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On this page I will be exposing the hypocrisy of the Republican Party
when it comes to family values. They claim to be the party of family
values, but in reality often have reprehensibly low standards when it
comes to family values. This is not to say that Democrats are perfect
when it comes to family values, they obviously aren't, but it appears
that Democrats appear to be normal human beings with normal problems.
Republicans appear to have worse "family values" than Democrats in
practice, despite their claims that they believe in family values, they
don't seem to practice them very well. And I'm not saying that 100% of
the activities listed below are wrong or immoral (obviously,
homosexuality is not), but I'm saying that denying onesself and being a
hypocrite about the family values you claim to have is. What You Can Do
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    * Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to
some of the most conservative members of Congress. They are also the
first cable company to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers.
(Kos, 2.8.05)

    * Edison Misla Aldarondo: The Republican legislator was sentenced
to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and
17. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Randal David Ankeney, Colorado: was arrested in 2001 on suspicion
of sexual assault on a child with force, sexual assault on a child,
sexual exploitation of a child, marijuana possession, and possession of
drug paraphernalia. Lured 13-year-old girl to his apartment, plied her
with booze and pot, photographed her topless, then had sex with her.
After his arrest, a second girl -- a 17-year-old campaign worker --
charged him with sexual assault. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to
attempted sexual assault on a child. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Dick Armey, Texas: Three women who had been students of Armey's
reported that he engaged in inappropriate behavior. Armey's second wife
had been one of his students. (Flynt - 47)

    * Jim Bakker, televangelist: Involved in fraud related to time
shares and adultery with Jessica Hahn. (ChT, 9.13.04)

    * Bob Barr, Georgia: Is on his third marriage. (Salon). Photographs
show him licking whipped cream off the breast of a stripper. Allegedly
lied under oath about adulterous sex during a 1986 deposition. Dumped
his second wife Gail and their two sons (ages 5 and 4) just before
Thanksgiving in 1985. When Gail was diagnosed with breast cancer, she
asked her husband to stop campaigning for the statehouse, but he
refused. He never attended chemotherapy treatments with his wife.
(Flynt - 20). His second wife Gail believes that he was having an
affair with his future third wife Jeri while he and Gail were still
married. (Flynt - 22). Allegedly condoned and paid for an abortion for
his then-wife. (Flynt - 24)

    * Merrill Robert Barter: The Republican County Commissioner pleaded
guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
(ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate: Nine members of
Bauer's staff quit, including Charles Jarvis, Bauer's campaign manager,
and Tim McDonald, former chief of advance operations. Jarvis and
McDonald have said publicly that they resigned in protest of Gary
Bauer's "inappropriate" behavior in travelling alone and spending time
behind closed doors with a 26-year-old deputy campaign manager. Jarvis
says that he and others in the campaign warned Bauer several times "in
the clearest possible terms" that he was creating "the appearance of
impropriety" by spending "hours and hours and hours behind closed doors
with a young single woman." Neither Jarvis nor McDonald has directly
claimed that sex occurred, though. An unnamed source in the Bauer
campaign said that Bauer has been traveling alone with this hot 26-year
old blond (deputy campaign manager Melissa McClard) on a daily basis
and the two have been so inseparable that it was like a "husband-wife
relationship." This source said that rumors of an affair have
circulated inside the campaign for months, and that several people told
the candidate of their concern. "Bauer told them basically to buzz off
-- that it was his personal business," the source said. Other staff
members who quit include media consultant Tom Edwards and Betty
Barrett, who was Bauer's secretary for 15 years. They declined comment.
(SC)

    * Robert Bauman, Marlyand: Married dad of four pleaded not guilty
in 1980 a charge of committing oral sodomy on a teenage boy in
Washington. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Parker J. Bena, Virginia activist: Convicted in 2001 of
possession of child pornography. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Bill Bennett: Few vices have escaped Bennett's withering scorn.
He has opined on everything from drinking to "homosexual unions" to
"The Ricki Lake Show" to wife-swapping. There is one, however, that has
largely escaped Bennett's wrath: gambling. This is a notable omission,
since on this issue morality and public policy are deeply intertwined.
During Bennett's years as a public figure, casinos, once restricted to
Nevada and New Jersey, have expanded to 28 states, and the number
continues to grow. In Maryland, where Bennett lives, the newly elected
Republican governor Robert Ehrlich is trying to introduce slot machines
to fill revenue shortfalls. As gambling spreads, so do its associated
problems. Heavy gambling, like drug use, can lead to divorce, domestic
violence, child abuse, and bankruptcy. According to a 1998 study
commissioned by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission,
residents within 50 miles of a casino are twice as likely to be
classified as "problem" or "pathological" gamblers than those who live
further away. If Bennett hasn't spoken out more forcefully on an issue
that would seem tailor-made for him, perhaps it's because he is himself
a heavy gambler. Indeed, in recent weeks word has circulated among
Washington conservatives that his wagering could be a real problem.
They have reason for concern. The Washington Monthly and Newsweek have
learned that over the last decade Bennett has made dozens of trips to
casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas, where he is a "preferred
customer" at several of them, and sources and documents provided to The
Washington Monthly put his total losses at more than $8 million. A
review of one 18-month stretch of gambling showed him visiting casinos,
often for two or three days at a time (and enjoying a line of credit of
at least $200,000 at several of them). Bennett likes to be discreet.
"He'll usually call a host and let us know when he's coming," says one
source. "We can limo him in. He prefers the high-limit room, where he's
less likely to be seen and where he can play the $500-a-pull slots. He
usually plays very late at night or early in the morning--usually
between midnight and 6 a.m." Despite his personal appetites, Bennett
and his organization, Empower America, oppose the extension of casino
gambling in the states. In a recent editorial, his Empower America
co-chair Jack Kemp inveighed against lawmakers who "pollute our society
with a slot machine on every corner." The group recently published an
Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, with an introduction written by
Bennett, that reports 5.5 million American adults as "problem" or
"pathological" gamblers. Bennett says he is neither because his habit
does not disrupt his family life. Bill Bennett's teensy little
seven-figure gambling habit also mentions that he regularly plays (or
at least played until recently) a private poker game with Robert Bork
and Supreme Court Justices and fellow avatars of morality Antonin
Scalia and William Rehnquist. Which, under DC law, is punishable by
jail. (WM, 6.03). Apparently, Bennett is also an excessive smoker.
(OTK, 5.5.03) "I happen to know that several major news organizations
have for some time been looking into claims about portly conservative
moralizer William Bennett and a leather-bound dominatrix bodybuilder in
Las Vegas, a woman who has some very interesting narratives to recount.
What news organizations? The top five that come to your mind are on the
list. Some reporters have even traveled far and wide on this story.
Does this mean the story is true? No. It is "developing," as our
favorite cybergossip character assassin likes to say, and it may go
nowhere." (NYP, 2.17.04)

    * John Bolton: Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton's first
wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been
refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler
magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. Mr. Flynt
has obtained information from numerous sources that Mr. Bolton
participated in paid visits to Plato's Retreat, the popular swingers
club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
"The first Mrs. Bolton's conduct raises the presumption that she
fled out of fear for her safety or, at a minimum, it demonstrates that
Mr. Bolton's established inability to communicate or work
respectfully with others extended to his intimate family relations,"
said Mr. Flynt. "The court records alone provide sufficient basis for
further investigation of nominee Bolton by the Senate." (Raw,
5=2E11.05)

    * Mary Bono, California: Allegedly engaged in a torrid love affair
prior to the death of her husband Sonny. (Flynt - 8) Looks like the
cat's out of the bag on Cher's late ex-husband's widow and the dashing
freshman Rep. Connie Mack IV (R-Fla.). Rumors have been swirling for
weeks now about Rep. Mary Bono (R-Calif.) and Mack, both of whom
recently filed for divorce from their spouses. On Friday, a wire
service had more nerve than HOH and printed the rumor that Bono and
Mack are an item, something neither House Member denied. The Scripps
Howard News Service reported that "romance may be in the air" for Bono
and Mack, the son of former Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) and
great-grandson of Baseball Hall of Famer Connie Mack (all of whose
legal names are Cornelius McGillicuddy). Mack's chief of staff, Jeff
Cohen, told HOH on Monday that "Connie's marriage was in trouble for a
long time, which is why he filed for divorce in August. But beyond
that, he doesn't feel it's appropriate to discuss his personal life."
Mack and his wife, Ann, have two children, ages 5 and 3. Cohen did not
deny that the hunky Congressman is seeing the fetching widow of one of
America's most famous pop-culture icons. Asked whether they are
"dating" or "seeing each other," Cohen said, "The statement stands for
itself." Nor did Bono's chief of staff, Frank Cullen, deny the rumored
relationship. "Out of respect for what my boss is dealing with ... I'm
not going to comment on that situation or other aspects of her life,"
he told HOH. He said he and the rest of Bono's staff are "just trying
to support her." Cullen said Bono and her husband, Glenn Baxley, a
Western-wear designer and former farm-league baseball player, have
"mutually agreed to separate and have this divorce proceeding move
forward." Bono, whose two children with the late singer are now 17 and
14, has been married to Baxley since November 2001. She filed for
divorce last month. Her chief of staff described the couple's break-up
as "amicable." It seems that most folks in the Florida and California
delegations are withholding judgment, at least publicly, on whatever is
going on between the Congressman and Congresswoman. But one freshman
Member expressed disappointment with his classmate, saying through his
spokesman, "When you got two kids, it's just not worth it." (BBWW,
10.20.05)

