Thread by @AmoneyResists

The @GOP is not the party of family values, fiscal conservatism, religious freedom, or anything even remotely resembling morality. @mattgaetz admitting to raping a minor made me realize we need a list of all Republicans who've been credibly accused of sexual misconduct (THREAD)

Let’s start with the ones who actually faced SOME degree of accountability for their illicit behavior and work up to those who still somehow occupy seats in the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the Supreme Court, or the halls of Mar-a-Lago instead of a prison cell.

1.) Pat Meehan resigned on April 27, 2018, after months of misconduct allegations. Meehan used taxpayer money to pay off a former aide who accused him of sexual harassment. She claimed he tried to start a romantic relationship with her and became hostile when she rejected him.

2.) George H. W. Bush was accused of inappropriately touching actress Heather Lind during an event. She claimed that the former President “touched me from behind from his wheelchair.” She stated that he did this to her multiple times throughout the photograph session.

3.) Roy Moore lost his campaign for the senate after at least 9 girls accused him of sexual misconduct—ranging from 14 to 28 years in age. Moore denied the allegations, but did not deny “dating teenagers over the age of 16” (still illegal). Moore is considering running again.

4.) Jeff Hoover (R-KY) resigned as the Speaker of the House of Representatives in November of 2017 after multiple sexual harassment allegations were made against him.

5.) Jeff Kruse (R-OR) was removed from all committee assignments in October of 2017 after multiple sexual harassment allegations were made by fellow senators Sara Gelser and Elizabeth Steiner Hayward. He ultimately resigned on March 15, 2018.

6.) Wes Goodman (R-OH) resigned on November 14th, 2017 after a non-staffer witnessed him and another adult male having sex in his office. After his resignation, allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Goodman including the assault of an 18 year old in 2015.

7.) Newt Gingrich (R-GA) resigned from the House after admitting to having an affair with a staffer while he was married to his 2nd wife, while leading the Impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury (something Republicans used to claim to believe was an impeachable offense).

8.) Trent Franks abruptly resigned from the House of Representatives on December 8th, after Speaker Paul Ryan confronted him about allegations of sexual misconduct from at least 3 separate accusers, and announced the Ethics Committee was planning an investigation.

9.) Blake Farenthold, former member of the House of Representative agreed not to seek reelection after reports surfaced that he settled a sexual harassment claim made by a former employee in 2014 who alleged that Farenthold engaged in sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

10.) Don Shooter (R-AZ) was expelled from the House of Representatives on February 1st, 2018 by an overwhelming vote after an investigation corroborated a long period of sexual harassment including a fellow lawmaker. He tried to run for state senator in August 28th and lost.

11.) Jack Latvia (R-FL) resigned from the senate in Jan 5, 2018 after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced from multiple women. In December, the Senate agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a complaint filed by a legislative aide accusing him of sexual harassment.

12.) Nick Sauer (R-IL) resigned from the House on August 1st 2018 after posting nude pictures of his ex-girlfriend on a fake social media account under her name. Sauer was indicted on Jan 9th, 2019 on 12 felony counts of disseminating private sexual images of multiple women.

13.) Brandon Hixton (R-ID) resigned on October 19, 2017 while under criminal investigation for molesting 2 girls, including a young female relative for more than 10 years. Nixon committed suicide on Jan 9th, 2018, just before his ex-wife and two others were scheduled to testify.

14.) Bill Dix (R-IO) resigned from his position as State Senate Majority Leader on March 12th of 2018 after a video of him kissing a lobbyist at a bar was posted online. This did not specifically violate the senate’s ethics code but was viewed as extremely inappropriate.

15.) John Moore (R-MI) resigned in December of 2017 after multiple women filed complaints against him for sexual harassment and inappropriate touching

16.) Tony Cornish (R-MN) resigned from office on November 30, 2017 following a multitude of allegations from several lobbyists that he had repeatedly propositioned them for sex.

