Grand Old Perverts

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

I’m going to need a new print cartridge after this. After hearing of the resignation of Mark Foley, I started thinking about all the other conservative Republicans in recent years who have been caught with their pants down. Now an exhaustive list would be more than any one person could possibly handle. So I decided to limit my search to members of Congress (no congressional aides or local Republicans) who have either admitted to misconduct, or have had allegations substantially corroborated by other sources. I also put a 25-year statute of limitations on my search, so Warren G. Harding is off the hook.

Bear in mind that this list includes only proven cases of sexual misconduct against against Members of Congress. Old-fashioned corruption or, say, getting 2,700 American troops killed in Iraq for no damned good reason, does not make the list. If I’ve left out any of your favorites, please post them.

Robert Barr (R-GA) A co-author of the “Defense of Marriage Act,” Barr has been married three times and sued more than once for non-payment of child support. During his third married, was photographed licking whipped cream off strippers at an inaugural party.

Robert Bauman (R-MD) – A staunch moralist, notorious anti-gay activist, and four-term member of Congress, Bauman surprised his constituents by being arrested for soliciting sex from a sixteen-year-old boy.

Jim Bunn (R-OR) – After winning election to Congress in 1994 with the help of the Christian Coalition, Bunn then divorced his wife (and mother of this five children), and then married his mistress, giving her a job as his Chief of Staff and a nearly six-figure salary to boot.

Dan Burton (R-IN) – Called Bill Clinton a “scumbag” for his marital infidelities, before voters learned that Burton had himself fathered a child out of wedlock in the early 1980’s. The mother was given a no-work job on Burton’s campaign payroll.

Ken Calvert (R-CA) A family values advocate elected with the help of the Christian Coalition, he’s been sued for alimony payments by his ex-wife and was arrested for soliciting a prostitute – specifically the arresting officer caught Calvert in the act of receiving oral sex in his parked car.

Charles Canaday (R-FL) One of the House Impeachment managers while on the House Judiciary Committee, Canaday engaged in an adulterous affair with a married woman, breaking up her marriage. Canaday has since been appointed to the Florida Court of Appeals by Jeb Bush.

Helen Chenowith (R-ID) – Said on record that “personal conduct and integrity do matter” with regard to Bill Clinton’s sex life, but was somewhat more lenient when she admitted in 1998 that she had been engaged in a long-term extra-martial affair with a married man.

Dan Crane (R-IL) A rising star of the New Right, Crane was censured by the House in 1983 for having sex with a seventeen-year-old page. It marked the first and only time a member has been censured for sexual indiscretion. Some members have the House wanted to expel Crane, but Henry Hyde (R-IL) rose to his defense.

Duke Cunningham (R-CA) – You thought it was just about money? Think again. As many as a half dozen Republican lawmakers have been implicated in receiving the services of prostitutes hired by the contractors who bought off Duke Cunningham. An FBI investigation is ongoing.

Thomas Evans (R-IN) Served three terms in the House, but was defeated after he was linked to lobbyist Paula Parkinson, a young woman who admitted that her lobbying technique was limited to having sex with just about anybody who asked.

Newt Gingrich – (R-GA) Received oral sex from mistress Anne Manning in a parked car within sight of his own children. Married three times, with the first two marriages ending because of Gingrich’s infidelity.

Tim Hutchinson (R-AK) A Baptist minister and vociferous critic of Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky affair, Hutchinson was simultaneously having an affair with one of this staffers. Hutchinson divorced his wife of 29 years to marry his mistress,

Henry Hyde (R-IL) Another of the Republicans who took Bill Clinton to task for having an extramarital affair, it was later learned that Hyde himself had been engaged in a long-term affair – which Hyde called a “youthful indiscretion” even through he was over forty at the time.

Bob Livingston (R-LA) Briefly the Speaker of the House after Newt Gingrich’s resignation, Livingston was caught up in Larry Flynt’s “dragnet” of Republican sexual indiscretions and resigned himself before stories of his marital infidelities were published.

Donald Lukens (R-OH) Was caught by a Columbus, OH television news crew meeting with the mother of the teenaged girl with whom he’d been having sex. Lukens was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor but refused to resign his seat in Congress. Finally resigned after he was caught groping a Capitol Building elevator operator.

Sue Myrick (R-NC) A self-described “devout Christian,” Myrick admitted that she had an extramarital affair that lead to the break-up of her husband’s first marriage. When peppered with questions about the affair during a radio call-in show, Myrick stormed out of the studio saying, “I don’t have to put up with this shit.”

Robert Packwood (R-OR) One of the most notorious serial gropers in the history of the United State Congress, Packwood resigned his seat after dozens of women came forward saying that they had been molested by Packwood, some of them in elevators in the Capitol Building.