    * Mike Bowers, Georgia: Admitted to a longtime extramarital affair.
Had the former Georgia attorney general had a 10-year relationship with
a state employee. (CSM)

    * Karl Brabenec, California Young Republican: Made a name for
himself by distributing fliers at 2003 Young Republicans national
convention for "Karlpalooza '03," party offering "lots of beer, liquor
and sex." (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Howard L. Brooks: The Republican staffer was charged with
molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. (Kos,
3=2E24.04)

    * Pat Buchanan, former presidential candidate: Right before he
turned 21 was pulled over, cursed out two police officers, resisted
arrest and then kicked one of the police officers in the ass." (Franken
- 172). Pat Buchanan, former presidential candidate: Buchanan himself
said that in 1960, when he was 21, the draft board rejected him because
he had Reiter's syndrome. What's that, you ask? It's a form of
arthritis usually caused by chlamydia, a venereal disease (at least in
America. In third world countries, a form of dysentery is the most
common cause.) When pressed, a Buchanan aide said that if, indeed,
sexual contact is the only way to get Reiter's, Buchanan would never
have admitted it. That's an honest if cynical response, but it assumes
that Buchanan knows what causes Reiter's. He also could have had
chlamydia for years, even to this day, without knowing it; chlamydia
often has no symptoms, especially in men. Notice also that this aide's
statement is not a denial. The Buchanan campaign has refused to confirm
or deny whether Pat has had chlamydia or any other venereal diseases.
(SC)

    * Christopher Buckley, who sends up a philandering President in his
new novel, "No Way to Treat a First Lady," is learning more about sex
scandals - probably more than he wants. The married writer is embroiled
in a paternity action with PR woman Irina Woelfle over her 2-year-old
son, Jonathan. Woelfle, 40, formerly worked at Random House, which
published "Thank You for Smoking," one of Buckley's five novels.
Woelfle's lawyer Ed Nusbaum tells us that Buckley, the 50-year-old son
of conservative pundit William F. Buckley Jr., "voluntarily agreed" to
a DNA test, which established him as Jonathan's father. Buckley also
took it upon himself to file suit recently in Stamford (Conn.) Superior
Court. Nusbaum says that the journalist and former speechwriter to
President George H.W. Bush is seeking "to establish what child support
should be paid." "The amount being being paid now is inadequate,"
claims Nusbaum, who says that Woelfle and Buckley also disagree "over
when he became aware of his paternity." Nusbaum adds that "at this
juncture there has been no contact between Buckley and Jonathan - by
his choice. Overtures were made by Irina, which he rejected." Buckley
is also seeking to have the court file sealed and have the case labeled
anonymously as "John and Jane Doe," according to Nusbaum, whose client
is opposing that motion. (NYDN, 12.24.02)

    * Andrew Buhr: The Republican politician was charged with two
counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Ted Bundy: He was a handsome, charming, urbane and extrovert
graduate, who did charity work and campaigned for the Republican Party
in the USA - Ted Bundy did not fit the bill as a serial killer. And
that was his great advantage. Friends, relatives and even detectives
instinctively shied away from following up their suspicions about him.
The women he killed also did not suspect a thing until it was too late
.=2E.Killed at least 16 victims. (BBC, 7.13.05)

    * Jim Bunn, Oregon: With his success due in great part to support
from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then
immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children), married
a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-of
salary of $97,500. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * William Wesley Burmeister: The son of an influential Augusta
lawmaker is in the Richmond County Jail on child molestation charges.
William Wesley Burmeister, 23, of Clayton County was arrested in an
aggravated child molestation case, said Richmond County sheriff's Maj.
Ken Autry. Burmeister is the eldest of four children of Rep. Sue
Burmeister (R-Augusta). The lawmaker, a conservative Christian, has
carried some of the Republican Party's most important legislation,
including HB 188, requiring the publication of photographs of convicted
sex offenders in local newspapers. Burmeister ushered that bill to
final passage. (AJC, 4.1.05)

    * John Allen Burt, anti-abortion activist: A six-day search for him
began last based on charges of sexual misconduct asserted by two
teenage girls who were living at Our Father's House, Burt's so-called
home for "unwed mothers," according to the Pensacola News Journal. John
Burt has a long history of connections to violence against abortion
clinics in the Pensacola area. He has been arrested numerous times for
his participation disruptive protests and clinic invasions. A 1986
invasion led by Burt was the impetus for the NOW v. Scheidler case.
Burt led protests in Pensacola on behalf of two couples that bombed
three local clinics on Christmas Day in 1984, according to the Sarasota
Herald Tribune. Burt was outside the Pensacola clinic when an Our
Father's House volunteer, Michael Griffin, murdered Dr. David Gunn in
1993. Griffin's family later claimed that John Burt had manipulated
Griffin. Burt is also an associate of Paul Hill who murdered Dr. Bayard
Britton and volunteer escort James Barrett outside another local
Pensacola clinic in 1994. Burt is on film helping Paul Hill identify
Dr. Britton outside the clinic in the weeks before Hill shot and killed
Dr. Britton and his clinic escort. (FMF, 6.11.03)

    * Dan Burton, Indiana: Admitted that he had fathered a child out of
wedlock during an extramarital affair. (Flynt - 42). "Republicans and
Democrats alike from that era recall ceaseless complaints from female
staffers fed up with fending off Burton's sexual advances." (Flynt -
43). Several people report that Burton had sex with his assistant to
the administrative assistant. A female lobbyist from Planned Parenthood
claimed that Burton stuck his hand up her skirt. Numerous sources claim
tha tBurton maintained sexual relationships with women on his
Congressional and campaign payrolls. Ex-model Claudia Keller claims to
have been romantically involved with Burton. (Flynt - 43)

    * George H.W. Bush, former president: Allegedly engaged in an
affair with an aide, Jennifer Fitzgerald, while serving as vice
president. (Flynt - 56). For the May 29th issue of the Rolling Stone,
Ashton Kutcher shares tidbits from his sometimes loco life - including
an unforgettable party with the Bush gals. He tells Rolling Stone: "So
we're hanging out ... The Bushes were underage drinking at my house.
When I checked outside, one of the Secret Service guys asked me if
they'd be spending the night. I said no. And then I go upstairs to see
another friend and I can smell the green wafting out under his door. I
open the door, and there he is smoking out the Bush twins on his
hookah." (ET, 5.6.03)

    * George W. Bush, Texas: Alleged cocaine abuser and alcoholic
before reforming; reportedly paid for an abortion in his younger days;
several allegations of drunken driving, alleged affair with Tammy
Phillips. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Jeb Bush, Florida: Allegedly had an affair that was captured in
photographs. (Flynt - 58). His 24-year-old daughter Noelle was jailed
for having prescription pills while in a treatment center, violating a
court-ordered drug treatment plan. (AP, 7.17.02). Noelle, was sentenced
to 10 days in jail after being accused of having crack cocaine in her
shoe while in drug rehab. (AP, 10.17.02) Appointed former a former
Playboy bunny to several government posts while allegedly having an
affair with her. (Salon, 1.1.04) The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and
resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said. John Ellis Bush, 21,
was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at
2:30 a.m. on a corner of Austin's Sixth Street bar district, said
commission spokesman Roger Wade. (MSNBC, 9.17.05)

    * Neil Bush: The president's younger brother and his estranged wife
signed an "amicable, irrevocable" mediated divorce settlement ending 23
years of marriage, Neil Bush's lawyer said. All that remains for Neil
and Sharon Bush, who have three teenage children, is for a formal
divorce decree to be drafted and filed at the Harris County courthouse.
(AP, 4.17.03) Admitted to cheating on his ex-wife with "three or four"
different women, it was alleged. Bush told of the affairs during leaked
video depositions to lawyers representing his former wife, Sharon. The
father-of-three said: "I had sexual intercourse with perhaps three or
four - I don't remember the exact number - women at different times."
The affairs took place while he was on business trips to the Far East,
according to a report in the New York Times. Bush allegedly told the
lawyers: "In Thailand once, I have pretty clear recollection that there
was one time in Thailand and Hong Kong." (Mirror, 7.14.03) The
following events took place while he was married. "I had sexual
intercourse with perhaps three or four, I don't remember the exact
number, women, at different times. In Thailand once, I have a pretty
clear recollection that there was one time in Thailand and in Hong
Kong." (NYDN, 1.1.04)

    * John Butler: The Republican activist was charged with criminal
sexual assault on a teenage girl. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Nancy J. Caffyn, Massachusetts: Divorced former state legislator.
(AASP)

    * Ken Calvert, California: Allegedly was caught with a prostitute
by police in 1993. (Flynt - 54) He was sued as an alimony deadbeat by
his ex-wife. (Dem, 8.11.03)

    * Charles Canady, Florida: Lied to his constituents about his
adulterous affair with Sharon Becker, which caused her divorce from
Florida businessman Robert Becker. (Dem, 8.11.03)

    * George Harrold Carswell, Judge: Arrested in 1976 for making a
pass at an undercover cop in men's room at a Tallahassee, Florida,
shopping mall. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Dick Cheney, vice president: Despite having daughter who is a
lesbian, opposes gay rights laws and supports people who oppose rights
for homosexuals. Served on a ticket with a candidate who supported
criminalization of homosexual sex. Voted against allowing the federal
government to collect data on violent crimes based on sexual
orientation. (IGF) Says he would support President Bush if he proposes
a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Cheney, whose
daughter is a lesbian, told The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News
in interviews published Saturday that he still believes states should
handle the issue, but that he would support Bush's decision. (AP,
1=2E10.04)

    * Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president: Wrote a book about
lesbian "love," Sisters, yet went so far as to deny her daughter's
lesbianism entirely, despite her daughter's open lesbianism. (IGF)

    * Helen Chenoweth, Idaho: Reportedly had an affair with her married
boss in 1977 and 1978. Allegedly had a long-term adulterous affiar with
former business associate Vernon Ravenscroft. (Flynt - 45)

    * Keola Childs: The Republican County Councilman pleaded guilty to
molesting a male child. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Mark Chmura, activist: Chmura was arrested for raping a 17-year
old girl. He was acquitted -- but that doesn't erase the fact that he
A) had sex with an underage girl (in a hot tub full of boozed-up
teenagers at a party), and B) was himself married at the time. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * John Christensen, Nebraska: As part of divorce settlement, got
his ex-wife to sign affidavit stating she was the one who had been
"unfaithful." (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Kevin Coan, Missouri: Arrested in Illinois in 2001 for offering
to pay for sex over the Internet from a 14-year-old girl -- who turned
out to be male police officer working a chat-room sting. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * John Cox, Illinois: Cox's birth was the result of a rape; yet Cox
has evaded questions about whether he's pro- or anti-choice. Is
divorced. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Carey Lee Cramer: A man who made national news in 2000 by
producing an anti-Al Gore television ad featuring his stepdaughter is
now charged in Hidalgo County with multiple counts of molesting the
girl and another young relative. (Bobo, 6.4.05)

    * Dan Crane, Illinois: In 1983, after a yearlong investigation by
the House Ethics Committee, Crane was found to have engaged in an
illicit sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl working as a
congressional page. (Salon, 10.5.98)

    * Paul Crouch, televangelist: First, extortion seems like the only
word to describe what Enoch Lonnie Ford, the former TBN employee who
says he and Crouch had extramarital sex in 1996, attempted. Crouch paid
him a $425,000 settlement in 1998 after Ford accused the global network
of wrongful termination. (ChT, 9.13.04)

    * Richard A. Dasen Sr.: The Republican benefactor of conservative
Christian groups, 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. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Gilbert Davis, Virginia: Former attorney for Paula Jones, allowed
himself to be videotaped in Roanoke, VA, hotel room, drunk, while
instructing a female client to disrobe. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Doug Dean, Colorado: Divorc=E9, who had hot pants for female
lobbyists, went ape after live-in lover (a lobbyist, of course) dumped
him in 2001. Broke into her home, lay in wait for ex-squeeze, then
scared all hell out of her when she arrived, and chased her down
street, brandishing screwdriver. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Tom Delay, Texas: There is a rumor that a photograph exists with
DeLay locked in a sexual embrace with a Mexican prostitute. There is
another rumor that claims that DeLay has a grown daughter in Texas
whose mother is not DeLay's wife. Allegedly DeLay has paid support for
this child. (Flynt - 49)

    * Richard Anthony Delgaudio, Maryland: A prominent Republican
fund-raiser who once said former President Bill Clinton was "a
lawbreaker and a terrible example to our nation's young people" pleaded
guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to production of child pornography.
Delgaudio, who was sentenced to two years' probation before judgment,
admitted to taking lewd photographs of a 16-year-old girl he met in
East Baltimore's Patterson Park in 2001. In some of the photos, he was
engaged in sex with her, court records show. Delgaudio, 50, of Burke,
Va., is a frequent talk-radio guest and national figure in conservative
politics. He is president of the Legal Affairs Council, a group that
helped pay the legal bills of former Reagan administration officials
Oliver L. North and Caspar W. Weinberger after they were charged in
connection with the Iran-contra affair. In his pornography case, there
was additional evidence that Delgaudio took erotic images of at least
one other, younger teen-ager, but that evidence was not admissible in
court because police improperly stopped and searched Delgaudio, a judge
ruled. (Sunspot, 4.24.03)

    * Frank T. Devine, Illinois: This week, federal authorities filed a
12-count complaint against Frank T. Devine, a GOP precinct committeeman
in the Kendall County Republican organization, for allegedly defrauding
more than 40 investors in what the FBI described as a classic Ponzi
scheme. (IL, 12.23.04)

    * Peter Dibble: The Republican legislator pleaded no contest to
having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. (ArmSub,
7=2E13.05)

    * Elizabeth Dole, North Carolina: Had an affair with Bob Dole when
he was still married. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Bob Dole, former presidential candidate: He had an affair with a
younger woman (not Liddy) during the last four years of his first
marriage, before suddenly dumping his loyal first wife Phyllis in 1972.
Bob Dole married Phyllis Holden, a sweet, unambitious woman from a
successful New England family. She bore him a daughter, Robin, though
most voters probably have no idea he is a father. Robin is not a big
part of his life, and Dole himself has said "I don't think I really
knew her well. I was there for ceremonial things in school. But mostly
they [Phyllis and Robin] were here and I was not." Bob did make his
decision, and he stayed married to politics, often coming home at
midnight, leaving at 5 am the next morning. His marriage naturally
suffered, and in 1971 he asked Phyllis for a divorce, out of the blue,
no discussion. During the last year of their marriage, she has said, he
was only home for supper 4 nights. (SC)

    * Bob Dornan, former presidential candidate: His wife Sallie has
left him 3 or 4 times, and alleged in several aborted divorce suits
over 16 years that he beat her. For example, in her 1961 divorce suit
she stated under oath that he "dragged her about the home... by her
hair and ... exhibited a revolver." In June 1966, Dornan was found
guilty of a "violent attack" on his wife and was ordered to go to jail,
though police records do not show him actually serving any time. (SC)

    * Brian J. Doyle: The deputy press secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the
Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities
said. Brian J. Doyle, 55, of Silver Spring, Md., was arrested on
charges of use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of
harmful material to a minor. The charges were issued out of Polk
County, Fla. Doyle had a sexually explicit conversation with what he
believed was a 14-year-old girl whose profile he saw on the Internet on
March 14, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The
girl was an undercover Polk County Sheriff's Computer Crimes detective,
the sheriff's office said. Doyle sent the girl pornographic movie clips
and had sexually explicit conversations via the Internet, the statement
said. During other online conversations, Doyle revealed his name, that
he worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and offered his
office and government issued cell phone numbers, the sheriff's office
said. On several occasions, Doyle instructed her to perform a sexual
act while thinking of him and described explicit activities he wanted
to have with her, investigators said. Homeland Security press secretary
Russ Knocke in Washington said he could not comment on the details of
the investigation. "We take these allegations very seriously, and we
will cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation," Knocke said. (AP)

    * David Dreier, California: A Republican congressman from
California who has repeatedly voted against gay rights measures is said
to be gay himself, and at least three MediaNews Group newspapers are
said to have instructed its reporters not to ask questions about the
congressman's sexuality or how it relates to public policy. Brad Smith,
Dreier's chief of staff with whom he is said to have lived, is paid
an unusually high salary relative to the chief of staffs of other
powerful congressmen, including Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
(Raw, 1.18.05)

    * Nicholas Elizondo: The Republican director of the "Young
Republican Federation" molested his 6-year old daughter and was
sentenced to six years in prison. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Thomas Evans, Delaware: In 1981, shacked up in a Florida cottage
with Rep. Tom Railsback (R-Ill.), Rep. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.) and
insurance-industry lobbyist Paula Parkinson. Of the three, only Evans
admitted to having sex with Parkinson. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Mike Ferguson: In his dark suit, knotted tie and official
congressional ID pin on his lapel, Republican House member Mike
Ferguson looked out of place at the Rhino Bar and Pumphouse, a
Georgetown saloon popular with college kids. "He shouldn't have even
been at the bar," 21-year-old Georgetown University junior Michelle
Mezoe told us. "He and his group" - two unidentified staffers, also
wearing suits - "stuck out like sore thumbs." Yesterday Mezoe accused
the congressman, a 32-year-old married father of three representing New
Jersey's 7th District, of grabbing her in the wee hours Wednesday
morning. She said Ferguson removed his ID pin and handed it to her,
saying she could keep it if she would "come back and have a drink with
me." Mezoe said she refused to return it unless Ferguson apologized for
his "disrespectful" behavior. An apology was not forthcoming. (WP,
4=2E4.03)

    * Frank Figueroa: The former head of the Department of Homeland
Security's program to stop child predators (Operation Predator), today
pleaded no contest to charges he exposed himself to a 16-year-old girl.
According to the victim, "Figueroa pulled up a leg of his shorts,
exposed himself and masturbated for about 10 minutes" in front of her.
(TP, 4.5.06)

    * Larry Dale Floyd, Texas: A Denton County constable drove to a
Colorado restaurant on Thursday and called a woman he met through the
Internet to let her know he had arrived, according to court papers.
Instead of Marsha showing up with her 8-year-old daughter for a sexual
encounter, he met her colleagues - Ca=F1on City, Colo., police
officers. Mr. Floyd has been a Denton County constable since 1993. A
Republican, Mr. Floyd was unopposed in his most recent re-election in
November. (Eschaton, 7.30.05)

    * Mark Foley, Florida: Reports that he's gay are about to spread
from alternative and gay media outlets to major Florida newspapers,
Foley said. He blamed Democratic activists for spreading the rumor and
decried the "repulsive" campaign tactic. He wanted reporters to know
that he won't answer questions about his sexuality; it has nothing to
do with his candidacy. Supports an anti-gay agenda. (SPT, 6.1.03)