17.) Clifford Hite (R-OH) resigned November 15, 2018, after being accused of sexually harassing a female state employee.

18.) Dan Kirby (R-OK) resigned in February of 2017 after two former assistants alleged he sexually harassed them, including one with whom he had reached a confidential wrongful-termination settlement that included a nearly $50K payment of taxpayer funds.

19.) Ralph Shortey (R-OK) resigned in March of 2017 and subsequently pleaded guilty to a federal charge of child sex trafficking after being accused of hiring a 17-year old boy for sex. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $125,000 in financial restitution.

20.) Bryce Marlett (R-OK) resigned in March of 2017 after being charged with sexual battery by an Uber driver who alleged that the lawmaker who picked him up from a restaurant in the capital city groped him in transit.

21.) Nicholas Kettle (R-RI) resigned on February 22nd, 2018 after Senate leaders expelled him after he was charged with extorting a high-school male for sex in 2011 and video voyeurism that involved trading nude photos of his ex-girlfriend and a NH woman without their consent.

22.) Mathew Wollmann (R-SD) resigned in January of 2017 after admitting to sexual contact with multiple interns, which a legislative panel concluded was a clear abuse of his position.

23.) Mark Lovell (R-TN) resigned in February of 2017 after a House ethics panel concluded that he had violated the legislature’s sexual harassment policy on multiple occasions.

24.) Jon Standard (R-UT) resigned on February 6, 2018, citing “personal and family concerns.” Later, media reports surfaced that Standard had been reimbursed with taxpayer funds for at least two hotel stays in 2017 during which he met up and had sex with a prostitute.

25.) Matt Manweller (R-WA) resigned on Jan 14th, 2019, after allegations were made re: a relationship with a former high school student in the 1990’s and of sexual harassment at Central Washington University (where he was fired in August of 2018 as a political science professor).

26.) David Wilson (R-AL) was placed on probation and disciplinary action in December of 2017 by senate leaders after a review found he engaged in retaliation against an accuser who alleged that he had sexually harassed her.

27.) David Stinger (R-AZ) was removed from his House committee on Jan 30, 2019 pending a House Ethics Committee investigation. It was reported that on Jan 25, Stinger had been charged and sentenced in 1983 in Maryland for a sexual offense, which was later expunged.

28.) Devon Mathis (R-CA) was required to participate in sensitivity training and additional sexual harassment training after an investigation concluded on June 20, 2018 that he “frequently engaged in ‘sexual locker room talk’” (where have we heard that phrase before?) 🤔

29.) Joel Anderson (R-CA) was reprimanded on Sept 14, 2018 after an investigation into a complaint that he had rubbed the shoulders of a lobbyist and “threatened to slap her” while he was “somewhat inebriated” during an encounter in August at a restaurant across from the Capitol.

30.) Randy Baumgartner (R-CO) was removed from all committee posts on May 3, 2018, after an independent investigator found he created a hostile work environment since 2016. He stepped down as chairman of the transportation committee and agreed to undergo sensitivity training.

31.) Jim DeCesare (R-KY) was removed from a legislative committee chairmanship in November of 2017 after signing a secret sexual harassment settlement stemming from a text message sent to a woman.

32.) Brian Linder (R-KY) was removed from his chairmanship position after allegations of sexual harassment surfaced. He did not seek reelection.

33.) Michael Meredith (R-KY) was removed from a legislative committee chairmanship in November of 2017 after it was revealed that he had been accused of sexual harassment and vulgar statements to female employees.

34.) Jim Knoblack (R-MN) ended his reelection campaign on September 21st, 2018, after allegations were made by his adult daughter that he had inappropriately touched her on numerous occasions over the course of her teen years.

35.) Eric Schleien (R-NH) was sentenced on November 9, 2018 to 30 days in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting a 16 year-old girl the previous month. The girl claims Schleien engaged in sexually explicit talk and groped her while driving together.

36.) Steven McLaughlin (R-NY) was formally sanctioned in November of 2017 by a legislative ethics panel after allegations that he asked a female staffer for nude photos and leaked her name when she filed a harassment complaint against him.

