Try reading a little about history, maybe google Kent State massacre. - Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:55 am: ===You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad.===. After more than two decades with the Navy, he worked as a contractor for Blackwater in Afghanistan and Pakistan, then ran Extreme SEAL Experience, a camp where civilians paid more than two thousand dollars for a week of simulated SEAL training. - Annonin' - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 6:13 pm: NG units are trained for specific tasks. - Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 12:13 pm: On the use of public resources (uniforms and marked vehicles) in the ad, I too find it distasteful and wonder if it might be unlawful. But Sullivan should probably stop digging holes that hell eventually have to fill himself. - Paddyrollingstone - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:09 pm: Getting some Jack! Unfortunately for him, voters know the truth and theyll remember it at the ballot box next week., By providing your cell phone number you consent to receive recurring text message updates from the Democratic Governors Association, including by automated text messages. My wife is a big fan of Fifty Shades of Grey, so I wrote some books in that vein for our fortieth anniversary, and they sell more than all my other books combined, he told me, sounding a little abashed. - Roadrager - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:12 am: - New Day - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:14 am: Oh my. To the issue of calling out the National Guard to help fight crime - Ill take a hard pass on that one. - Brr Cold - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:26 pm: LOL. - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:11 pm: - lenoard - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:22 pm: I have an idea take all the republican candidates fo r Governor put them in a sack shake it up really good. Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. - Lincoln Lad - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:05 pm: The GOP pool of candidates will make this easy for JB. - Frank talks - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 5:02 pm: Jesse should stop talking and get a running mate. I am hoping Pritzker is patient enough to let the gop nominee get into the small government shtick and then pound them into dust over the recent gop big government intrusion moves. (When I visited him, he greeted me by saying, Nice truck. He has outlined the actions of a dictator. - SWSider - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:21 pm: Lol. And it needs to be an all hands on deck situation, whereas the current governor wants to look the other way and make it a political football and all that. Heres the script for the only ad you should be running: I grew up in Central Illinois and those are the values that Ill always uphold. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was a federal law that criminalized false statements about having a military medal. USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - WAW - United States Department of Justice Instead, people called Bart a stalker. The hard part, Shipley said, is that nobody believes anybody anymore.. I find it scary. Theyll be, like, You were over there in 1992, right? Because, if I say yes, hes caught a phony. I asked him how often these encounters happened, and he gave a rasping chuckle. This is awful. - Arsenal - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:04 pm: ==But the States Attorneys and District Attorneys across the nation/state who wont prosecute and let criminals walk arent?==. - Sir Reel - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:09 pm: And then a candidate takes a hard right on the way to the Republican primary. F. A debate about stolen valor has no upside for Sullivan, the best he can do with voters on this issue is fight it to a draw. But Schimpf, a former state senator, actually welcomed Sullivan into the fray, saying, another robust campaign spreading the message that J.B. Pritzker is undeserving of reelection is good news for the Illinois Republican Party.. Were on a mission from God. Be sure to wear a mask on public transportation. - Red Ranger - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:52 am: If youre explaining, youre losing. As soon as I watched that video of the debate, the Web sites administrator told me, I was, like, Lets FOIA both these guys.. There is a saying in the Theater, Will it play in Peoria?. They amass millions of views and are re-aired on Fox News and on the program Tosh.0. They tend to follow a standard template: the accuser confronts a suspicious stranger in uniform in a big-box store or a mall food court, barraging him (or, rarely, her) with questions about where and when he served. Foley was not on the list. People who lie about having served often seem less interested in money than in belonging to an esteemed group. Last February, YouTube suspended Shipleys channel for harassment. A 2012 profile of Sullivan in the State Journal-Register mentioned that his team, left the British military unit stationed in the area with recommendations for strengthening the local police force and reopening a school., When I questioned Sullivans campaign about this seeming rhetorical contradiction, they acknowledged that he was an Army civilian without veteran status who nevertheless led and participated in combat patrols in Afghanistan.. will run this same ad with different faces. Ill look around to see if its elsewhere. An agent at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service told me that most cases of stolen valor dont involve career criminals. I was born a protector and an overwatcher, he told a local television station. for political or campaign purposes to any candidate or political organization (10 ILCS 5/9-25.1(b)). - DuPage Dad - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:13 am: You know youre watching a Republican primary when you tout the Piatt County Sheriff as a feature of a television spot. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. People lie about their service in YouTube clips, Facebook posts, and text messages; researchers have exposed a man who claimed on a dating site to have been on the SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, and another who posted photographs of himself wearing a Green Beret uniform on his wedding day. (Dennehy served five years in the Marines, but never in Vietnam; he apologized after Burkett went public with his accusation.) Perhaps some joint training with CPD would help the CPD deal with these kinds of situations in the future. He has gone from being a joke to a dangerous joke. =And then also the kids in schools and keeping them out of school= (Phillips has claimed that he served during Vietnam times, but he was actually a reservist who never served in Vietnam; he also went AWOL a number of times.) - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:08 am: It always creeps me out when evangelicals go into to politics to save us. Saying he was called to protect and serve in this context implies that he is/was a police officer. After Bart buried her, he reviewed his security-camera footage to identify the culprit, then spent several nights perched in a tree with a pistol until he got his revenge. When a woman wrote to Sterner insisting that her husband be added to his Medal of Honor database, Cottone asked Sterner to pretend to believe her. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:21 am: ===This ad will play well in Peoria County and south.===. Pam Sterner overheard her husband and Cottone ranting about the current laws toothlessness. As someone who, you know, you began with the commercial being on the civilian intelligence side over in Afghanistan, you see the power of our military and their abilities. - Long Time Independent - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:43 am: Jesse should start running campaign commercials for a running mate and not worry about the Governors race yet. Is Irvin also this strongly opposed to pandemic mandates? Adding Welp, they removed the ad. He made one little mistake and look what happened. But when Shumways wife, Marcia, Googled Jowerss siblings, she discovered that they had died more than a decade after his military service. The Armys unclassified handbook on the Human Terrain Team says its leaders were active duty or retired military officers. he was a civilian contractor, never active duty, and not a veteran. In True Grit, and other novels, Portis displayed a genius that went beyond character in the strictly literary sense. They deserve a leader who has theirs. - Back to the Future - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:22 pm: The comments by Retired and Still in Illinois reinforces my thought that using the NG in chasing down violent offenders is not a very good idea. - Just Me 2 - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:24 am: What if my local school district actually cares about the health of the kids, their teachers, and their families (such as grandparents) and decided to require masks locally? Got it. Stolen Valor Valor Thieves' Gallery. Foleys opponent in the Republican primary was Rick Jowers, a mild, approachable sheriffs deputy with a handlebar mustache. Sullivan on governor's race: 'It's not about left vs right, this race - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:45 am: ===how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? Its very weird that Baileys home-grown true believers and Sullivans glitzy national consultants have both decided to let Irvin define the issues in this race. - Mcin33 - Wednesday, May 18, 22 @ 9:31 pm: My lord. He requested the records of a Green Beret who signed autographs for kids at parades: faker. - Pundent - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:31 am: From stolen valor to stolen ad. Thats why Republicans are fighting for the chance to finish second in the general election, and why 47ths proposed ad for Jesse is the right call. Then people started bringing up the comments that Jowers had made during a debate with Foley. We are back with Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. Id have to check the laws, but it certainly seems like Mr. Government Ethics is using local government resources for political purposes. If something strikes him as wrong, he feels obligated to fix it. In fact, he had served as a private in the Army, gone AWOL in Germany, and received an other than honorable discharge. - Ryan - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 12:16 pm: Campaigning in a publicly funded police car? As to unAmerican, chomping at the bit to use military force against American citizens is unAmerican. Shipley admits that he sometimes broke the platforms rules against releasing individuals personal information, but he contends that he was deplatformed for political reasons: he had been digging into the background of Nathan Phillips, a Native American veteran who appeared in a viral video with a student from Covington Catholic High School. Has anyone looked into Chief Deputy Rick Jowers past? someone asked on Facebook. I felt I was doing something really pretty dirtyleading this woman on to help her incriminate her husband so the F.B.I. 2023 Cond Nast. Operation Stolen Valor is a year-old federal law enforcement effort that has resulted in a dozen cases under investigation in the Pacific Northwest, with fraud totals of more than $1.4 million. