870: Sandy Smith

Sandy Smith won the Republican primary for North Carolina’s First Congressional District only to lose in the general. Two ex-husbands and her daughter have accused her of domestic violence. Her daughter filed for a protective order claiming that Smith “held me down by my hair and punched me in the face with a closed fist.” The protection order has been dismissed and she and her daughters are, according to Smith, on good terms.

The allegations from her ex-husbands are from divorce records. They are not, as she claimed, from George Soros. However, both her ex-husbands were interviewed and confirmed that she was violent and abusive. They provided some extraordinary examples. She retorted by claiming she was the abuse survivor.

Smith was even included as an example in a book called  Abuse OF men BY women: It happens, it hurts, and it’s time to get real about it.

• WEAL: NC GOP congressional candidate accused of domestic violence, lies
• The Daily Beast: Scandal-Plagued MAGA Candidate Has Even More Wild Secrets

The Herald-Sun
Durham, North Carolina · Friday, November 04, 2022

659: Ronald Ilg

Ronald Ilg was a neonatologist and medical director who ran as a moderate conservative candidate for the Orchard Prairie school board. He lost his campaign.

While his second wife was divorcing him, he was trying to scare her into coming back to him. At the same time, he was carrying on a BDSM relationship with another woman who he forced compliance from by forcing her into an underground storage tank until she agreed to obey him. While on vacation with her in Mexico, he choked her while she struggled to breathe, getting her to agree to sign a sex slave contract signed in blood with their fingerprints.

He was distraught at losing his wife and attempted to engage thugs on the dark web to beat her, break her hands, kidnap her, force her to take heroin to addict, and other various schemes he conjured up. He put money in escrow to pay them upon completion. This included threatening to addict her son to heroin, beat her father, and kill her dog. The FBI were already researching this, alerted by the woman he was having an affair with. She thought he was trying to hire someone to kill his wife.

• The Daily Beast: Hitmen, Bunkers & Bondage: Inside the Case of Washington Baby Doctor Ronald Ilg
• KREM: Spokane doctor charged in kidnapping plot accused of forcing woman into ‘sex slavery’
• Crypto Potato: 8 Years in Prison for a Doctor Paying $60K in BTC to Dark Web Hitmen
• The Spokesman-Review: Ronald Ilg, neonatal doctor who pleaded guilty in dark web kidnapping, extortion plot, gets 8 years in prison

The Spokesman-Review
Spokane, Washington · Wednesday, January 25, 2023