    * Kirk Fordice, Mississippi: Allegedly had an affair and then got
divorced. Fordice was one of Bill Clinton's biggest critics. (DM)

    * Galen Fox, Hawaii: The 27-year-old woman who accused state Rep.
Galen Fox of sexually molesting her on a United Airlines flight
testified that she awoke to find his hand inside her jeans and rubbing
her crotch. Her testimony was consistent with statements she gave to
FBI investigators a day after the Dec. 18 incident on Flight 56, an
overnight flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles. After a non-jury trial
in the Central District of California on Oct. 20, U.S. District Judge
Margaret Nagle found Fox (R, Waikiki-Ala Moana) guilty of a misdemeanor
charge of abusive sexual contact with another person without their
consent. (Bobo, 11.5.05)

    * Bill Frist, Tennessee: The senator's son, Jonathan Frist, 17 was
arrested for DUI and possession of alcohol by a minor. (NC5, 5.6.03)
Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while
an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s.
His office said it had no record on how many cats died. Frist disclosed
that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats,
telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he
used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process.
(UPI, 12.31.02)

    * Jack W. Gardner: The Republican Councilman was convicted of
molesting a 13-year old girl. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Richard Gardner, Nevada: Convicted in California in 1988 for lewd
and lascivious behavior with a child under the age of 14 -- a felony
sex crime. The victim was his own 12-year-old daughter. Investigation
led to exposure of two additional sex-crime convictions, one involving
the same daughter, and one involving another daughter under age 14.
(Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Newt Gingrich, Georgia: Visited his wife when she was recovering
from cancer surgery. Gingrich brought along their two daughters and a
yellow legal pad with his terms for a divorce. (Franken - 44). After
his divorce from Jackie, Newt Gingrich was late with his alimony
payments and she had to take him to court twice to provide adequate
support for her and the girls and that her church had to take up a
colection ot help them get by. (Franken - 45). "We would have won in
1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her [a young
volunteer] on the desk." - Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler at the
time. Several newspapers reported that Newt Gingrich was dating and
basically living with Callista Bisek, a "willowy blond Congressional
aide 23 years his junior." Biske, 33, was spending nights at Gingrich's
apartment near the Capitol and had her own key. In an amazing act of
hypocrisy, Gingrich was apparently dating Bisek all during
Clinton-Lewinsky adultery scandal, even as he proclaimed family values
and bitterly criticized the President for his adultery. Reporters and
other Washington insiders have known about this relationship since
1994, even before Gingrich became Speaker of the House, but did not
have any solid proof to report. In 1995, Vanity Fair magazine described
Bisek as Gingrich's "frequent breakfast companion." Gingrich was
married to Marianne Gingrich during all of that time, and just filed
for divorce in August 1999. This is hardly the first time Newt has
cheated, either. "It was common knowledge that Newt was involved with
other women during his [first] marriage to Jackie. Maybe not on the
level of John Kennedy. But he had girlfriends -- some serious, some
trivial." -- Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler throughout the 70s. One
woman, Anne Manning (who was married at the time), has come forward and
confirmed a relationship with him during the 1976 campaign. "We had
oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I
never slept with her.'" Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was
walking Newt's daughters back from a football game one day and cut
across a driveway where he saw a car. "As I got to the car, I saw Newt
in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his
lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy
smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter
then." (SC). According to the The Irish Times , Newt's decision to
resign was actually based on his discovery that Larry Flynt had
uncovered some very damaging personal information. Flynt had begun
"negotiating with several parties, people described as having an
association with a prostitution ring, for a series of credit card
receipts that showed Mr Gingrich paying for services. In the midst of
that negotiation, Mr Gingrich resigned suddenly." (RA). Asked the
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta for an annulment of his second
marriage, which ended in divorce after 19 years. Gingrich's second
wife, Marianne Gingrich, said through her attorney that she learned of
the request this week when she received a letter from the archdiocese.
The couple were divorced in April 2000, nine months after Newt Gingrich
filed for divorce and acknowledged a seven-year affair with Callista
Bisek, a former congressional aide. Gingrich and Bisek were married in
August 2000. (AP, 5.10.02)

    * Philip Giordano, the Republican mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut,
was arrested on two federal charges dealing with "sexual activity"
involving a child, the FBI said. Special agent Lisa Bull said the mayor
was arrested on two offenses: The use of an interstate facility to
entice a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity, and
conspiracy to carry out that offense. (CNN 2, 7.26.01)The former
Waterbury, Connecticut mayor was convicted on 17 out of 18 counts on
his indictment. Counts 1 and 2 were for the following: "Philip A.
Giordano, while acting under color of the laws of the state of
Connecticut, willfully deprived the victim of rights and privileges
secured and protected by the Constitution and laws of the United
States. That includes the right not to be deprived of liberty without
due process of law, which includes the right to be free from aggravated
sexual abuse and sexual abuse. He violated this by coercing and forcing
the victim, who was younger than 12, to engage in oral sex and genital
contact with him and by fondling her, resulting in bodily injury."
(CCB, 3.26.03)

    * Matt Glavin, former Southeastern Legal Foundation President:
Glavin was charged back in May with public indecency for allegedly
masturbating in public at the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area on
Medlock Bridge road in North Fulton County. An undercover federal
police officer reported that Glavin fondled him after he encountered
the activist pleasuring himself. And it wasn't the first time that
Glavin had been caught doing this in the same park. In 1996, Glavin
quietly pleaded "no contest" to charges of public indecency after being
caught in an identical situation. (CLoaf, 10.14.00)

    * Marty Glickman, commentator/editor/publisher: Seven years ago,"
wrote Tallahassee political commentator Marty Glickman (aka Republican
Marty) in his newsletter The Ugly Truth, "a rednecked, classless
pervert named Clinton from a low rent state like Arkansas was tearing
down all standards for the highest office in the land... Decency,
morals, telling the truth, and standing accountable were all American
values that were on the line. With a rapist, a liar, and a sexual
harasser and his First Enabler Hillary Clinton in charge; the country
and it's children were perilously close to sinking beneath recovery."
Harsh words, but we hope they taste good - because Republican Marty
sure is eating them right now. Last week he was taken into custody by
Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a
juvenile and one count of the delivery of LSD. Yes, it turns out that
Marty was doing his own bit to help the children of America by giving
drugs and money to underage girls in exchange for sex. (DU, 4.23.01)

    * Rudolph Giuliani, former New York mayor: His estranged wife has
filed for divorce, citing adultery. "If there's going to be a divorce,
let's have the truth about why - Rudy's open and notorious adultery,"
she said. (CBS, 1.21.02)

    * Phil Gramm, Texas: Invested $7500 in a soft-core porn movie in
1974. (Franken - 153). Is on his second wife. (DO)

    * Mark A. Grethen, Virginia: Convicted in 2002 on six counts of sex
crimes against children. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * J.D. Guckert/Jeff Gannon, reporter: Homosexual who supports
conservative causes and served as a pro-White House reporter under a
fake name. (HC, 2.11.05)

    * Jon Grunseth: The Republican businessman withdrew his candidacy
for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming
in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter. (ArmSub,
7=2E13.05)

    * Steve Gunderson, Wisconsin: Homosexual who supported the
Christian Coalition in public. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Susan J. Haase, Illinois: Divorced clerk of Wheatland Township
and member of Illinois State Republican Central Committee. (AASP)

    * Dr. W. David Hager: Sex was always a source of conflict in the
marriage. Though it wasn't emotionally satisfying for her, Davis says
she soon learned that sex could "buy" peace with Hager after a long day
of arguing, or insure his forgiveness after she spent too much money.
"Sex was coinage; it was a commodity," she said. Sometimes Hager would
blithely shift from vaginal to anal sex. Davis protested. "He would
say, 'Oh, I didn't mean to have anal sex with you; I can't feel the
difference,'" Davis recalls incredulously. "And I would say, 'Well
then, you're in the wrong business.'" By the 1980s, according to Davis,
Hager was pressuring her to let him videotape and photograph them
having sex. She consented, and eventually she even let Hager pay her
for sex that she wouldn't have otherwise engaged in--for example,
$2,000 for oral sex, "though that didn't happen very often because I
hated doing it so much. So though it was more painful, I would let him
sodomize me, and he would leave a check on the dresser," Davis admitted
to me with some embarrassment. This exchange took place almost weekly
for several years. For the next seven years Hager sodomized Davis
without her consent while she slept roughly once a month until their
divorce in 2002, she claims. "My sense is that he saw [my narcolepsy]
as an opportunity," Davis surmises. Sometimes she fought Hager off and
he would quit for a while, only to circle back later that same night;
at other times, "the most expedient thing was to try and somehow get it
[over with]. In order to keep any peace, I had to maintain the illusion
of being available to him." At still other moments, she says, she
attempted to avoid Hager's predatory advances in various ways--for
example, by sleeping in other rooms in the house, or by struggling to
stay awake until Hager was in a deep sleep himself. But, she says,
nothing worked. One of Davis's lifelong confidantes remembers when
Davis first told her about the abuse. "[Linda] was very angry and
shaken," she recalled. (Eschaton, 5.12.05)

    * Mark Harris: The Republican city councilman, 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. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * W. John Hathaway, Maine: A Maine Republican seeking a seat in the
United States Senate who has cast himself as a champion of family
values, became a center of controversy today after New England
newspapers published six-year-old accusations that he had had sex with
his children's 12-year-old baby sitter. (NYT 6.6.96)