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. There are real peoples lives behind these stats. A short list of Lt. Gov candidates will appear soon or has everyone said, Thanks for asking but no.. Sterner, who returned from Vietnam with two Bronze Stars, learned how to navigate the military-records system while compiling a database of people whod been given the Medal of Honor, the nations highest military award. Sullivan: Absolutely not. History has shown that doesnt work. Kinda awkward that his LG running mate hasnt commented yet. Veterans from across the state also published an open letter this morning, saying, Every veteran who served in combat served alongside Department of Defense civilians. Sounds to me like he needs to be a minister and not Governor. Illinois is a pro choice state. (It doesn't help, though that, even then, he would make the distinction to reporters that he was a "real Marine," like in a March 1981 Washington Evening Star . - Excitable Boy - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:28 pm: - commercial being on the civilian intelligence side over in Afghanistan, you see the power of our military and their abilities. northwest crackdown on fake veterans in "operation stolen valor" Phony Vets Scam more than $1.4 Million and Damage Image of Honorable Veterans U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Sullivan today announced some of the results of "Operation Stolen Valor," a year long effort to investigate and prosecute those who lie about their military service for financial gain or other reasons. Ask active military, civilian DoD, and a contractor when all three are sitting at the same table. (His best-sellers are not about war, however. - wowie - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:39 am: Jesse Sullivan campaign slogan: Hey, guys look at me - Im still here. Three weeks later, Military Phonies published the results of its investigation, concluding that Foley was indeed an Army veteran but that his career was much less lite than he had claimed. - WhiteHat24 - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:11 am: Is this not an ethics violation to use county vehicles and taxpayer resources out of your jurisdiction for political purposes? Military police state is just fine but a three inch piece of cloth to keep people alive s UnAmerican? Otherwise, he should correct the misleading language on his website.. This is such awful word salad. - The Fellow Edgar - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:48 am: What is Sullivan doing in this race exactly? A tall man with a square jaw and closely cropped hair, he touted his eleven years as a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment, an lite special-operations Army unit. The Court found that the Stolen Valor Act violated the First Amendment. Ask an ISP officer from downstate in a couple of months how they like being rotated in and out of Chicago. Monday, May 9, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * Background is here if you need it. When I think of the Guard I think of disaster response not vigilantism. I think theyre unAmerican. Burkett caught so many people distorting or inventing their military service that he wondered whether the dissemblers might be evidence of a national phenomenon, a weird ripple in the American psyche. By 1989, Burkett was averaging one FOIA request a day. His wife, Diane, a platinum-haired straight-talker, was a regular guest, as were the couples many dogs, ducks, and grandchildren. When Sterner learned of a fraudulent Medal of Honor claim, hed pass the information along to Cottone. Justwhat? could go in and take his medal, Sterner said. Bart is a deliberate man with a long, wiry beard. The liar inevitably starts calling him sir. I took lessons from Patton, Shipley said. You would call them out even to hunt down violent criminals. There was no evidence that he was an Airborne Ranger or a sniper, that he had received a Purple Heart or a Silver Star, or that he had been wounded in combat. If he wont stand with us, we cant allow him to be our next governor? - Henry Francis - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:07 am: I was not dismissing those 6 counties. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well. Documenting and debunking fakers has become easier as more of our lives have moved online. What he actually means: I think they are unRepublican.. Heres a refresher on all thats come out about the real Jesse Sullivan: He came out of the gate with a nasty stolen valor scandal. Why spend so much time defending Jesse and not attacking? Theyve got your back, but whos got your video? In Foleys public filings, he listed the neighboring house as his residence. Call this coward Richard Irvin, at (630) 555-1212, and demand him to be straight with Illinois Republicans.. The Sterners timing was fortuitous. Schimpf was born on an Air Force base in the Metro East, graduated from Annapolis Naval Academy, then graduated from law school and served 20 years in the US Marines, serving as the chief American adviser to prosecutors in Saddam Husseins trial. He struck me as sincere, Shumway said. - Roadrager - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:44 am: Oh, Jesse, I dont thing you want to try playing this one up against the big boys. I am concerned that he may not have received [the medals] but is implying that he has, she wrote. GOP Gubernatorial Candidate's Past Comes Back To Haunt Him - He Founded In 2015, Eric Lindinger, a Gulf War veteran, had a job that involved a lot of cross-country driving. Military Phonies gets more than a hundred thousand unique views on a good day, according to the Web sites administrator. Ill match any offer, do whatever it takes to get yer vote. (Alvarez had also falsely claimed to be a professional ice-hockey player and to have been married to a Mexican movie star.) - Manchester - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:04 pm: If anyone doubted it, its obvious Mr. Sullivan has drunk the far rights Kool-Aid. Conclusion: Be Careful. - Dotnonymous - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:18 pm: Jesse Sullivan declares American cities War Zones requiring National Guard soldiers to hunt down criminals. Bart and Amber Kendrick were taken aback. Sullivan was recruited to be in the Army's Human Terrain System, which. It doesnt make sense.. Jesse Sullivan: Yeah, absolutely. - JS Mill - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:17 pm: =I put the over/under for Sullivans vote percent at 15 for the primary election.