Jeffrey Kyle Randall

Claims to fame: Republican mayor of Clarkfield, Minnesota; convicted child molester

Moral apex, and the outcome, as reported by the Grand Forks Herald, November 5, 2005:

Former Clarkfield mayor sentenced on molestation charges

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. - 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.

Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Randall:

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

— Matthew 18:6