owned by his daughter, **** starlet Jewel De'Nyle (Stephany
Schwarz). Wikipedia article
Don Sherwood, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives
representing the 10th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. Eventually
admitted to an affair with a woman 30 years younger than him, after she
accused him of physical abuse and attempting to choke her. Post-Gazette
Article
Tom Shortridge. Republican campaign consultant and former head of the
South Bay, CA, Republican Club, was sentenced to three years probation
for taking **** photographs of a 15-year old girl. Los Angeles Times
Article
Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Republican City Councilman from Wrightsville, PA,
pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in
prison. *** Offender Registry page | Article
Craig J. Spence, Republican lobbyist, organized orgies with child
prostitutes in the White House during the 1980s. Full page including
Wa****ngton Times article Discovery Channel do***entary
Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in
"family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit against
Nancy Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for
falsely claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been
married 5 times. Article
Roger Stone, Republican dirty-tricks operative, led the mob that shut
down the Miami-Dade County recount; advisor for Bob Dole and Arlen
Specter's Presidential campaigns, owner of Wa****ngton, D.C.-based Ikon
Public Affairs. Place X-rated ads for group *** with his wife, Nydia.
Claimed he was framed, even though the ads were placed with his credit
card and used his P.O. Box. [12]
Ronald Reagan First president to be divorced (from a woman who had been
married two or three times before him none of which seems to bother the
religious right).
Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, said during a sermon "I'm trying to find
the correct name for it . this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic
stupidity of men marrying men. . I've never seen a man in my life I
wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at
me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died." Had an affair
with a prostitute.
David Swartz, Republican County Commissioner from Ohio, pleaded guilty
to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years
in prison. Rocky Mountain News Article
Randall Terry, Right to Life activist, founder of Operation Rescue,
involved in the Terri Schiavo protests. Once imprisoned for sending
former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His son Jamiel is gay;
his daughter Tila had *** outside of marriage, became pregnant, had a
miscarriage - she is no longer welcome in his home; his daughter Ebony
had 2 children outside of wedlock and became Muslim. He has campaigned
against infidelity and birth control, gays and unwed mothers. Terry
himself was censured by his church after committing adultery.
Strom Thurmond, Republican Senator from South Carolina and racist,
impregnated a 15-year old African American maid. (BBC Article)
Robin Vanderwall, Republican strategist and Citadel Military College
graduate, convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting *** from
boys and girls over the internet. Virginian-Pilot Article
Robert Waltrip, Bush campaign contributor. Runs a funeral company which
had to settle a lawsuit because bodies were being dug up and dumped in
the woods. According to Fox News, Waltrip's company, a cemetery company
called Service Cor****ation International (also known as Dignity
Memorial) was "recycling" graves, removing the bodies that were there
originally and throwing them in the woods to use the space to house new
customers at two Jewish cemeteries in Florida. George W. Bush, who had
met with Waltrip, was subpoenaed but refused to testify in the case.
Jim Wesr, Spokane Mayor. Sup****ted a bill, which failed, would have
barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and
some state agencies. Voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets
telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. Proposed that "any
touching of the ***ual or other intimate parts of a person" among teens
be criminalized. Had a ***ual affair with an 18 year old boy.Source:
Spokesman Review
Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative (R), was arrested
on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under
16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). Tennessean Article
Stephen White, Republican preacher. Was arrested after allegedly
offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy in West Chester, PA, for permission to
perform oral *** on him. Daily Pennsylvanian article | Daily Yale News
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