Republican Sexual Offenders, Abusers and Enablers, Part 52

This is the 52nd on the Republican list of sex offenders, abusers and enablers who contribute to rape culture. These are people who have abused their power or defended the abuse of power. These are not people who are involved in consensual scandals such as being gay, having an affair, being polyamorous, inviting multiple sexual partners into their marriage or soliciting sex workers unless they are trafficked against their will. They may be hypocrites, but they are not sex offenders.

• 1277 Dan Rodimer, a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives, was charged with murder after killing someone in a fight. He has been involved in at least three other fights in the past.

• 1278 Dennis Coggins, the mayor of Hoxie, Arkansas, was accused of sexual harassment – he pressured her for sex when she tried to rent a house from him, repeatedly forced her to hug him, and continually demanded sex in exchange for rent and utility discounts, which she refused.

• 1279 Les Stapleton, mayor of Prestonburg, Kentucky, resigned shortly after a city employee was sued for sexual harassment and sexual assault – but he himself stated that he did not resign because of this.

• 1280 William Keith Dodd, a pastor from Kansas, pleaded no contest to rape of a child under the age of fourteen.

• 1288 Tifany Adams, chairwoman of the Cimarron County Republican Party in Oklahoma, was charged with the kidnapping and murder of two women, one of whom was the mother of her grandchildren.

• 1289 Jesse Law, chairman of the Clark County Republican Party (NV), was arrested for domestic violence. The district attorney declined to prosecute.

• 1290 Brian Ormes, a primary candidate for the Kentucky state House, was arrested for strangulation of a minor after his child was nearly hit by a ball at Walmart.

• 1291 Solomon Peña, the failed candidate for the New Mexico House of Representatives, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder to eliminate witnesses in his upcoming trial for hiring people to shoot at the homes of Democratic candidates.

• 1292 Robert Lookingbill, city councilman of Thurmond, MD, was arrested for sexual abuse of a child

• 1293 Zack Scrivner, district administrator of Kern County (CA) and protégé of Kevin McCarthy, is under investigation for sexually abusing his daughter after one of his other children stabbed him in the chest in self-defense.

• 1294 New Hampshire State Representative Jess Edwards fought to retain child marriage. In her opinion, children should only be allowed to marry when they are of “mature and fertile age.”

• 1295 David Love, a retired Kentucky police officer and member of the Patriots Guard Riders, was arrested and charged with the rape of a 13-year-old.
• 1296 Bill Halle, a member of the Butler school board and founder of the Patriot Party, an extremist Republican party in Pennsylvania, was charged with grooming, sexual assault, bribery of minors
• 1297 Seth Waxman, vice president of the planning commission in Mason, Michigan, was arrested for soliciting minors.