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Although pardoned by Trump for federal stalking charges, Ken Kurson pleaded guilty in state court in a deal that avoids jail time and will allow his conviction to be changed to a lesser charge if he avoids additional crime. thehill.com/homenews/state…
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Dennis Perkins, former head of the Sheriff’s SWAT team in Livingston Parish, LA has been indicted for 150 accounts of rape, child sexual abuse, child pornography. He committed crimes with his wife and his lover. theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
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Donald Crerar, insurrectionist at the state and federal level who also makes terroristic threats to school board sexually assaulted a child but his lawyer got the case dismissed because his flag did not fly. kgab.com/tags/donald-cr…
Kevin Hohn, former Republican Mayor of Brookville, FL, has been charged with possession and distribution of images of the sexual abuse of children. hernandosun.com/2021/02/20/kev…
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John J. Griffin, former CNN producer and registered Republican, indicted for attempting to get minor children brought to him for illegal sexual activity and child sexual abuse. justice.gov/usao-vt/pr/con…
Michigan House candidate Republican Robert “RJ” Regan claimed he tells his daughters to “lie back and enjoy it” if rape is inevitable. fox8.com/news/gop-candi…
Paul Dyal, Jacksonville Florida pastor and registered Republican, was arrested for capital sexual battery of a child 11 or younger. The abuse is alleged to affect many people going back 30 years. jacksonville.com/story/news/cri…
William Henry Randall, 1998 Republican candidate for Congress in FL, was sentenced to 20 years for child sexual battery in 2021 jacksonville.com/story/news/cri…
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Sen. Joey Hensley (TN) was put on medical probation for prescribing to family members. He had affair with 2nd cousin, a consenting adult BUT he is her employer & her doctor making this an improper influence relationship. tennessean.com/story/news/202…
@dsimons1 @kelly2277 So this guy was #770. I had two 633s and did not notice. I am not going back over 100 tweets to repair
Former Blasdell NY Mayor Michael McGuire, a Republican, has been accused by three former students of sexual abuse while they were minors. buffalonews.com/news/local/cri…
Former Sweetwater, FL mayor, Republican Jose “Pepe” Diaz was accused of sexual harassment. He fired her after she complained. miaminewtimes.com/news/former-sw…
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Alan Moran, Republican Acting Mayor of Diamondhead, MS, was arrested on misdemeanour?!? Charges for touching a 17-year-old boy’s genitals and buying him beer. Why is this a misdemeanor? sunherald.com/news/local/cri…
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Alex Acosta, Jeffrey Epstein’s enabler and Trump cabinet pick, gave Epstein the “deal of a lifetime”, a nonprosecution agreement while failing to inform Epstein’s accusers. I thought I added him long ago, but didn't. miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
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Jeff Ford resigned from teaching high school when his sexual relationship with a student was discovered. Not criminal because she was of age, but still an abuse of power & position. He is Gov. Desantis’ faith advisor religionnews.com/2022/04/04/wil…
Hart County, GA, Commissioner Ricky Carter has been charged with aggravated assault and three counts of cruelty to children. County elections have okayed him running in the GOP primary in spite of the arrest. foxcarolina.com/2022/03/20/har…
Clay County Deputy Alejandro Carmona (registered Republican) has been charged with child solicitation, sending nude images of himself to a child jacksonville.com/story/news/cri…
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IL state leg candidate Tim McCullagh dropped out after accusations of grooming based on a botched investigation. Trying to extract data from a child’s phone, data was corrupted. Child’s family decided not to pursue charges. shawlocal.com/news/election/…
Ravi Zacharias, an evangelical leader who supported Rubio and then Trump, abused women and masturbated during massage sessions christianitytoday.com/news/2020/sept…
Pete Newman, a favorite at Christian camp Kanakuk, is being sued by yet more people he molested when they were boys. Convicted on 7 counts of abusing boys, he is serving 2 life sentences plus 30 years. news-leader.com/story/news/loc…
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Cary Rhodes, GOP mayor of Taylorsville, GA was convicted of trying to have sex with a child in an internet sting. He got 2 years in prison & 10 years on probation on one count of computer and electronic child exploitation. dailycitizen.news/news/local_new…
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Paul Reeves, former mayor of Ashland, KY - child pornography that he ordered from an undercover sting operation run by US Postal Service. Go, Postal Inspectors! He was watching when they showed up at his house. theintelligencer.com/news/article/E…
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Gregory J. Nies, Republican mayoral candidate for Lititz, PA - child pornography. He pled guilty. HE PLAYED SANTA!!!!
