Jim Harrison: Republican State Representative who was convicted on corruption charges in office.

This is the Republican Party.
John Paulk: Republican and leader of a fundamentalist group seeking to “cure gays” who lied about prowling for gay sex himself, while running said group.

This is the Republican Party.
Pat McPherson: Republican County Election Commissioner who was arrested for sexual assault.

This is the Republican Party.
William Lee Slocum, Jr.: Republican State Senator who pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act when he operated the a sewage treatment plant and allowed regular repeat discharges of raw sewage.

This is the Republican Party.
Paul Ingram: Republican Party leader who served 14 years in prison for on six counts of rape.

This is the Republican Party.
James W. Treffinger: Republican chief county executive who was convicted of corruption and fraud and ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution, plus serve 13 months in jail.

This is the Republican Party.
Matt Gaetz: Republican Representative who likely violated House rules by spending over $180,000 in taxpayer funds to rent office space from a friend and donor.

This is the Republican Party.
Gaetz was previously featured in this thread for his DUI. https://twitter.com/adamselby/status/1107454625907687425
Frank P. North: Republican State Representative who was found guilty and given a 3-year sentence for his part in the Illinois Concrete Scandal.

North was convicted alongside others previously featured in this thread: https://twitter.com/adamselby/status/1248474976841154560

This is the Republican Party.
Paul Wayne Derrick: Republican State Representative who was convicted of accepting $1,000 in cash for his support of a gambling proposal.

This is the Republican Party.
Robert Henry Park: Republican county tax collector who pleaded guilty to theft charges.

This is the Republican Party.
Michael P. Decker: Republican State Representative who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, mail fraud, and money laundering. Decker solicited Democrats and agreed to accept over $50,000 in return for switching parties.

This is the Republican Party.
Joseph Monteleone Jr.: Republican city councilman who was found guilty of molesting underage girls.

This is the Republican Party.
Coy C. Privette,: Republican County Commissioner who pled guilty to aiding and abetting prostitution.

This is the Republican Party.
Jim Bunn: Republican congressman who won his seat with the support of the Christian Coalition. After winning, he left his wife and children’s mother, married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll with a salary of nearly six figures.

This is the Republican Party.
Monty J. Bennett: Republican megadonor and businessman who’s companies received more than $50 million in PPP money intended for small businesses. These companies have a combined revenue of over $2 billion per year.

This is the Republican Party.
Bennett has given more than $1 million to Trump, and the Republican Party as a whole just since 2016. He hired Trump fundraisers to act as lobbyists as the CARES Act was being negotiated and drafted.

Other companies have returned PPP money intended for small businesses. https://twitter.com/adamselby/status/1254967120460464128
For good measure, Bennett’s companies also laid off most of their workers rather than assisting them through government-mandated shutdowns. One third of those laid off were laid off permanently.
Meanwhile, Bennett only cut his salary 15%, and has holed up at his 1,000 acre ranch. A ranch that he previously spent $250,000 on to fight a water pipeline, by purchasing two board members of the Tarrant County Regional Water District.
Oh, and if you want a list of the companies these jackasses own… luckily they've done the work of putting together a list for me: https://www.ahtreit.com/files/5650/Ashford_Trust_Portfolio_v6_3.13.2020.pdf

(mirrored here in case they delete it: https://adamselby.com/tmp/Ashford_Trust_Portfolio_v6_3.13.2020.pdf)
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