For any Republicans reading this blog, you may wish to skip this particular post.
Are you concerned about Family Values? Are you not down with Gay Rights? Concerned about child abuse? Think we need more politicians with conservative Christian values in office? Have we got the party for you!
Here are some politicians (and relevant others) that have done their best to uphold those Family Values that many Republicans hold dear:
Republican legislator
Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls under the age of 16.
Republican city councilman
Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found guilty of fondling underage girls.
Republican congressional aide
Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for
having sex with a 14-year old boy.
Republican County Commissioner
Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.
Republican prosecutor
Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.
Republican Mayor
Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a six-year period.
Republican County Board Candidate
Brent Schepp was charged with
molesting a 14-year old girl and
killed himself three days later.
Republican Congressman
Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after
"sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Republican executive
Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition
Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Constable
Larry Dale Floyd pleaded
guilty to
charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won
elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
Republican judge
Mark Pazuhanich pleaded
no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican Party leader
Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.
Republican petition drive manager
Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
Republican County Chairman
Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old
girl.
Republican teacher and former city councilman
John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
Republican campaign worker
Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.
Republican Mayor
Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican Mayor
Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet.
Republican Mayor
John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.
Republican County Commissioner
David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was
sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican legislator
Edison Misla Aldarondo was
sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Committeeman
John R. Curtin was convicted of molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to 18 months in prison.
Republican anti-abortion activist
Howard Scott Heldreth is a
convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican zoning supervisor,
Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president
Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a
sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered. (NOTE: He's also a serial killer (BTK). Speaking of, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered to support several Republican candidates, and worked on theri campaigns, according to true crime author Ann Rule's book, The Stranger Beside Me.)
Republican anti-abortion activist
Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican campaign consultant
Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator
Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican pastor
Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush
commended during the 2004 presidential
campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator
Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an
inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican advertising consultant
Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
Republican fundraiser
Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican lobbyist
Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican Congressman
Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser
Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist
Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of
sex crimes involving children.
Republican campaign chairman
Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was
arrested again five years later on the same charge.
Republican Congressman
Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader
Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
Republican Judge
Ronald C. Kline pleaded
guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist
Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee Chairman
Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist
Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide
Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate
John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher
Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host
Jon Matthews pleaded
guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist
Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader
Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican election board official
Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years
probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician
Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican legislator
Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist
John Allen Burt was found
guilty of molesting a 15-year old
girl.
Republican County Councilman
Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist
John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate
Richard Gardner admitted to
molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine
Jack W. Gardner was convicted of
molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner
Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman
Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to
raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist
Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative,
Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate
Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting
sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman
Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman
Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend
Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation"
Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp.
Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups,
Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found
guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
Republican Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner's report
here and his full report
here.
I DID NOT write or do the research for this post, I just found it horrifying.
Original source here at
The Obfuscation Report (8 August, 2007)
Okay, Republicans! It's safe to come out, it's all over!