    * Howard Scott Heldreth: The Republican anti-abortion activist is a
convicted child rapist in Florida. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Jesse Helms: Campaigned against gay rights. Has a gay
granddaughter. (Raw, 10.28.04)

    * Jon Hinson, Mississippi: Newly wedded (to a woman), he was
arrested at a D.C. gay bar in 1976. A year later, escaped a fire in a
gay porn theatre. Was arrested again in 1981 on charges of attempted
oral sodomy. In a men's room. In a House office building. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * Rev. Mike Hintz: A Des Moines youth pastor, who had appeared
publicly with President Bush promoting his tax cuts, is charged with
sexual exploitation by a counselor. KCCI learned that the married
father of four recently turned himself in to Johnston police. Rev. Mike
Hintz was fired from the First Assembly of God Church, located at 2725
Merle Hay Road, on Oct. 30. Hintz was the youth pastor there for three
years. Police said he started an affair with a 17-year-old woman in the
church youth group this spring. (IAC, 12.7.04)

    * Hooters of America donated 97% of its money to Republicans (Kos,
1=2E1.05)

    * Deal Hudson, Catholic GOP adviser/publisher: He announced he
would step down from his volunteer position, after the National
Catholic Reporter, another Catholic publication, published the details
of a decade-old sexual harassment case involving Hudson and an
18-year-old college student. (BN, 1.18.05)

    * Michael Huffington, California: Columnist-wife Arianna dumped him
when she found out he was cheating on her. With other men. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * Tim Hutchinson, Arkansas: In 1996 when he first ran for the
Senate, he styled himself as a conservative, family-values Republican,
an ideological approach intended to appeal to this state's many
Christian-right voters. The breakdown of the American family, he said,
was a critical national issue. Hutchinson won fairly comfortably, with
53 percent of the vote, the first Republican since Reconstruction to
capture a Senate seat in heavily Democratic Arkansas. Again, Hutchinson
is identifying himself as a conservative, family-values Republican. The
problem is that in 1999 Hutchinson, now 52, divorced his wife of 29
years, Donna, with whom he had three sons, and shortly afterward
married a former member of his office staff, Randi Fredholm, now 39.
(NYT, 5.15.02)

    * Henry Hyde, Illinois: Allegedly had an affair for five years with
Cherie Snodrass, a young mother of three, giving her an apartment and
giving her gifts of jewelry and furniture. He initiated the affair by
telling Snodgrass he was single. (Flynt - 39). He apparently broke up
the Snodgrass family. In 1983, after a yearlong investigation by the
House Ethics Committee, Crane was found to have engaged in an illicit
sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl working as a congressional
page. When the question of whether the House should expel, censure or
merely reprimand Crane reached the floor, Hyde popped up to beg mercy
for his friend. "We sit here not to characterize the crime, the breach,
the transgression, because we all know the transgression, which is
admitted and it is stipulated as reprehensible." Even so, Hyde pleaded,
"In searching our souls for the appropriate punishment, I ask the
members to consider this situation in its totality, in its entire
context." (Salon, 10.5.98)

    * Bobby Hodge - A Republican candidate for Attala County Circuit
Clerk was arrested and charged with child molesting. A spokesman for
the sheriff's department said that Hodge, a plummer and electrician, is
accused of molesting a "young girl." She was believed to be a preteen,
but authorities declined to give details about the victim or the
circumstances. (KMSH, 2.11.03)

    * Paul Ingram, former head of the Republican Party in Thurston
County, Wash.: Pleaded guilty to six rape charges in 1989. He is
serving a 20-year prison sentence. Two relatives had accused him of
attacking them for 17 years during rituals that included killing two
dozen babies in Satanist rituals. (LAT, 5.11.91)

    * Bill Janklow, South Dakota: Bill Janklow, a blunt-spoken
political titan from South Dakota, will serve 100 days in a county jail
for the death of a motorcyclist who slammed into his speeding car last
August. (CNN 1.22.04) In 1955, at age 16, appeared in juvenile court
(Moody County, South Dakota) for allegedly assaulting a 17-year-old
girl. Janklow denied charge was rape, but inadvertently tipped off
public with smug statement, "It didn't go that far, but it was
preliminary to that sort of thing." Charge dropped, records sealed. In
1967, attorney Janklow was accused of rape by Jancita Eagle Deer,
15-year-old babysitter for Janklow family. Janklow, then working for
the Office of Economic Opportunities on the Rosebud Sioux reservation,
denied charge, said enemies were trying to smear him. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Jimmy Karalis, California Young Republican: Made a name for
himself by distributing fliers at 2003 Young Republicans national
convention for "Karlpalooza '03," party offering "lots of beer, liquor
and sex." (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Jack Kemp, New York: You'll hear a lot about Kemp's marriage,
four children, and 14 children -- but you seldom hear anything about
his first wife. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Bernard Kerik: Kerik, the man tasked with protecting the United
States from the threat of terrorist attacks, fathered a daughter with a
South Korean woman while serving on the peninsula in the mid-1970s,
U=2ES. media reported over the weekend. The baby, named Lisa, was born in
1975. But Kerik deserted her and her mother when he left the country in
February 1976. (KORT, 12.5.04) Conducted two extramarital affairs
simultaneously, using a secret Battery Park City apartment for the
passionate liaisons, the New York Daily News has learned. The first
relationship, spanning nearly a decade, was with city Correction
Officer Jeannette Pinero; the second was with famed publishing titan
Judith Regan. His affair with Regan, the head of her own book
publishing company, lasted for almost a year. (Eschaton, 12.13.04) Then
there's the story that celebrity book publisher Judith Regan had to
hire a personal bodyguard when Kerik started 'hounding' her after their
relationship went sour. (TPM, 12.12.04) Investigators conducting a
background check of Bernard Kerik last week as part of his confirmation
hearing uncovered that the then-Secretary of Homeland Security nominee
was married to a woman he has apparently kept a secret for the past 20
years. Friends of his said they were not aware of the woman, and Kerik
did not acknowledge the marriage in his best-selling autobiography,
"The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice." Instead, he wrote about
only two marriages, one to a New Jersey woman named Jacqueline, whom he
married in 1983 when he was 28, and one to his current wife, Hala, whom
he married in 1998. But Kerik, who withdrew his name for consideration
for the nation's top security post on Friday, was also married to the
former Linda Hales in North Carolina. Kerik and Hales, who has since
remarried and changed her name to Priest, were married Aug. 10, 1978,
when she was 27 and he was three weeks shy of 24, according to her
lawyer, Ronnie Mitchell. They separated in 1982 and were officially
divorced June 6, 1983, Mitchell told Newsday. (NYND, 12.15.04) Another
story in the Post reports that Kerik was not only stalking Judith Regan
but her children too. (TPM, 12.16.04)

    * Earl Kimmering: An Anderson man who gained statewide attention by
fighting attempts by a gay couple to adopt an 8-year-old girl under his
foster care now is charged with molesting her. (AP, 1.18.05)

    * Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State: Had a 1964 divorce
and a 1974 re-marriage, peppered with lots of screwing around. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * State Sen. William "Pete" Knight, California: David Knight, son
of the state senator who was the author of the California ballot
measure that banned same-sex marriage, defied his father's law and wed
his partner of 10 years Tuesday in a quiet ceremony attended by just
two friends in San Francisco City Hall. (SFG, 3.10.04)

    * Jim Kolbe, Arizona: Was a closeted homosexual who supported an
anti-gay agenda. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Ernie Konnyu, California: Career ended in 1987 after two former
aides detailed sexual harassment to the media. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Stephen LaTourette, Ohio: Extramarital affair with Washington
lobbyist led to divorce after 21 years of marriage (and four kids).
When wife pleaded for reconciliation & marriage counseling, he said no
thanks, and asked for divorce. Over the phone. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Alan L. LeDoux, Kansas: Convicted in 2003 of aggravated criminal
sodomy, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated burglary. A plea bargain
dismissed the charge of rape. Holding a knife to her throat, he
blindfolded, duct-taped, and raped his victim in her own bed. The
victim was a member of LeDoux's wife's family, whom LeDoux described as
"a woman who had treated me with nothing but grace." The victim said
she "thought of LeDoux as a brother and a father-figure to her son and
daughter." (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio personality: Although he was
insecure and did not get out much, at 26, he married, but was divorced
after three years. His second wife moved out on Christmas weekend of
1988, and their divorce was final in 1990. In 1994, Rush married Marta
Fitzgerald, a woman Rush met online. They have worked together in a
number of endeavors, and to this day remain happily married. (PIR)
Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh announced Friday that he
and his wife, Marta, were divorcing. (AP, 6.11.04) Openly admitted to
being a drug addict. (CNN, 10.10.03)

    * Bob Livingston, Louisiana: "I have on occasion strayed from my
marriage, and doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my family."
(Flynt - 14). Allegedly had sex with lobbyists included those who
represented the defense industry. (Flynt - 15)

    * Thatcher Longstreth, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer
reported that Longstreth had filed for divorce on June 6th, after 60
years of marriage! Once again, there is here the unspeakable
interference of the Other Woman, the Councilman's Chief of Staff,
Melanie Hopkins, age 51. His office personnel say that they plan to
marry. (PMI)

    * Donald Lukens, Ohio: In a conversation secretly videotaped by a
Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens
talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food
restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I
couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around
with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this
week: "I didn't really know she was a teenager. I do now, of course."
(Time 2.13.89)