37.) Nick Miccarelli (R-PA), was accused of physically abusing state Rep. Tarah Toohill during a relationship that ended in 2012 and physically intimidating her at the Capitol. Miccarelli was also under investigation for allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2014.

38.) Brian Ellis (R-PA), was removed as chairman of the House Consumer Affairs Committee on Jan 25, 2019, after it was reported that a criminal investigation had been opened into allegations that Ellis raped an incapacitated woman.

39.) Joe Fain (R-WA) lost his state senate seat in the Nov 6, 2018 election after being accused on Sept 27th by a woman of raping her in 2007. The woman claimed she was inspired to come forward by Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against Kavanaugh (I’ll get to him, don’t worry).

40.) Rob Brooks (R-WI) resigned as assistant Assembly majority leader on Sept 26th of 2018 after admitting to making “inappropriate comments under the influence of alcohol” to 3 female lawmakers. These included sexual remarks to 2 of the women and a racist epithet to the 3rd.

41.) Travis Allen (R-CA) was accused of inappropriately touching a female staff member in early 2013. Allen did not seek reelection, then ran for Governor of California in June of 2018 and lost in the primary.

42.) Jack Tate (R-CO) was accused of making inappropriate comments and touching an intern in 2017. The investigation was closed in March of 2018 when another Republican determined that the behavior didn’t meet the criteria for sexual misconduct 😡

43.) Larry Crowder (R-CO) was accused by state Representative Susan Lontine of pinching her buttocks in 2015 and making an inappropriate sexual comment to her in August of 2017.

44.) David Shafer (R-GA) was accused of sexual harassment in April of 2018 by the Senate Ethics Committee. They later claimed that they had insufficient evidence to substantiate these claims.

45.) James Holtzclaw (R-ID) was accused of making inappropriate comments to at least two people during the 2017 session.

46.) Brian Bosma (R-IN) received oral sex from a legislative intern in 1992. While she claimed the act was consensual, she said he “pressured her into it.” Bosma paid a law firm over $40K in campaign funds to dig up unflattering information in an attempt to smear & discredit her

47.) Dan Johnson (R-KY) committed suicide in December of 2017, just days after being publicly accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in 2013.

48.) Jim Steward (R-KY) was accused in March of 2018 of making unwanted verbal advances on a female courier in the Capitol in 2015.

49.) Rod Hamilton (R-MN) publicly apologized on April 26 of 2018 for “inadvertently” touching a woman without her consent “while attempting to comfort her.” [PSA: Sexual assault/unwelcome physical contact is not comforting to anyone].

50.) Andy Sanborn (R-NH) paid an intern to keep quiet about an inappropriate comment he made to her in 2013. Sanborn was temporarily not allowed to have an aide after initially refusing to participate in sexual harassment training. He lost his seat on September 11th of 2018.

51.) Rick Perales (R-OH) acknowledged in March 2018 that he engaged in “flirtatious and inappropriate texting” with constituent Jocelyn Smith in 2015. Smith also accused the lawmaker of forcibly kissing and choking her.

52.) Bill Seitz (R-OH) was forced to apologize by the House speaker for making offensive remarks—including “jokes” about other sexual misconduct scandals—during a January 2018 going-away party for a House staff member.

53.) Matt Huffman (R-OH) issued a public apology for making offensive remarks that included a suggestive reference to female genitalia during the same January 2018 going-away party.

54.) Michael Henne (R-OH) was forced to undergo sensitivity training and lost a committee vice chairmanship after being accused of sexual harassment in November of 2017 and making inappropriate remarks to colleagues in 2015.

55.) David Byrd (R-TN) was accused on March 27, 2018 of sexual misconduct by three women who alleged they were abused by Byrd as teenagers when he served as their high school basketball coach (several decades ago). Byrd went on to win reelection in spite of these allegations.