John Peterson (R-PA) Has been accused of sexual harassment (including fondling and forced kissing) by six women, including Capitol Hill lobbyists and House Interns. In the 2004 Election, Peterson was re-elected without opposition.

Don Shorewood (R-PA) – A staunch supporter of family values, Shorewood, a four-term member of the House of Representatives, admitted to a five year affair with a woman who is not quite old enough to be his daughter (she’s thirty-five years younger). His admission came after he settled a lawsuit with his former mistress, who accused Shorewood of physical abuse.

John Schmitz (R-CA) A member of Congress and member of the John Birch Society (who eventually kicked him out for his “extremism”), Schmitz fathered a child out of wedlock. Schmitz is also the father of Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher who was convicted of statutory rape for having sex with one of her students.

Ed Schrock (R-VA) Another vociferous opponent of gay rights and gays in the military who, it turns out, is gay himself. Schrock declined to seek a third term in the House when audiotapes of his voice on a gay-sex chat line were make public.

Strom Thrumond (R-SC) Nicknamed “The Sperminator” by aides for his pursuit of female staffers and lobbyists, Thurmond fathered a child out of wedlock with his family’s African-American maid – while Thurmond himself was a staunch segregationist.

J.C. Watts (R-OK) – A winner of the Christian Coalition “Friends of the Family Award,” it was later disclosed that Watts has two children fathered out of wedlock with two different women while serving as a Youth Minister in Oklahoma

[skids]

1. Don't run out of ink.

http://redmorals.com

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. Good Link!

I think I covered everybody on there (within my parameters). One of my favorite search results showed that Ted Bundy was an active Republican supporter. But as mass murderers go, he's been eclipsed by the Bush Administration.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Update / Edit

Just to be fair, I Googled "Democrat Sex Scandal" (my original Google search was "Republican Sex Scanal" which yielded a treasure trove of sources.

"Democrat Sex Scandal" only yielded stories about Bill Clinton. Not one article or reference to any member of Congress tied to deviant behavior.

To be fair, there was a story about fifteen years ago about a former staffer of Barney Frank running a gay prostitution ring out of Frank's apartment, but Frank himself wasn't involved. Frank was reprimanded by the House.

[SemperEadem]

29. well, the repugnants will drag out Chappaquidick

as proof of the Dems being perverted. They will exhaust that one story as defense against the myriad of stories about the 'family values' party.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Damn! I got an eye cramp reading all those names,

wouldn't it be easier just to list the ones that don't have ethical, moral problems?:shrug:

Kicked and recommended

:kick:

[blondeatlast]

5. Good post, one correction: GREEDY Ol' Perverts.

And to the MSM: this info is all over the web--why aren't YOU all over this info?

[skids]

6. And the "ol" stands for oligarch. n/t

[blondeatlast]

7. There ya go! nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. Not enough paper...

Somebody really should try a comprehensive list of Republicans indicted for corruption (to make it manageable, you'd almost have to limit it to members of Congress). Combine that with those accused of sexual misconduct, and you'd have a virtual "Who's Who" of the Republican Party.

[Name removed]

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[Jeff In Milwaukee]

25. You could easily write a book

The "Encyclopedia of Republican Scandals" even if you limited the scope to official corruption and personal indiscretion going back to 1994. You might even have a whole volume on the Bush Administration by itself.

[Joanne98]

13. I like Greedy better too.

[Omaha Steve]

9. Deep in my heart....

I thought there would be more. :-)

[snowbear]

10. Oh... you know there's more....

The dirty, nasty r-THUGS just haven't been caught yet.

[The Wizard]

11. Try this

I may have found it here at DU, but it's interesting.
Grand Old Perverts is right. Next thing you know Elizabeth Dole will be telling everyone how Viagra gives her an erection.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[Joanne98]

12. This reminds me of something Larry Flynt once said..

"Everybody thinks that with the Democrats it's sex and with the Republicans it's money, but it's actually the opposite".

[Drifter]

14. Please add Democrats to your list also ...

To think that this type of behavior is exclusive to Repukes is irresponsible.
I'm sure a list of Democrats can also be assembled, and you can count on it as a response to your list.

That is the only way to provide a real comparison.
Hypocracy is human nature, not political nature.

Cheers
Drifter

[Joanne98]

15. NO!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. If you read my "Update/Edit" post

You'd see that I did a similar seach for comparable Democrats, and only got hits for Bill Clinton.

That being said, tell me which Democrats should be included. Remember the parameters: Member of Congress, Proven Incident, 25 Year Maximum.

Give me a name. Or are you just blowing smoke?