    * Connie Mack (III): Looks like the cat's out of the bag on Cher's
late ex-husband's widow and the dashing freshman Rep. Connie Mack IV
(R-Fla.). Rumors have been swirling for weeks now about Rep. Mary Bono
(R-Calif.) and Mack, both of whom recently filed for divorce from their
spouses. On Friday, a wire service had more nerve than HOH and printed
the rumor that Bono and Mack are an item, something neither House
Member denied. The Scripps Howard News Service reported that "romance
may be in the air" for Bono and Mack, the son of former Sen. Connie
Mack (R-Fla.) and great-grandson of Baseball Hall of Famer Connie Mack
(all of whose legal names are Cornelius McGillicuddy). Mack's chief of
staff, Jeff Cohen, told HOH on Monday that "Connie's marriage was in
trouble for a long time, which is why he filed for divorce in August.
But beyond that, he doesn't feel it's appropriate to discuss his
personal life." Mack and his wife, Ann, have two children, ages 5 and
3=2E Cohen did not deny that the hunky Congressman is seeing the fetching
widow of one of America's most famous pop-culture icons. Asked whether
they are "dating" or "seeing each other," Cohen said, "The statement
stands for itself." Nor did Bono's chief of staff, Frank Cullen, deny
the rumored relationship. "Out of respect for what my boss is dealing
with ... I'm not going to comment on that situation or other aspects of
her life," he told HOH. He said he and the rest of Bono's staff are
"just trying to support her." Cullen said Bono and her husband, Glenn
Baxley, a Western-wear designer and former farm-league baseball player,
have "mutually agreed to separate and have this divorce proceeding move
forward." Bono, whose two children with the late singer are now 17 and
14, has been married to Baxley since November 2001. She filed for
divorce last month. Her chief of staff described the couple's break-up
as "amicable." It seems that most folks in the Florida and California
delegations are withholding judgment, at least publicly, on whatever is
going on between the Congressman and Congresswoman. But one freshman
Member expressed disappointment with his classmate, saying through his
spokesman, "When you got two kids, it's just not worth it." (BBWW,
10.20.05)

    * Sam Malone, Ohio: Malone's son told police he came home from the
Kings Island outing and his father said: "I know what you did. ... I'm
going to wear your butt out." According to the teen's statement, Malone
ordered him to his room, telling him: "You'd better go ahead and
meditate. If I were you, I wouldn't eat anything either." Malone took
his shirt off and got a belt from his room, according to the report and
police records. When the boy tried to explain why he was late to the
checkpoint, Malone said he didn't want to hear it and told his son to
turn around, take off his shirt and pull his pants down, the statement
said. Malone is accused of hitting the boy several times with the belt.
The hospital records detail bruising to his chest, arms, back and
buttocks. The boy told police he fell at one point and Malone continued
to hit him. "I pay for your school, and you bring home poor grades,"
Malone told his son during the beating, according to the boy's
statement. "You're not paying attention." When his father stopped
hitting him, the boy told police Malone told him he wasn't finished
with him, adding: "I'm going to whip the black off you." (BBB, 7.6.05)

    * Bonnie Martinez, Montana: Divorced former state representative.
(AASP)

    * Jon Matthews: The conservative talk show host is being
investigated by police for alleged indecency with a child. (ABC)
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his
genitals to an 11 year old girl. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * John McCain, Arizona: Has a reputation as a politician who has
difficulty keeping his pants zipped, according to Republican sources.
He acknowledges that his adultery broke up his first marriage. His
second wife Cindy, the daughter of a wealthy Budweiser beer
distributor, was addicted to prescription narcotics and even stole hard
drugs from a medical charity that she ran. (SC)

    * Mitch McConnell, Kentucky: His daughter Claire, is accused of
abusing students. "The first sign of trouble came last year when one
couple learned their daughter had been strapped into her chair with a
leather belt. Since then, more than a dozen parents have removed their
elementary school youngsters amid complaints about disciplinary tactics
by one of the teachers at Hawthorne Valley. Punishment included tying
the hands of students and taping their mouths shut if they misbehaved."
(ATU, 7.17.03)

    * Jim McCrery, Louisiana: Was a closeted homosexual who supported
an anti-gay agenda. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * John McKay, Florida: During a divorce, his wife accused him of
having an affair with a young telecommunications lobbyist. The
newspapers ran with it. A week later, McKay admitted he was involved
with the woman, resigned as chairman of the state's powerful Ways and
Means Committee but denied he gave any special treatment to the
lobbyist. The two later wed. (CNN)

    * John McLaughlin, television pundit: He's been accused of sexual
harassment by several female employees, settling a suit out of court
with one in 1989. (FAIR, 8.94)

    * Pat McPherson: The Douglas County Election Commissioner was
arrested for fondling a 17-year-old girl. (Kos, 3.24.04)

    * Timothy McVeigh: Oklahoma City bomber who killed a number of
children. "His only known affiliations are as a registered Republican
in his New York days, and as a member of the National Rifle Association
while he was in the Army." (CNN, 3.29.01)

    * Ken Mehlman, Bush administration: Is allegedly a closeted
homosexual who has been extremely homophobic while in the public eye.
(BlogA, 11.10.05)

    * Jeff Miller, Ohio: A state senator sponsoring a constitutional
amendment aimed at "solemnizing the relationship of one man and one
woman" is accused in a divorce case of cheating on his wife. (Eschaton,
4=2E14.05)

    * Guy Milner, Florida: Married not once, not twice, but three
times. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Susan Molinari, New York: Divorced & remarried (to former NY
congressman Bill Paxon). (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Nicholas Morency: The Republican anti-abortion activist pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a
bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox: Another fine program brought to you
by Rupert Murdoch and Fox: "The Fox network will air a special next
month, "Who's Your Daddy?," where a daughter given up for adoption as
an infant attempts to guess the identity of her birth father for a
$100,000 prize. Activists in the adoption community immediately
attacked the special, which will air for 90 minutes Jan. 3." (SOSD,
12.16.04)

    * Sue Myrick, North Carolina: In 1989, Myrick was running for a
second term as Charlotte mayor when news reports revealed that she
committed adultery with a married man in 1973. (Dem, 8.11.03)

    * State Senator Drew Nixon: In 1997 was arrested and convicted of
soliciting a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover police
officer. (QR, 8.15.03)

    * Jim Oberweis, Illinois: Divorced Senate candidate. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * Bill O'Reilly, television pundit: Fox News Channel host Bill
O'Reilly and his former associate producer, Andrea Mackris, have agreed
to settle their dispute over her allegations that the television
personality harassed her sexually. In a case filed earlier this month,
Mackris alleged that O'Reilly, who is married, made explicit phone
calls to her in which he recommended she use a vibrator, described
sexual fantasies involving her and masturbated. (CNN, 10.28.04)

    * Bill Owens, Colorado: Killed a 28-year marriage. Devout Catholic
who made "family values" the mainstay of his platform had to back out
of keynote speeches to ultra-con groups such as Focus on the Family.
(Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Bob Packwood, Oregon: Former Oregon Sen. Packwood set all records
for sexual harassment while serving in Congress for more than a
quarter-century. The old goat apparently made a sexual play on every
pubescent female left alone for more than two minutes with the powerful
Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Packwood resigned
in the fall of 1995 after the Ethics Committee voted for his expulsion
from the Senate. The committee released 10,000 pages of evidence
against Packwood, much of it detailing his sexual abuse and harassment
of women. The committee found Packwood sexually harassed at least 17
women, mostly Senate employees, campaign workers and others "who were
effectively powerless to protest in the face of his position as a
United States senator." Twenty-nine women had accused Packwood of
sexual misconduct. (TO, 1997)

    * Brent Parker: The Republican state representative was arrested
for soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a male
prostitute. (Kos, 3.24.04)

    * Jeff Patti, Sparta, N.J., GOP Chair: Arrested on child
pornography charges. (NJH, 2.8.05)

    * Mark Pazuhanich: The Republican judge pleaded no contest to
fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
(ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * John Paulk, Focus on the Family: A self-proclaimed "former
homosexual" who works for antigay Christian media behemoth Focus on the
Family--gets caught in a Washington, DC, gay bar and loses his
leadership position on the North American board of ex-gay-ministry
network Exodus International. (AFO, 1.12.01)

    * John E. Peterson, Pennsylvania: Accused of forced kissing and
unwelcome groping of women (a page, a staffer and a lobbyist) in the
workplace over a decade. (Flynt - 52)

    * Dan Quayle, former vice president: On March 6, 1981 the
Wilmington, Delaware News-Journal reported that Paula Parkinson, a
Washington D.C. agricultural lobbyist took a Florida vacation, and
shared a cottage, with Quayle and Republican Congressmen Thomas Evans
and and Tom Railsback. Parkinson, who later posed for Playboy and
claimed affairs with at least 5 Congressmen, was apparently a very
persuasive lobbyist; she was then fighting federal crop-insurance
legislation and all three voted against it. Quayle denied having sex
with her, and she confirmed that, though only because she was sleeping
with Evans at the time. However, she said about Quayle that "We flirted
a lot and danced extremely close and suggestively. He said he wanted to
make love." In his own defense, Quayle said: "I hope there's some
respect and dignity for things I did not do." So what's worse -
cheating on your wife or dirty dancing with another woman and trying to
cheat on your wife, but getting rejected? (SC)