You may have noticed I am going through all the predators and creating a page with more than one piece of documentation, etc for all of them. A lot of people, when they get off probation, ask to get stuff purged. Successfully. Hopefully, this will keep some record remaining
But, while I do it, I am subscribing to a newspaper service so I can get screenshots of stories from local papers, etc. so I am trying to hurry so I don't have to keep subscribing for long so more activity than usual. I mean, 784 posts are needed at the moment. Yikes!
If anyone is interested in helping create this database, it will be tagged by state and categorized by crimes, so more useful than a twitter thread.
Early in my career, bottom of the ladder, I was assigned to go through the "archives" about a hundred unlabeled boxes of notes, flyers, and so on. I threw most of it away, but there were gems. One gem was notes from a training session by Kwame Ture in his Stokely days.
In the notes, there was this nugget of advice that has stuck with me all this time. "Push a negative and make it a positive." It works, too. We were doing a big voter registration drive that combined organizing Saturday schools with voter reg & recruited folks just out of prison
There was this whole idea of building a feeling of being part of the community/body politic reducing recidivism and creating the potential for organizing jobs through training, plus registering voters. Win-win-win. Anyway, there were "exposes" of organizations in IL, MI, & MO
On Thursday, a man identified by the initials T.C. went to @redrobinburgers in Clackamas County. He went with a group of people and the servers wants to separate the group of 8 rather than seat them together. They let white groups sit together.
The man thought the staff of @redrobinburgers were treating his group unfairly and suggested there was racism involved in their unwillingness to let them sit together. The manager was no help. He called their group a "big gang"
Well, they sit down and order. T. C. gets a salad and eats a fair amount of it before realizing the salad contained semen. He had eaten some and began vomiting in disgust. He took pictures and authorities took sample & confirm @redrobinburgers had served contaminated salad
My organizing life was in groups that worked from Midwest Academy model. I wish some folks who are pushing issues today would at least give it a look. Because one of their rules is issues should be winnable. Now it seems the opposite.
I remember the 1st time I came upon an organization that didn't want a complete win. It was one of the PIRGs, their ED objected to running a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage with a COLA so the MW would just increase automatically.
They thought it better to do another simple MW increase because MW ballot measures were so useful in getting their voters to vote. This is true, more liberal voters did turn out when minimum wage was on the ballot. COLA would end that bump.
I think everyone has some inexplicable event in their life that they would like to understand. Many people attribute it to some supernatural entity or event, but those of us who reject the supernatural are left with our unexplained event and lots of questions. This is mine.
I was in 8th grade and lived in town while my parents were building our home at the lake from salvaged lumber. They bought a desanctified church for $75 to tear down. One day, leaving school for home, I walked out the wrong door and got on a bus.
Now there was a long line of 15 buses because my school served many communities. I came back to self-awareness and quickly got off the bus and started toward home. Next thing I knew I was back on the bus. The driver asked why I was on the bus & I told him my parents were at
Yesterday I did a thread on how social justice issues like abortion rights & Black liberation are economic justice issues & how the performative progressives just don't get it. I wish I added that thinking Black issues are limited to criminal justice & welfare is racist
That was one of the things that pissed me off the most with Bernie in 2016, the idea that legalizing weed, freeing drug offenders, and supporting the safety net was speaking to the concerns of Black people. It's like getting your platform from a TV crime drama writer's room.
Now, I'm white so I haven't the experience to formulate a "Black agenda" but I do know some things I would include that don't fall into the "crime and poverty" tropes inherited from Sen. Moynihan's epic myth-making study on the Black family