56.) Charles Schwerine (R-TX) was accused in September of 2018 of sending a sexually explicit picture and text message to a University of Texas graduate student he had met at a campus event during the summer.

57.) Senator Arthur Brown (R-UT) and founder of the Utah State Republican Party, was shot dead by his longtime mistress Anne Madison Bradley in 1906 for having a second mistress. Bradley was ultimately acquitted for this murder on the basis of temporary insanity.

58.) President Warren G. Harding reportedly had affairs with Carrie Phillips and Nan Britton during the 1910’s and 1920’s, prior to his death in 1923.

59.) Senator Styles Bridges (R-NH) threatened to expose the son of U.S. Senator Lester Hunt (D-WY) as gay unless Hunt resigned from the senate, which would give the GOP majority control of the chamber. Hunt refused, but did not seek re-election, and later shot himself in 1954.

60.) Representative Donald Lukens (R-OH) was convicted in 1989 of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” for raping a 16 year old girl. He was sentenced to a mere 30 days in prison and fined a mere $500.

61.) Representative Robert Bauman (R-MD) was charged with attempting to solicit sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute in November of 1980.

62.) Representative Jon Hinson (R-MI) resigned after being charged in 1981 with “attempted sodomy” for performing oral sex on a male employee of the Library of Congress.

63.) Representative John G. Schmitz (R-CA) leader of the ultra-conservative “John Birch Society,” admitted to having a second family in 1982 but refused to accept or support the two children he produced who became wards of the state.

64.) Representative Thomas Evans (R-DE) went golfing in Florida with a nude model and lobbyist Paula Parkinson, who later claimed her techniques had been “unusually tactile.” Evans apologized for any appearance of impropriety, but was still voted out of office in 1982.

65.) Representative Dan Crane (R-IL) was censured on July 20, 1983, for engaging in the “Congressional Page Sex Scandal” in which members of Congress had sex with ‘pages,’ which were HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS brought in as interns who were interested in pursuing a future in politics.

66.) Rep Ernie Konnyu (R-CA) was accused of sexual harassment in 1987 by a female aide who claimed he asked her to move her name tag because it was “drawing too much attention to her breasts.” When confronted about this, his response was “She is not exactly heavily stacked, OK?”

67.) Representative Arlan Stangeland (R-MI) lost his campaign for reelection in 1990 mostly as a result of a scandal in which he made hundreds of long-distance phone calls on his House credit card to a female lobbyist from Virginia.

68.) Senator Robert Backwood (R-OR) resigned in 1995 after 29 women came forward with claims of sexual harassment, abuse, and assaults. His denials were ultimately found to be false, as his diaries contained entries in which he bragged about his exploitation of all of these women

69.) Representative Ken Calvert (R-CA) was found to have engaged in sex with a prostitute in 1993, but claimed that no money was involved, and he was not arrested. Calvert apologized several months later and admitted that his behavior was not acceptable for a federal official.

70.) Representative Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID)—who gained notoriety for calling for the resignation of President Bill Clinton—admitted that she had a six-year long affair with a married rancher in 1998 before she entered government.

71.) Representative Dan Burton (R-IN)—another vocal proponent of Clinton’s resignation/impeachment on the basis of "impropriety"—was later found (in 1998) to have engaged in an extramarital affair in 1983 with a former state employee which produced a child.

72.) Representative Robert Livingston (R-LO)—who of course also called for Clinton’s resignation/impeachment—was also found to have engaged in extramarital affairs of his own, for which his wife urged him to resign over so as not to appear a hypocrite. He did not.

73.) Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL) engaged in an extramarital sexual affair with a married woman who had three children from her marriage from 1965 to 1969. This revelation of course came to light as Hyde was joining the rest of the @GOP in calling for Clinton's resignation.

74.) Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), who voted to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998, later confessed in 2013 that he engaged in an extramarital affair in 1978 that produced a son.

75.) Representative Ed Schrock (R-VA) abandoned his 2004 attempt for a third term in Congress after being caught on tape soliciting sex with men after having aggressively opposed LGBT and gay rights issues in Congress, such as marriage equality and gays serving in the military.