    * Jeffrey Kyle Randall, Minnesota: A former mayor of Clarkfield has
been sentenced to nine months in jail and six years on probation on
charges that he molested two boys from 1997 to 2003. Jeffrey Kyle
Randall, 36, of Clarkfield, also must register as a sex offender and
undergo evaluation and treatment, a judge ordered Thursday. Randall
entered an Alford plea last month to two counts of fifth-degree
criminal sexual conduct, both gross misdemeanors, in connection with
the alleged molestation of a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old. Randall was
mayor of Clarkfield from 1998 until the fall of 2004. In 2002, he ran
as a Republican in an unsuccessful bid for state representative. (Bobo,
11.5.05)

    * Robert Ray: "The former prosecutor who negotiated the deal that
kept President Bill Clinton from being indicted in the probe of his
sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky has been
charged with stalking an ex-girlfriend, a law enforcement official
said. Robert Ray surrendered to cops last night after Manhattan
resident Tracy Loughlin, 40, filed a complaint. "She tried to end it
four months ago, but he kept calling her, sending her e-mails and
showing up at places he knew she would be," the official said."
(Eschaton, 5.12.06)

    * Ronald Reagan, former president: Jane Wyman divorced Reagan,
alleging "mental cruelty." (PBS) Divorced from actress Jane Wyman;
married actress Nancy Davis -- but not before allegedly bedding a bevy
of Hollywood starlets while still married. When not estranged from all
four children, was emotionally absent for most of their lives. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * Red State Values: 17 of 23 states that don't expressly outlaw
bestiality are red states. (BBB)

    * Ralph Reed: When Ralph Reed was the boyish director of the
Christian Coalition, he made opposition to gambling a major plank in
his "family values" agenda, calling gambling "a cancer on the American
body politic" that was "stealing food from the mouths of children." But
now, a broad federal investigation into lobbying abuses connected to
gambling on Indian reservations has unearthed evidence that Reed has
been surreptitiously working for an Indian tribe with a large casino it
sought to protect--and that Reed was paid with funds laundered through
two firms to try to keep his lucrative involvement secret. (Nation,
7=2E12.04)

    * Judith Regan, publisher: Strongly condemned Bill Clinton for his
affairs with Monica Lewinsky, but later engaged in an affiar with
Bernard Kerik. (Eschaton, 12.13.04)

    * George Roche III, president of Hillsdale College: George Roche
III, president of Hillsdale since 1971 and a fund raiser who topped
$325 million during his tenure by tapping conservative wealth, resigned
shortly after his daughter-in-law, Lissa Roche, committed suicide on
the campus following her revelation to Roche's son, George IV, that she
had had an affair since 1980 with George III who had divorced his wife
of 44 years in April 1999 then surprised everyone with an October 1999
second marriage which quickly dissipated into a separation followed a
few weeks later by a reconciliation which precipitated Lissa's
confession in what had to be some kind of awkward moment of
confrontation among the four aforementioned players. (JWR, 11.29.99)

    * Nelson Rockefeller, former vice president: In 1964, Rockefeller
emerged as the clear favorite for the presidential nomination. His
divorce and remarriage in 1963, however, brought about a decline in his
popularity that he was not able to overcome. (AmP)

    * Karl Rove: Reportedly has carried on a longtime affair with
lobbyist Karen Johnson, despite being married. (Kos, 7.26.05)

    * Beverly Russell, leader in the Republican Party, the Christian
Coalition and Pat Robertson's presidential campaign: caused the breakup
of Susan Smith's parents' marriage, resulting in her father's suicide
when she was 6 years old. This might have caused her stepfather to do
everything possible to give her support and make up to her some of the
horror and turmoil she had experienced, but not Beverly Russell. He
began molesting her when she was 15, all the while aware that she was
emotionally fragile (she had attempted suicide two years before). Smith
later killed her own children. (NWW, 8.7.95)

    * Jack Ryan, Illinois: Illinois Senate candidate Jack Ryan dropped
out of the race Friday amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations
that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising
candidacy to implode in four short days. In those records, his ex-wife,
"Boston Public (news - web sites)" actress Jeri Ryan, said Ryan took
her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans and tried to
get her to perform sex acts with him while others watched. (AP,
6=2E26.04)

    * Dominick J. Salfi, Florida: Divorced former circuit court judge.
(AASP)

    * Joe Scarborough, Florida: Divorced wife in 1999. Scarborough got
a divorce. Then he suddenly resigned from Congress, just six months
after re-election. (Invoked old fallback excuse of wanting to "spend
more time" with children.) Then he suddenly resigned as publisher of
the Independent Florida Sun. Then, just as suddenly, Lori Klausutis,
28-year-old staffer to Scarborough, was found dead in Scarborough's
district office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Date was July 20, 2001.
Cause of death: Blow to the head. Conclusion: Heart condition caused
her to collapse, fall, hit head on a desk, and die. Story barely a blip
on the radar. Lots of people left with lots of questions. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * Dan Schaefer, Colorado: Divorced member of Congress. (Salon,
1=2E1.04)

    * David Schippers, impeachment counsel: Had his own secret mistress
for 25 years -- and he had the nerve to bring her to the Judiciary
Committee's impeachment hearings! Nancy Ruggero was a young secretary
in his office nearly Monica Lewinsky's age when their affair began in
the early 1970's. Schippers, now 69, had 10 children with his wife of
45 years, Jackie, whom he called "his one and only sweetheart," on 60
Minutes. Moreover Schippers, who originally trained for the priesthood,
is a "papal knight" - one of only several hundred in the world - and
told the New Republic that adultery is, indeed, a mortal sin. (Dem,
8=2E11.03)

    * Laura Schlessinger, conservative television/radio personality:
Has not spoken to her mother since the late 80's. "Does not see much"
of her younger sister. Hired her mother as a secretary. She quit after
Laura told her to "learn how to type." Has enocuraged her husband to
forget his family... "My husband HAD a prior family. And I figured I
went through 12 hours of labor and a C-section. I figured, I'm going to
name this thing anything I want, and I said, 'Lew, do you have any
problem with the last name Schlessinger? ' He said, 'No.'" Speaks out
against birth control in any form, and yet has had her tubes tied.
Shows an open disrespect for women who choose to have children AND
jobs. And yet she is herself a working mother. Says that you should
save yourself for marriage, stay married once you are married and that
adultery is just plain wrong and that women who sleep around are
"sluts." Has admited to having sex before marriage in college. Is
herself divorced, despite enocuraging many disatisfied wives to stand
by their men, no matter what. Had an affair with another man while she
was married. Had an affair with her current husband while he was with
his previous wife. Posed nude for pornographic pictures. (RLA)

    * John Schmitz, Colorado: Extreme right-wing activist. Fathered two
out-of-wedlock children with a student. Daughter is Mary Kay
LeTourneau, schoolteacher now in prison for having sex with 13-year-old
student, who fathered two children by her. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Ed Schrock, Virginia: Abruptly announced his retirement, citing
unspecified allegations that "called into question my ability to
represent the citizens of Virginia's 2nd Congressional District."
The two-term Republican did not answer questions or address the
allegations. A Washington-based activist claimed on his Web site that
Schrock engaged in homosexual activity, and offered audio evidence to
support the case. Schrock has refused to confirm or deny the
allegations for two weeks. Schrock is married and has an adult son.
Michael Rogers, the blogActive publisher, accused Schrock of being a
hypocrite for opposing gay-rights issues. (blogA, 8.31.04)

    * Larry Jack Schwarz, Colorado: Custer County Sheriff Fred Jobe
said the investigation began about three weeks ago when his office
received allegations that Schwarz "might be in possession of pictures
and material of sexual exploitation of children." There are three
alleged victims, all of whom were family members living in the Schwarz
home when the incidents reportedly occurred, Jobe said. (RMN, 12.5.01)

    * Arnold Schwarzenegger: Six women who came into contact with
Arnold Schwarzenegger on movie sets, in studio offices and in other
settings over the last three decades say he touched them in a sexual
manner without their consent. In interviews with The Times, three of
the women described their surprise and discomfort when Schwarzenegger
grabbed their breasts. A fourth said he reached under her skirt and
gripped her buttocks. (LAT, 10.2.03) Republican governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was
28. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Gordon Shadburne, Oregon: His first scandal was sending a letter
on county stationery to local fundamentalist churches, preaching that
homosexuality was "the stronghold of Satan." Not a big deal, but a bit
excessive. But when he was found to have used county money to take his
sweetheart shopping in Edmonton, Alberta (of all places) the papers had
a field day and he was forced to resign. Because, as you've guessed by
now, his sweetheart was a man. And here's the rest of the story, as
Paul Harvey would say: Reporters first started wondering because one of
Shadburnes top aides was openly gay; he actually wrote the gay rights
law that Shadburne later opposed. True to form, Shadburne fired this
highly respected former county commissioner, offering him 4 week's
severance pay if he wouldn't talk to the press. This caused another
aide to quit. Then a number of sources reported that Shadburne had
homosexual affairs himself. Most prominent was the testimony of
Shadburne's ex-wife during mediation proceedings. The County Auditor
issued a report criticizing Shadburne for paying his long-time friend
and former roommate $29,000 in nine months as an independent
contractor, despite very poorly documented hours and questionable work
output. Shadburne's friend was during this time one of the highest paid
public officials in the county, working from home; the commissioners
themselves only made $33,000 a year. Finally, the roof caved in.
Shadburne quit his commissioner post amid allegations of cocaine use
and pile-on orgies during a county-paid business trip, and was
convicted twice of using county money for personal business. (SC)

