Conservative Babylon

Claims to fame: Roman Catholic Pope; author; pornographer; fornicator; “dissolute sinner with bastard children all over Europe” (Rotten.com); Muslim-hater (more…)

Claims to fame: Former Garden Grove, California, police officer; former lawyer; former Orange County Assistant Sheriff and chief of staff to fellow Conservative Babylonian Mike Carona; “a devoted family man, a hard-working immigrant, and a Mormon who doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke”; grifter; adulterer; general sleazebag (more…)

Claims to fame: Former Orange County, California, Sheriff-Coroner / head of Orange County Sheriff’s Department; nicknamed “America’s Sheriff” by Larry King after leading the hunt for the killer of seven-year-old Samantha Runnion; former chair, California Council on Criminal Justice; former senior adviser, Emergency Response Senior Advisory Committee on Homeland Security (appointed by fellow Conservative Babylonian George W. Bush); former commissioner, California State Athletic Commission (appointed by fellow Conservative Babylonian Arnold Schwarzenegger); one-time hopeful for the Lieutenant Governor’s office; self-described “conservative Christian” who attended Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral; misogynist; racist; pal to mobsters; bad cop; alleged serial adulterer; jailbird (more…)

See all entries for Mark Sanford

Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) is being criticized in media reports for using state airplanes for campaign events and personal activities such as a dental appointment, hair cut, and his son’s soccer game.

More at Politics Daily.

State Senator David Thomas [R-Greenville County] says Governor Mark Sanford broke state law by the type of airline ticket he used on two international flights while conducting state business.

More at WLTX.

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Good news, but not much else to report — headline tells all — although KSFY has a brief piece.

Meanwhile, Klaudt’s page on the South Dakota Sex Offender Registry has come to our attention… (more…)

Claims to fame: Retired EMT; self-proclaimed “Mayor” of Maltby, Washington; vice president, Maltby Neighborhood Alliance; president, Little Bear Creek Protective Association; member, Highway 2 Safety Coalition; one of three Republicans running for Snohomish County Council, 2009; husband; divorcé; indecent-liberty taker; convicted felon; liar by omission; schmuck

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August 7, 2009: CBS News tells all.

Claims to fame: Former mayor of Gainesville, Georgia; former city councilmember; former deacon, First Baptist Church, Gainesville; failed candidate for Georgia state senate, 2006; Republican (natch); allegedly drunk naked guy

Moral apex: Arrested for public indecency, June 20, 2009.

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Claims to fame: Republican Orange County, California, Superior Court Judge (appointed to the bench in 1995 by Republican Governor Pete Wilson); kiddie-porn addict

Moral apex: Busted in 2001 for storing more than 100 sexually explicit images of young boys on his home computer. Ultimately, more than 1,500 photos were found in Kline’s possession.

How he was caught: A Canadian “vigilante hacker infiltrated his computer with a (more…)

Claims to fame: Republican judge from Creek County, Oklahoma; husband; father of three; public wanker; a.k.a. “The Penis Pump Judge”

Moral apex: Caught in 2003 wanking into one of those recreational penis pump things.

So? Behind the bench. While presiding over court cases. Two of which were murder trials.

Details from The Smoking Gun: “For example, on May 13, while he was presiding over State v. Kurt Arnold Vomberg (who was accused of killing his girlfriend’s 21-month-old daughter), Thompson loudly pumped himself up.

“Two court employees told investigators that they saw Thompson attach the suction device to his penis, while five jurors reported hearing whooshing sounds, which they thought were coming from either a bicycle pump, blood pressure cuff, or an air cushion on the judge’s chair.

“After a search of Thompson’s former courtroom and chambers yielded items that tested positive for seminal fluid, investigators secured a search warrant to obtain a DNA sample from the ex-jurist. Thompson’s demise was triggered by a complaint filed against him by the Oklahoma Attorney General, who sought to oust the jurist for a variety of illicit behavior.

“Along with using the penis pump, Thompson also allegedly shaved and oiled his private parts, according to accounts given to state investigators by court employees.”

At his trial in 2006, reported USA Today, “his former court reporter, Lisa Foster, testified that she saw Thompson expose himself at least 15 times during trial between 2001 and 2003. Prosecutors said he also used a device known as a penis pump during at least four trials in the same period. … (more…)

Claims to fame: High-profile Republican political operative; Director of Operations and Budget, King County, Washington, Prosecutor’s office for 25 years; George W. Bush lookalike; Internet predator; would-be child molester (more…)

Claims to fame: Christian church youth group “discipleship leader”; lawyer; Orange County, CA, Republican chair; congressional aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher; aide to California Assemblymember Scott Baugh; son of Republican Ben Nielsen, former mayor of Fountain Valley, CA; member, radical right-wing Federalist Society; liberal-hater; raging anti-gay closet homosexual; kiddie-porn collector; molester of young boys; liar; hypocrite to the nth degree (more…)

Claims to fame: Brown County, Wisconsin, Republican Party chairman; closet ‘mo; child-corruptor; exhibitionist; pothead

Moral apex: Giving booze and dope to teenage boys — including one he was also molesting.

Charges: Two counts of child enticement; two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child; one count of exposing himself to a child. WisPolitics.com has a scan of the complaint. (more…)

Claims to fame: Former executive director, Missouri House Republican Campaign Committee; former district director for Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-Columbia); former Missouri Deputy Lt. Governor/Senior Advocate; chief of staff to Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder; Internet predator (more…)

Claims to fame: Drake University student body president, 2001; member, Sigma Chi; head, Iowa College Republicans; executive director, Republican Legislative Majority Fund; kiddie-porn pervert; girlfriend-basher; baby killer

Moral apices: In chronological order…

Worked four weeks (January, 2006) for Mitt Romney’s Commonwealth PAC; left to make his own bid for Iowa state legislature.

One month later, somebody dobbed him in for having kiddie porn on his Republican Party-issued laptop. Pled guilty. No jail time. Had to register as a sex offender. Did, but lied about his address. Arrested November 2, 2006.

Arrested again, just one week later, for attacking his girlfriend, then ramming his car into hers. While he was drunk. Pled guilty, March, 2007.

Still no jail. Let loose with a tracking device — which he cut off. Disappeared. (more…)

See all entries for John Ensign

The Las Vegas Sun has the scans:

Meanwhile, Mr. “Sanctity of Marriage” says he’s voting against the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor “to protect the sanctity of our Constitution” (!):

There’s a new, permanent page on ConBab that tells you everything you need to know (at least, as of August 5, 2009) to get up to speed on the C Street “Family” / Fellowship Foundation:

See also:
• John Ensign
• Chip Pickering
• Mark Sanford

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Story at the Wichita Eagle.

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“Hot on the heels of the Sanford and Ensign scandals comes the adulterous tale of Chip Pickering. Max Blumenthal on why Republicans don’t want the former congressman’s diary released.”

All the dirt: “The Secret GOP Sex Diary,” The Daily Beast, July 23, 2009

Claim to fame: German bank founded in 1917 “for institutions and employees in the Catholic Church.” (more…)