[trof]

17. Oh...you want to play "fair"?

Like the repugs do?
:eyes:

[Ready4Change]

20. I was thinking the same as Drifter in #14

With the number of recently revealed Republican sexual misdeeds, I was also wondering what a comparison between R and D sexual scandals would look like. Would it reveal that ALL congresscritters can't keep it in their pants? Or that there really is a difference?

So I webbed about, and with the exception of long diatribes about Clinton and the Kennedys, there's surprisingly little about Dems. Particularly with the limits of 25 years/congress/proven. I did find one link on a very RW site that lists Democratic scandals which had a couple cases that fit, but the majority of it's items don't fit the criteria, as they are non-sexual scandals and/or not a congressperson and/or aren't with 25 years and/or are only allegations, not proven.

So, having opened my eyes to the FULL truth, rather than half the story, I've concluded that there is just something wierd, hypocritical and perverted about Republican congresscritters.

[SemperEadem]

30. the only person that can be trotted out for that purpose

is Ted Kennedy... and that is so played out it isn't even funny.

this isnt' about being fair to the thugs.. this is about retribution.

[trof]

18. Great, Jeff! Sent to my Dem e-mail list.

Way to go!

[DesertRat]

19. Great list, Grand Old Perverts indeed! n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

21. And the lower down the political food chain you go...

ths sicker these bastards get. I've come across cases of Republican County Commissioners and assorted local officials having sex with their own children. After doing this research, I felt like I needed a shower.

And since I'm NOT a Republican, I did it by myself and not with a ten-year-old girl.

[The Wizard]

22. GOP humor

Q. Why did the G O Pervert say he liked to shower with 14 year olds?
A. Because when you slick their hair back they look nine.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

23. Ewww!!!

Made all the worse because it's probably true.

[Marnieworld]

26. So ladies remember- if you are ever in the capital...

Take the Stairs!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

28. It's heathier...in more ways than one

Some posted elsewhere the question as to why under-aged people are allowed to be pages, and I have to agree. I think that even as a go-fer job, it should be held by someone at above the age of consent.

As the Dan Crane entry confirms, this has been a problem for decades.

[Jim Lane]

27. It's Don Sherwood, not Shorewood -- some information and links

On edit: I searched for "Sherwood" and thought you'd missed him, so I wrote this addition. I'll leave it up in case anyone wants to check the links.


In 2004, police answered a 911 call to the apartment of Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.) and found a woman who accused him of choking her. Sherwood said he was merely giving her a back rub. No charges were filed. Sherwood, who was then 63 and was married with three children, denied any sexual involvement with the 28-year-old woman. Later, however, he admitted that they had had an affair for about five years. (See in PDF.)

Despite Sherwood's conduct, his campaign in the Republican primary was bolstered by recorded phone calls to voters from such family values stalwarts as Rick () and the Fratboy-in-Chief himself ().

Sherwood is running for re-election. His Democratic opponent is U.S. Navy veteran Chris Carney: http://www.carneyforcongress.com/

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

31. It's the utter hypocrisy of the Rethugs that I can't stand

Lots of otherwise mature adults slip up sometimes and engage in extramarital affairs, have mistresses/lovers out of wedlock, even solicit a prostitute. (Although, I suspect that the vast majority of adults don't go so far as to become pedophiles who solicit gay sex from 15-year old boys!) It's a human failing that an awful lot of adults have-- we can recognize, accept and forgive that.

What I absolutely cannot STAND-- is the utter hypocrisy of the GOP, whose members are not in the slightest forgiving of the shortcomings of others (as Bill Clinton learned to his dismay), but who are themselves engaged in the same sort of behavior. Rather than admitting their own fallibility on these matters, they go moralizing and pointing fingers at everybody else, adjudging their behavior and declaring them to be deviants. It makes me sick sometimes!

[MsMagnificent]

32. More for your resume (better buy lots more toner)

Not all elected Pol's, but all members of the 'GOP':

