Michael Doran has twice won election as the Lorain County Recorder, a generally non-controversial job, recording deeds, property records, and so on. However, he has a history of controversy and violence. He changed his name from Fetterman to Doran, which Democrats alleged was an attempt to hide his convictions for assault in Wyoming and for theft and driving on a suspended license in Washington. A fellow Republican has accused him of assault but did not press charges. Now he has been charged with sexual imposition, essentially having sexual contact with another person when the offender knows the contact is offensive or acts recklessly in that regard.
Grant Hill is a Republican primary candidate for Iowa State House District 88. He also filed to run in the primary for US House District 1, but has told journalists that was a mistake, though he said he planned to run for Congress in 2032. He was described in the Daily Mail as a “rising GOP star” despite being listed as a sex offender and his very recent release from prison after serving two years and nine months.
His first offense was in 2018, theft from a Dollar General Store. His second, in 2021, was for exposing himself and masturbating in front of a thirteen-year-old at a local gym. He entered an Alford Plea, claiming he was innocent but they had plenty of evidence to convict him. His third offense, also in 2021, was initially charged as third-degree sexual abuse, but he got it reduced to intent to commit sexual abuse in a plea deal. In addition, there was another incident of indecent exposure that was dropped, masturbating at an intersection, recording himself and another motorist who could see what he was doing.
He has started a nonprofit called 1 Love Legacy that will focus on rehabilitation and self-improvement. His campaign is centered on personal accountability, second chances, and community empowerment — themes that take his criminal history into account. His campaign site is The People’s Hill.
Curtis Cochran was the Swain County, North Carolina, Sheriff. He was elected in 2006 and served five consecutive terms until his arrest and suspension in June 2025.
Swain County includes the Cherokee Reserve which belongs to and is governed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. That puts parts of Swain County under the jurisdiction of the tribe as well as the state and county.
The State of North Carolina has charged Cochran with felonious restraint, assault on a female, sexual battery and solicitation to commit prostitution. Cochran is also charged under the Cherokee Code with two counts of oppression in office and one count of abusive sexual contact.
Two women have come forward alleging very similar assaults. According to them, they were offered a ride by Cochran who then touched them, exposed his genitals, and assaulted them after offering them a ride.
A third woman came forward and a grand jury indicted him for 2nd-degree rape.
Justin Rhodes was the pastor of Big Creek Baptist Church in Soso, Mississippi. He also served for a time as Vice-President and as President of the Baptist Missionary Association of America, an organization of more than 1100 churches. He was relieved of his duties as pastor and president due to a “moral failure” in 2021.
What the moral failure was is unknown, but in 2025, he was arrested for molesting a child. The incident is reported to have happened on a choir trip to Disney World.
His trial is currently scheduled for December, 2025.
Lawrence Taylor was a New York Giants football player. He was recently at Trump’s press conference reviving the Presidential Fitness Test and was appointed to the Presidential Fitness Council. He frequently shared the stage at Trump campaign rallies. He is also a registered sex offender who was convicted of soliciting a prostitute and sexual misconduct for having sex with someone unable to consent — a sixteen year old girl who was trafficked by someone Lawrence knew well enough to call.
He pleaded guilty in 2011 and received probation and must register as a sex offender. He claims she said she was nineteen and some of the news stories seem to imply he was the victim.
She filed a civil suit as a victim of sex trafficking, but her civil case was dismissed. However, her testimony did help convict the man who trafficked her.
She described what happened with Taylor as sexual assault. She was bruised and had a bloody nose from the beating her trafficker inflict in forcing her to comply. She claimed she told Taylor clearly that she did not want to have sex and that he tried to physically resist. She said she was crying and telling him no, but being significantly stronger, he forced her. Rape. However, Taylor used her testimony against her trafficker to get the case dismissed.
Sadly the media focused on calling her a sixteen-year-old prostitute, not mentioning that she was not only below the age of consent, but also the victim of a sex trafficker that Lawrence knew to call. The articles about the prosecution of her trafficker are more informative as they recognize her as the victim.
Carl DeMaio is a Republican member of the California Assembly. Previously he was a member of the San Diego City Council and an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor. He ran for Congress in 2014 and 2020. In 2024 he ran for California Assembly and won. Three people have claimed to have witnessed him masturbating, nonconsensual sexual displays. Two have claimed he sexually harassed them.
In 2013, Sen. Ben Hueso (D) claimed he witnessed DeMaio masturbating in a city hall men’s room and that DeMaio was startled, apologized, and fled. Councilwoman Marti Emerald said she saw Hueso come out of the men’s room looking shocked and that he told her what happened. DeMaio denied it. Several allies said they never saw him do that so he must not have done it, an example of the logical fallacy argumentum ad ignorantiam or appeal to ignorance.
The second allegation came from a former staffer who had been fired for plagiarism. He claimed that DeMaio masturbated in front of him and grabbed him in the crotch. He also claimed to have received anonymous e-mail threats, implying to law enforcement they may have come from DeMaio. He confessed that he faked the e-mails. He also confessed to burglarizing and vandalizing DeMaio’s office. Prosecutors stated that his confession did not mean his allegation was false.
