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!!!!
Ryan Locksarn, aide to Republican senator Lamar Alexander, killed himself while awaiting trial on possessing child sexual abuse pornography charges. theguardian.com/world/2014/jan…
Ronnie Hale, Republican Alderman in Southaven, MS, pleaded guilty to transporting child pornography and was sentenced to seven years in prison. commercialappeal.com/story/news/cri…
Town Councilman David Bernard (R) in Greybull, WY, David Bernard, was charged with possessing and distributing child pornography cowboystatedaily.com/2022/02/08/gre…
Former Mahwah, NJ, City Councilman & DAY CARE CENTER OPERATOR was sentenced to probation for possessing child pornography. The plea deal will not require he register as a sex offender. The day care center has new owners. patch.com/new-jersey/mah…
Carl Clinton Ballman, a GOP legislative aide in Missouri, pleaded guilty to attempting to receive child pornography. The deal dropped the more serious charge of soliciting a minor. He was sentenced to five years. komu.com/news/former-go…
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Holdenville City Councilmember Richard West (R) was convicted of possessing child pornography & soliciting a minor, a child he met at age 12. in his role as a member of Bikers Against Child Abuse The other guy is #430 news9.com/story/5e346d40…
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Ex-mayor David G. Landfair of Gulf Breeze, FL, is not on the list for consensual activities, but for sending unwanted graphic pics & msg. & contacting former students from high school & lying to school investigation pnj.com/story/news/201…
@dsimons1 @kelly2277@socialsaul@kalicayo He is also implicated in child pornography case, having exchanged 72 texts with this guy, text that inexplicably vanished. Warning, the document with transcript of other texts is sickening. Do not read. kxnet.com/news/top-stori…
Cliff C. Maloney, Jr, a libertarian Republican activist on the far right has been charged with four felony charges alleging assault of impaired or unconscious victims. Other women have come forward. h/t: @Christin210 thedailybeast.com/young-american…
Gary Binkley is a Cheatham County TN Commissioner. He was indicted on four counts of rape and sexual battery. He is on the ballot in the Republican primary this spring. wkrn.com/news/local-new…
Republican Sheriff Kris Coody of Bleckley County has been charged with sexual battery for groping a judge at a law enforcement convention. 11alive.com/article/news/c…
Trump-loving “Black MAGA man” and former Dem and former state rep Vernon Jones (GA) was accused of rape 17 years ago but the woman dropped the charges, she claims out of fear. 11alive.com/article/news/p…
Former Greenville, SC, Radiant Life Youth Pastor Shane Richardson was convicted in Pennsylvania was convicted of child sex abuse. pennlive.com/news/2022/06/f…
She was 16 and he was twice her age. He raped her. She became pregnant. He sued for custody. He got 50/50. He recently sued for full custody & won because she gave daughter a cell phone and she is required to pay child support. wbrz.com/news/investiga…
She reported the rape. He bragged he had connections. Clearly, he does and there is a whole lot of corruption in that Louisiana Parish where Ponchatoula is.
Judge Jeffrey Cashe is the judge who took away her custody and ordered the child support payments. Of course, he is a Republican
In 1999, Paul Weyrich wrote an Open Letter to Conservatives acknowledging they had lost the culture war and admitting the majority of Americans do not agree with them. nationalcenter.org/ncppr/1999/02/…
It is still true. We have won the culture war. Most Americans support gay rights, marriage, and choice, yet, the extremist minority is likely to win control of our government - and solidify their control through voter suppression and the baked-in minority rule of Constitution.
That's because they had leaders who explained to their voters that it takes time, work, and investment from the ground up to win. They didn't have their own legislators attacking their leadership demanding Executive Orders Now while doing nothing in Congress.
In the town where I went to high school, there was a guy in his 50s who was gay and who wore women's clothes all the time. However, unlike media representations, he was a dowdy dresser who wore mostly housedresses and muumuus, flat shoes, & no makeup, etc.
From what I have been told, he always wore women's clothes, even in high school (long before I was born.) I wonder how different he might have been if he were born in say 2000. Perhaps he might have changed his name and pronouns.
I won't say that town was the most accepting
but there was a gay man who taught elementary school and directed the Baptist choir and he retired when I was in sixth grade after teaching 35 years. He was openly gay and no one thought too much about it.
If you don't mind, I would like to share a theory about the widening gap between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Republicans distrust government and like to feel smarter than their politicians. So they vote for contemptible specimens like MTG & Trump, people they can laugh at the politician while loving how we are outraged.
Democrats want government to work so they are comfortable, even excited by, politicians that seem smarter than them. The want competence and excellence.
My sister lost her son in his twenties. One of my nieces lost her 8 month old to SIDS, another lost her son in a car accident. My sister mourned her son every day until her death, so much one of her other sons felt slighted. My nieces mourn their children daily.
My niece lives very near where the accident took place about 14 years ago. There are fresh flowers marking that spot that she keeps replacing. When something happens, she notes how old he would be now. His sisters mourn him as well and write to him on his FB page.
My niece who lost her daughter to SIDS remembers her and also remarks how old she would be. She would have been the eldest child so her younger sisters also talk about her even though they never were in the world when she was. I remember finding a pic of my mom holding her.
It's my firm conviction that the reason so many people on the left were disappointed in Obama is their inability to see him as he was and not as their Black Panther Archetype. I remember discussing Obama vs. Hillary in 2008 and pointing out how much more left she was than he was.
I was going down the issues and my colleague said, "But Obama has to run as a centrist to get the votes. If he ran on what he really believed, they would call him an angry Black man and he would never get the votes." I asked to clarify, if she meant that he supported progressive
policies that he never mentioned and never talked about but pretended otherwise just to get elected? Was he really a closet socialist? She was certain of it. I asked whether it might be racist to see him differently than he described himself and she assured me otherwise