* Republican mayor Thomas Adams of Illinois charged
with 11 counts of disseminating child pornography and
two counts of possession of child pornography.
* Republican campaign worker and self proclaimed
reverend Steve Aiken convicted of having sex with two
underage girls.
* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was
sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his
daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican activist and rising Colorado Republican
star Randal David Ankeney, who named his dogs Nixon
aned Reagan, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual
assault on a child. Later he was rearrested for 5
counts of sexual assault on a child, 3 counts of
sexual enticement of a child, and one count of sexual
exploitation of a child.
* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter
pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault
on a teenage boy.
* 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 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 preacher Hewart Lee Bennett arrested for
soliciting sex from 16 year old boys while claiming
that he did so to gain their trust and then teach them
the love of Jesus.
* Republican Christian Coalition chair Louis Beres
investigated for molesting three female family members
as teens.
* Clifton Bennett, 18, son of Arizona republican state
senator Ken Bennett plead guilty to assaulting 3 boys,
aged 11-15 with broomsticks up their rectal areas.
* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was
charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and
possession of child pornography.
* Republican golden boy and GOP employee Theodore
Bundy executed for murdering over two dozen women.
* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with
two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old
boy.
* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt
was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year
old girl.
* Republican activist John Butler was charged with
criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
* Republican judge and Nixon Supreme Court nominee
Harrold Carswell charged with making a pass at an
undercover male cop in a public bathroom.
* Republican Randall Casseday, human resource chair of
the Washington Times, arrested for soliciting sex from
a 13 year old.
* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded
guilty to molesting a male child.
* 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 councilman John Collins pleads guilty to
sexually molesting a 13 + 14 year old girls.
* Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer,
who appeared in an ad blasting Al gore, convicted of
molesting 9 yr old girl stepdaughter
* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a
female minor working as a congressional page.
* Republican Committeeman John Curtain charged with
molesting a teenage boy.
* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian
groups, Richard A.Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for
allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. 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 fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found
guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage
girls to pose for sexual photos
* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no
contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a
13-yr-old girl.
* Republican activist and Focus on the Family Founder
Pat Dobson advocates that fathers should show their
penises to their sons while in the shower with them.
* Republican spokesman Brian Doyle arrested for trying
to seduce a 14 year old girl over the Internet.
* Republican director of the "Young Republican
Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old
daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
* Republican congressman Mark Foley resigned from
Congress after sending sexually explicit emails to
former male pages under the age of 18.
* Republican constable Larry Dale Floyd of Denton
arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex from an 8 yr
old girl.
* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W.
Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to
molesting his two daughters.
* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury
Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal
prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls
* Republican activist Matthew Glavin was caught
masturbating in public and fondling an undercover park
ranger.
* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a.
"Republican Marty"), convicted in Florida on four
counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage
girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
* Republican Mayor John Gosek sentenced to jail for
soliciting sex from two 15 year old girls.
* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six
counts of sex crimes involving children.
* 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 President of NYC Housing Development
Russell Harding pleads guilty to possession of child
pornography on his computer.
* 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 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 anti-abortion activist Howard Scott
Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
* 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 activist Neal Horsley admits to having
had sex with a mule.
* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty
to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14
years in federal prison.
* 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 activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized
child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
* Republican judge Ronald Kline was placed under house
arrest for child molestation.
* Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found
guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced
to one month in jail
* Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded
guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old
girl.
* Republican Douglas County election official Pat
McPherson arrested for fondling a 17 yr old girl.
* Republican party supporter Timothy McVeigh blew up
dozens of innocent children in Oklahoma City.
* 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 state rep Brent Parker arrested for
soliciting sex from undercover officer posing as male
prostitute.
* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was
arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old
girl being raped.
* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest
to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10
years probation.
* Republican boy scout leader and zoning supervisor
Dennis L Rader pleaded guilty for performing a sexual
act on an 11 year old girl he murdered.
* Republican petition leader Tom Randall pleads guilty
to molesting two girls under the age of 14.
* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader
Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship
with his step daughter Susan Smith.
* Republican senator Rick Man on Dog Santorum and his
wife forced their three children, all under the age of
six, to play with a dead fetus in the crib of their
home.
* Republican ex congressman Peter Schmitt of Orange
County, California’s Republican daughter Mary Kay
Lotorneau convicted of raping a 6th grader and bearing
his two children.
* Republican congressman Ed Shrock resigned from
Congress after found seeking sex on hotlines for
homosexuals.
* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado
state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired
after child pornography was found in his possession.
* Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly
had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.
* Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a
convicted child molester.
* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was
sentenced to three years probation for taking nude
photographs of a 15-year old girl.
* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr.
pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and
served 6-months in prison.
* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child
sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican party leader Bobby Stumbo arrested for
having sex with a five year old boy.
* 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 County Chairman Armando Tebano arrested
for sexually molesting a 14 yr old girl.
* Republican racist pedophile and United States
Senator Strom Thurmond raped a 15-year old black girl
which produced a child.
* 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 consultant Lawrence Scott Ward arrested
at Dulles airport after authorities found child
pornography and videotapes of him having sex with
children.
* Spokane Republican homophobic mayor Jim West
recalled after evidence surfaced that he molested
little boys.
* Republican politician 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 preacher Stephen White, who demanded a
return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail
after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission
to perform oral sex on him.
* Republican activist and James Dobson protege Steve
Wilsey convicted of sexual assault after being charged
with molesting an 8 year old boy.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. Yep. Them's our Family Values, All Right!

My favorite is Mike Hinz. I think he's the Iowa pastor that Bush posed with in 2004. Turns out he was molesting several of the young girls in his congregation.