Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 17

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Thursday, Jul. 11, 2019 Thursday, Jul. 11, 2019 at 12:23:50pm PDT

Department of Justice's scathing report of the Baltimore City Police Department concluded that officers were pervasively abusing their power in bluntly racist and gender-biased ways.

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This is the 17th installment in the list of Republican sexual predators, abusers, and enablers. These are people who abused their power, not folks caught in consensual scandals.

401 Todd Poole, a former executive director for the NC GOP and senior staff member was arrested for assaulting a woman. Charges dropped, domestic violence.
402 Republican Judge James Troiano protected alleged rapist because he’s from a “good family”
403 Republican Judge Marcia Silva protected rapist by saying 12-year-old victim didn’t suffer serious harm by being raped.
404 Rightwing Baptist Pastor John Martin - raping young boys. John Martin, the lead pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church, confessed to four counts of sexual abuse on June 23. He was arrested on felony sex abuse charges after members of his church reported him to authorities,
405 Harry Thomas, RW founder of the Creation Festival, sentenced to 18 years for raping children. At least 5 children assaulted
406 Amanda Chase, Rep. VA state senator, thinks women are raped because they are naive, unprepared, and not carrying a gun. Rape apologist/enabler
407 Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbot vetoes bill to protect child victims of trafficking, protecting them from being arrested for prostitution.
408 OK City Councilman, former ICE agent Jeffrey Short, molesting teen girls
409 Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski assaulted a reporter and has been accused of sexual assault
410 PA GOP Party Acting Chair Bernadette Comfort accused of knowing about and ignoring sexual harassment complaints about party officials
411 Evangelist Jason Brothers raped a 14-year-old girl and got probation thanks to 434 who exploited his legislative position to delay trial for years.
412 GA GOP Speaker of the House David Ralston abuses his power and a legal ploy to help clients evade justice including rapist Jason Brothers

413 Republican activist, Putin-advocate Steven Seagal has been accused of rape and sexual harassment
414 John Jones, chief of intelligence and counterterrorism for the Texas Department of Public Safety, who backed Trump’s anti-immigrant wall propaganda has been accused of rape.
415 John Fickas, GOP campaign consultant in California, accused of multiple rapes, at least one of a minor
416 Republican campaign volunteers/staff for #TeamMitch groped and choked a lifesize AOC cutout. McConnell campaign says boys will be boys.
417 Mississippi Republican Robert Foster refuses to allow women journalists to cover his campaign because he’s a rape-culture-promoting moral weakling who can’t trust himself not to harass and rape women
418 Conservative anti-historian Dinesh D’Souza - domestic violence
419 Missouri GOP state Rep Barry Hovis said date rapes were consensual rapes. He says he misspoke but context shows he meant what he said.
420 CA GOP Rep. Joel Anderson was reprimanded for sexually harassing& threatening a woman lobbyist.
421 ID GOP Rep James Holtzclaw - sexual harassment
422 KY GOP Rep. Jim Stewart III - sexual harassment
423 OH state Rep Bill Seitz, GOP, sexually offensive jokes about women legislators
424 OH state Sen. Mark Huffman, GOP, sexually offensive jokes about women legislators
425 OH state Rep. Michael Henne - sexually offensive statement to a group