The third allegation was from a former staffer who left on good terms with a recommendation. He also is a DeMaio supporter and was not going to say anything because he assumed his experience was a one-time mistake on DeMaio’s part. However, the allegations from #2 sounded so much like his own experience, he concluded it might be a pattern of behavior and so he came forward.
The crimes of the second accuser unfortunately have tainted all three allegations, so DeMaio claims to have been cleared. Most newspapers do the same. Several do not even mention the last accuser, a man who likes DeMaio. It seems the second accuser has insulated DeMaio from all three allegations.
Currently DeMaio is fighting the referendum to redistrict California in response to Texas’ redistricting. He has filed an initiative that he calls a “poison pill” to block anyone who votes for the referral from running for office for ten years.
Matt McCullough ran for the 10th Senate District in Pennsylvania in 2022. He lost the general election, though it didn’t help when voters found out that he was arrested in Nashville for public intoxication. According to the police report, police were called after he “grabbed and squeezed and employee’s breast.”
The public intoxication charge was dismissed and the woman did not file a complaint so the sexual battery was not investigated. According to the arrest report, the police initially just tried to get him in a cab, but he refused and resisted the police. They arrested him as much for his own safety as that of anyone else.
McCullough also didn’t do himself any favors with most voters when he featured a conspiracy-mongering bigot in one of his ads. This is a person who claims school shootings are faked to advance support for gun control and that Muhammad never existed.
As to his arrest, McCullough claims he’s taken “full responsibility” for it. What does that mean? Has he apologized to the woman, the club, or the police officers? The call was made after he allegedly groped a woman’s breast, but he denies that happened.
Mike Yenni was the President of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. In 2016, he was exposed for sending texts to a teen he saw at a high school event. Despite the scandal, he served his full term and is now returning to government eight years later, like Trump, relying on partisan loyalty overwhelming moral objections to child predators.
A mutual friend gave Yenni the youth’s contact info and Yenni began texting him and chatting with him. He then met the youth at the mall where the teen worked, gave him some designer underwear, and kissed him.
In the texts, he talked to the teen about the underwear and asked for sex. Yenni was forty and the boy was seventeen. He asked the youth for a three-way sex act with their mutual friend and suggested the boy intern for him so they could be together without any questions asked. The teen was uncomfortable and came forward when he was nineteen.
Yenni admitted sending the texts, but he was not prosecuted as the age of consent in Louisiana is seventeen. However, for federal law prohibits using a phone to make an obscene request to someone under eighteen.
The FBI investigated but did not pursue the matter. There was also an effort to investigate whether he had done something similar with a youth group he worked with. They reached out to prior members and most returned their calls saying nothing happened. This resulted in misleading headlines claiming Yenni was “cleared” of improper contact.
Despite this history, he was appointed chief deputy registrar returning him to Jefferson Parish government.
Russ Casey was a Justice of the Peace in Tarrant County, Texas. He was running for re-election in the Republican primary when he was discovered to have forged his petition signatures. Ironically, this came to light as his accusations of that exact same thing against his primary opponents were being investigated. He pleaded guilty to voter fraud and was sentenced to probation. This is notable in that he committed voter fraud in the same county as the Black woman Crystal Mason who got ten years.
However, he seems to have skated on the more serious allegations of indecent exposure, sexual harassment, and sexual abuse brought by his former clerk. He apologized to her and that settled it for her.
The woman began working for Casey in 2007. She had worked for him for three years when she borrowed a small amount of money. When she went into his office to repay the loan, he exposed himself and demanded oral sex from her. When she refused, he said he had been good to her, loaned her money, and kept her employed. She needed to return the favor. Thinking her job threatened, she complied.
The relationship continued for several years. However, after her son died, she wanted to stop. She said she thought her son was watching them and was uncomfortable. So she was fired and accused of mishandling money. She also says she had complained to the county human resources office twice in the past and was once told they could do nothing as the judge was an elected official. They said this even though she brought in a semen-stained dress to provide proof.
After the judge fired her, the County placed her on paid leave. She still works for the County. The judge admitted a sexual relationship, but claimed it was consensual. The lawsuit provides a list of several witnesses, coworkers who heard the judge yelling at her, threatening her job, and screaming obscenities at her in front of them.
He now has a felony conviction for voter fraud, five years probation, community service, and a fine for committing voter fraud. For the ongoing sexual abuse of an employee, he apologized and is able to complain that it was all consensual.
Sexual harassment is treated as a civil offense rather than a crime. Coercing someone for sex to keep their job should be counted as rape, but instead, it’s more like a parking ticket. And certainly, he has his sympathizers.
Jon Stanard was a Utah State Representative until he resigned in 2018. At first it was unclear why this fervent family-values politician resigned, until news came out that he was under investigation for using taxpayer funds to pay for the hotel rooms when he met with a sex worker. They also investigated his use of a state-provided cellphone for making arrangements.
This seems to have been consensual and would not normally be included in the list of GOP predators. However, using taxpayer funds takes this a little bit past hypocrisy. As to hypocrisy, in 2017, Stanard voted to increase the penalty for people who solicited a sex worker.
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