76.) Representative Don Sherwood (R-PA) failed to win his reelection in 2008 following the revelations of a 5 year long extramarital affair with a woman named Cynthia Ore, who also accused him of physically abusing her.

77.) Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned his House seat when accused of sending sexually explicit e-mails to teenage male congressional pages (high school student interns).

78.) Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) was arrested on June 11, 2007, and charged with lewd conduct arising from his behavior in a men’s restroom at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.

79.) Representative Vito Fossella (R-NY) was arrested for drunk driving. Under questioning, the married congressman and father of three admitted to an extramarital affair with Laura Fay that produced a daughter.

80.) Senator John Ensign (R-NV) resigned his position as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee on June 16, 2009, after admitting he had an affair with the wife of a close friend, both of whom were working on his campaign.

81.) Representative Chip Pickering (R-MS)’s wife filed an alienation of affection lawsuit on July 16, 2009 against a woman with whom he'd had an extramarital affair. The lawsuit claimed the adulterous relationship ruined their marriage and his political career.

82.) Gov Mark Sanford (R-SC), in June of 2009, after having vanished from the state for nearly a week, publicly revealed that he’d engaged in an affair. He led his staff to believe he was going hiking on the Appalachian Trail, but actually went to visit his mistress in Argentina.

83.) Representative Mark Souder (R-IN), a staunch advocate of “family values” and “abstinence,” resigned in 2010 to avoid an ethics investigation into his admitted extramarital affair with a female staffer.

84.) Representative Chris Lee (R-NY) resigned in 2011 just hours after a news report came out that he had sent a shirtless picture of himself flexing his muscles to a woman via Craigslist, along with flirtatious emails.

85.) Representative Vance McAllister (R-LO)—a married father of five—was caught on a surveillance camera deeply kissing a married staffer. In response to several prominent republicans asking him to resign, he agreed to not seek reelection in 2016.

86.) Rep Dennis Hastert (R-IL/former House Speaker) pled guilty to structuring bank withdrawals to conceal deliberately unspecified misconduct against an unnamed individual. He later admitted to sexually abusing boys while working as a high school wrestling coach decades earlier.

Now, for the Republicans who inexplicably still occupy seats in our government...

87.) Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who admitted under oath to at least 6 affairs, including 2 with his patients and staffers while he was a physician at Grandview Medical Center. He also made his wife have two abortions while advocating for “pro-life” programs.

88.) Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) covered up the sexual abuse of DOZENS OF MINORS in the Ohio State University wrestling program by the team physician. On Feb 12th, 2020, one former member stated that Jordan “repeatedly cried and begged him not to corroborate accounts of sexual abuse.”

89.) Justice Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill & many other women in 1991, but was still confirmed & remains on the Supreme Court. His wife also funded 70 buses of MAGA terrorists to the Capitol for Trump’s Jan 6th insurrection that killed 5 people.

90.) Brett Kavanaugh was not only credibly accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford, he perjured himself at least 7 times during his confirmation and was still confirmed. He was nominated by an illegitimate POTUS and rammed through by a party of traitors & misogynists.

91.) Members of Congress who took part in Jan 6th are ineligible to hold office as they have committed sedition and must be removed, NOW. Not having enough votes to expel them does not preclude their arrest. These include: @RepBoebert; @RepMTG; @tedcruz; @HawleyMO; & @RepCawthorn

92.) Last and certainly least (except in terms of the need to immediately arrest) is Donald Trump himself, who committed countless crimes while he was in office and no longer has any immunity now that he is out of the WH.

ARREST. HIM. NOW.

Addendums:

#11 should say “resigned from the senate ON*” Jan 5, 2018, not “in.”

#13 should say “HIXTON* committed suicide,” not “Nixon.”

#20 should say “the lawmaker who HE PICKED UP*, not “who picked him up.”

I rarely make grammatical errors so it pains me to find 3.