=, =And it wont matter if they do, when you have folks like the Governor of Mississippi saying I dont know yet when it comes to potentially banning *contraceptives*.=. I am 100% Pro Life and I will be the strongest Pro Life governor in Illinois history. John Williams: You, on your website, use the National Guard a lot. -. Just before my visit, one of the familys cats was killed by a raccoon. Is it the every man for himself, arms-a-gettin, vigilante, frontier strain? Richard Irvin wont say where he stands on this issue. Cmon. ), Sterner had never intended to expose fakershe was more interested in the real heroesbut he kept running across them. Slaughter character or even Remus, frankly being a valor thief at his peak, when kayfabe was still strong, past a few mid-1980s Marines. He presented no ideas or solutions for the state of Illinois, which is more of the same for a campaign that seems to have no relationship whatsoever with the truth. I would give it a A, in that if is very focused on a key element of Republican Politics, and tugs at the hearts of the fearful. That would be a good question for a serious candidate. But, how much will that really matter? - Tobor - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:18 am: - Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:20 am: Also why is it that the GOP seems real excited to have armed troops showing up at peoples doors, so long as it is not in their neighborhood? Notes: Prospects Ed Howard, Alexander Canario and James Triantos take steps in their rehab. So I guess he could get rid of those. I just need help in finding out if he does indeed have these medals.. And then also the kids in schools and keeping them out of school, they put all the focus and energy on COVID. I said, Well, thats the Air Force design of the Medal of Honor. I dont like the man of faith being called to serve. He did his job good, got along with people good. Jowers had worked for the sheriffs office for eight years, five of them as chief deputy. GOP governor candidate Jesse Sullivan should stop digging holes hell eventually have to fill himself. - Steve Polite - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:00 pm: For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well.. Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com. He should take pause to consider how many civilians the United States killed in Afghanistan and now many civilians were detained, imprisoned, and even tortured without due process by the United States during our occupation of Afghanistan. I proudly served our nation in uniform doing counterinsurgency work in Helmand Afghanistan with the US Department of Defense, Sullivan declared in his campaign announcement speech near Petersburg. - Back to the Future - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:51 pm: The downside to being a woefully unprepared and woefully unqualified candidate- - -. Paid for by the Democratic Governors Association. Is it the all-arms-on-deck, save the ship, community health/resilience strain? - Huh? - Trolling Troll - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:30 am: Wasnt one Carhartt Billionaire enough for Illinois? Joey Gibson. The neophyte Sullivan has peppered his campaign website and announcement with photos of himself in military uniform. He added that he, like Foley, was an Airborne Ranger with combat wounds: I served my country, I took a bullet for my country. Even so, there were only a handful of people regularly investigating false military claims. The nearly seven-hundred-page book explored many of Burketts preoccupationsthat P.T.S.D. Robert Hayes . In December, Bart and his wife, Amber, read in the local paper that Leroy Foley, a police officer in the nearby town of Clyde, was running for sheriff of Callahan County. Hes losing. Theyre always loaded questions, Lindinger told me. Jowers told Shumway that hed left Germany when his father suffered a heart attack, and had been kept away by a series of tragedies: his mothers death in a car crash, his sisters suicide, his brothers death. While civilian contractors may be armed and act in defensive roles such as providing security, the use of contractors in contingency operations is specifically limited in DoD Instruction 3020.41 to support operations in a non-combat role. If Mr. Sullivan wants to claim unprecedented combat leadership experience as a civilian contractor, he should identify the officer that he directly reported to while in theater in order to verify this extraordinary assertion. Now, with just days to go, he's trying anything he can to grab voters' attention in a last-minute hail mary. And finally, I proudly served our nation in uniform doing counterinsurgency work in Helmand Afghanistan with the US Department of Defense. Often, if someone is not a paragon of traditional masculinityif you dont look like Bradley Cooper playing Chris Kyleyour claims are more suspect. (After the death of Kyle, the soldier whose story was the basis for American Sniper, the Intercept revealed that in his memoir he had awarded himself one more Silver Star and one more Bronze Star than he had earned.)
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