    * Don Sherwood, Pennsylvania: Repeatedly punched and choked a
Maryland woman during a "five-year intimate relationship" with her,
according to a lawsuit. Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, Md., says that
after each "unprovoked and vicious attack," Sherwood, 64, promised he
wouldn't do it again and begged her not to leave him, according to the
four-count lawsuit filed by Patrick M. Regan, a Washington lawyer.
(Eschaton, 6.16.05) Admitted in court papers filed Thursday that he had
a five-year affair with a Maryland woman, but he denied abusing her, as
she claimed in a $5.5 million civil suit. The court papers were filed
by Sherwood, R-Pa., in response to the lawsuit filed last month by
Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, Md. In it, she alleges that he brutally
assaulted her and struck her on several occasions. (Kos, 7.22.05)

    * Tom Shortridge: The Republican campaign consultant was sentenced
to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old
girl. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania: Shacked up with a
transportation-industry lobbyist, put her on his payroll, and voted any
way she wanted him to. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr.: The Republican City Councilman pleaded no
contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
(ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair
Broadcast Group: Was arrested in his hometown of Baltimore and charged
with a misdemeanor sex offense. Sinclair owns WPGH, the Fox affiliate
in Pittsburgh, and programs most of WPTT. The Baltimore Sun reported
that Smith, 45, was arrested Tuesday night in an undercover sting at a
downtown corner frequented by prostitutes. Sinclair issued a statement
that Smith's arrest was unrelated to company business and "The company
will continue to operate under the direction of its current
management." (Eschaton, 4.30.04) Sinclair is ran by David Smith, who in
the mid-1970s was a partner in a company called Cine Processors,
according the Los Angeles Times, which cites public records and a
former partner in the company as sources. David E. Williams, Smith's
partner in the business, told the Times that Cine Processors' sole
business was the development of 8mm pornographic films. According to
Williams, the film company went out of business in 1975 or 1976 after
police confiscated film and other materials during an obscenity raid.
Baltimore police officials were unable to locate records of the raid,
citing the decades since the raid took place as the reason why. (LAT,
10.27.04). Never mind that (David) Smith's own behavior had almost
nothing in common with (Sinclair's vice president of corporate
relations, Mark) Hyman's moralistic segments. According to several
sources close to Smith, the principal owner of Sinclair has never been
the paragon of personal virtue that his stations preach and his
political allies champion. Having launched his career selling
pornographic videos in Baltimore's red-light district during the 1970s,
Smith has apparently spent the past thirty years refining that passion.
After he was caught by police in 1996 getting a blow job from a
prostitute while driving a company Mercedes, his sexual adventures
became a matter of public record, but according to his friends, that
incident only begins to tell the story. "That was the time he got
caught," says one. "He's a whoremonger. A real whoremonger. He loves
the titty bars. The only people he likes go to the titty bars with him.
Those are the only people he trusts. He also goes out to Vegas all the
time. He goes to the high-end titty bars. He's always getting the
private upstairs rooms, champagne, the works." (DCMG, 11.22.05)

    * Douglas Smith: Boy Scouts of America's National Director of
Programs Douglas Smith will appear in a Dallas courtroom tomorrow to
face charges of posessing child pornography. He previously said "Some
intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon
its values and to become fundamentally different. They want scouting to
forego its constitutional rights, affirmed in 2000 by the Supreme Court
in BSA v. Dale, and adopt fundamentally different values from the ones
that helped shape the character of Mr. Collins and 106 million other
young men over the past 94 years." (Raw, 3.29.05)

    * Alan Stangeland, Minnesota: Married father of seven swore that
the several hundred long-distance phonecalls made to female aide in
1986-87 -- and charged to his House credit card -- were not evidence of
a romantic relationship. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist: Consorted with a prostitute. (ChT,
9=2E13.04)

    * David Swartz: The Republican County Commissioner pleaded guilty
to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years
in prison. (ArmSub, 7.13.05)

    * Randall Terry: Is divorced. Campaigns against homosexuality, yet
has a homosexual son. (BN, 4.8.05)

    * Bill Thomas, California: Affair with healthcare lobbyist Deborah
Steelman. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice: Accused of sexual
harassment by Anita Hill. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Strom Thurmond, South Carolina: Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a
78-year-old retiree living in Los Angeles, says former Sen. Strom
Thurmond, a onetime segregationist, fathered her when he was 22 and
living in his parents' home. Her mother, Carrie Butler, 16 at the time,
worked as a maid in the Thurmond home. (AP, 12.16.03)

    * John Tower, Texas: Boozing, philandering, messy divorce (from
wife number two), and appearing in a newspaper while wearing a Superman
costume, reportedly while drunk. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * Mike Trout, radio host: He worked for anti-gay group Focus on the
Family and admitted to cheating on his wife. (AFO, 1.12.01)

    * Robin Vanderwall, Virginia: A third-year law student at Regent
University, who helped run several successful campaigns for local
Republicans, was arrested Jan. 10 and charged with two counts of
soliciting sex with a minor over the Internet. (ACS, 1.14.03)

    * Thomas A. Varrell, New Hampshire: Divorced state legislator.
(AASP)

    * Sol Wachtler, New York: Had longterm affair while he was married.
She broke up with him. He started stalking her, threatening her, and
once even sent a condom inside a greeting card to her 14-year-old
daughter. When he threatened to kidnap the girl, Mom called the FBI;
they tapped her phone, and nailed him. Wachtler and his mistress were
step-cousins by marriage. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * John Warner, Virginia: Dumped first wife Catherine Mellon (she of
the ultra-right-wing and obscenely wealthy Mellon-Scaife clan) -- from
whom he won a $7 million divorce settlement -- for Elizabeth Taylor.
Married Liz in '76; separated in '81; divorced in '82. (Salon, 1.1.04)

    * J.C. Watts, Oklahoma: Allegedly while a teen, he sired two
out-of-wedlock children with two different women. Abandoned his sister,
who had problems with drugs. Once she was arrested, he turned his first
visit with her in more than a year into a photo opportunity. (Flynt -
50)

    * Jim West, Mayor of Spokane, Wash.: Jim West broke a 2 day silence
on Sunday morning by calling the Steven A. Smith, editor of the
Spokesman Review with a response to allegations that he masturbated in
his office. West and the members of the Pac NW Pedophile clan have been
accused of using an at risk boys camp, Morning Star Boys Ranch , as a
library of sorts to check out young boys for camping trips and hiking.
It is alleged that during these trips the clan molested the young men.
Apparently there is another member of the Pac NW Pedophile clan who, as
yet, remains un-named. Read on... West, who resigned last week from the
boys ranch board of directors, later told Smith he "vaguely remembers"
maybe he and Hahn "both took one kid on a hike or camping trip once."
The mayor also referred to a story in Saturday's paper in which a man
named "Scott" said he was sexually molested by Hahn and reported the
conduct to West during a 50-mile Boy Scout hike around Mount Rainier in
1980. Smith said West "couldn't remember the kid. He doesn't recall the
incident." West said another adult on the trip, whom he didn't
identify, "told him not to worry about it, that we didn't know about
sexual abuse in 1980," Smith said in relating the mayor's comments. But
West also said, "It may be possible that the kid said something, maybe
about being fondled, and maybe I just didn't recognize how important
that might have been." West goes on to say he expected there to be more
men coming forward. When the newspaper editor asked the mayor if other
men claiming to be abuse victims are likely to come forward, he said,
"probably so." West, on being gay: "I'm being destroyed because I am a
gay man, which is fine. I've been in public life, I can accept that.
Because I am a gay man, because of this double life, it has been hell."
(BBB, 5.9.05)

    * Keith Westmoreland, Florida: Arrested last week in Florida on
seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under
16. (Tenn, 6.18.02)

    * Reverend Stephen White, anti-gay crusader: Faces charges that he
solicited sex from a teenage boy in a Philadelphia suburb. (Yale,
10.23.03)

    * S. Vance Wilkins, Virginia: Rather than defy a chorus of party
leaders calling for him to step aside, he relinquished his post as the
state's most powerful legislator because of sexual harassment
allegations. The 65-year-old Republican, sounding despondent at times,
told reporters in a telephone conference call that his decision was
best for the party. (AP, 6.14.02)

    * George Will, conservative columnist: Soon after the alleged
incident, Will and his wife separated, then later divorced. (Salon)
Committed adultery against his first wife, Madeleine; Will's divorce
left his wife with their Downs syndrome son. (Dem, 8.11.03)

    * Steve Wilsey, Focus on the Family: One of Focus on the Family's
youth conselors and a man who was considered a mentor to kids, was
convicted Dec. 19 of one count of "sexual assault on a child by a
person in a position of trust." The judgment came after prosecutors
charged Wilsey with molesting an 8-year-old boy--the son of another FOF
employee--over a period of 16 months. (AFO, 1.12.01)

    * Robert K. Wilson, Ohio: Divorced former state party treasurer.
(AASP)

    * Charles Wingate, Colorado: Convicted on 16 felony counts and two
misdemeanor charges. He was nailed for bouncing checks, charging pizzas
to his state-issued credit card, and stealing and pawning city-owned
equipment, including his city-owned computer. Because he was also a
habitual (some might suggest addicted) Internet porn surfer -- using,
of course, his city-owned computer, on city time. He was also sued for
failing to pay off his campaign debts. (Salon, 1.1.04)