- Chambananon - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:42 am: State law prohibits State employees from using State resources for political purposes. Im respectful, like all military people are. Jowers seemed thrown by his opponents tough-guy posturing, and offered a different vision for law enforcement in the county. Foley promised to professionalize the sheriffs department. 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. At the time, wearing an unearned military medal was against the law, but there was no particular consideration given to lies about military service; the same chapter of the federal statute also made it illegal to proffer a fake police badge, pretend to be a member of 4-H, or misuse the likeness of Smokey Bear. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. Is Irvin also this strongly opposed to pandemic mandates? Is it the every man for himself, arms-a-gettin, vigilante, frontier strain? America's top infectious-disease expert discusses how governments can respond to save lives in pandemics. No other GOP candidates were mentioned. The Irvin lies/cant be trusted line could work, if he had about $10-$15 million to burn it home, although that would likely just benefit Bailey. Adding The final version of the TV spot is here. These days, subscribers pay ten dollars a month for access to the Shipleys video library, along with regular live streams, Dianes recipes for Big Ass Meatballs and ass kickin cornbread, and Dons duck-hunting tips. Might be time to concentrate on getting a running mate. - Da big bad wolf - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:42 am: If police who are trained have trouble finding the criminals how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? However, they are answerable to their constituents. It was a venting session that at times became very loud, earnest, and hard to ignore, Sterner wrote in Restoring Valor: One Couples Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and Protect Americas Military Awards System. His vehemence at first irritated Pam, who had gone back to school to study political science and had an assignment due the next day; then it inspired her. I was born a protector and an overwatcher, he told a local television station. - Proud Papa Bear - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:17 am: C. Its hard to spice up bland. . Jowers withdrew from the race and resigned his job with the sheriffs department. Got it. At least Sullie is talkin as opposed to Team Riffie & RichieRich. What? This pro-law enforcement ad might not be so, um, pro-legal. The Facebook page for the Clyde Police Department was soon flooded with comments from angry people across the country: Hey Clyde PD, you have a POS Poser in your midst; Leroy Grant Foley those brand new cuff links will look good on you. Foley was placed on administrative leave. The nearly seven-hundred-page book explored many of Burketts preoccupationsthat P.T.S.D. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Seems to be a LOT of wrong-headed thinking in politics these days. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:00 pm: Wasnt Sullivan a contractor, not a DoD civilian? It has since been revealed that during his time as a student at St. Louis University back in 2006, he founded the magazine One World. . Ill match any offer, do whatever it takes to get yer vote. Sullivan: Absolutely not. The activity has become a type of bonding exercise for former service members; some even seem to be reliving their war experience when hunting down phonies. - Norseman - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:54 pm: The National Guard is so omnipotent to these far right and far right wannabes for power politicians. I find it scary. 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. The first one claimed he served in the unit from Band of Brothers and also stormed the beach at Normandyit just didnt make any sense.. - 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. Through games of Sunday, scoring is up when compared to March and April of 2022. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:45 am: ===how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? The interviews present a satisfying moral clarity: Shipley, a broad, deep-voiced man with lush hair, plays the role of the good soldier, confidently asserting his dominance over the dissembling faker. - Rudys teeth - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:35 pm: Since Jesse spent time in Afghanistan, he should have no problem riding the Red Line from 95th Street to Rogers Park to meet and greet the voters. The yard was weedy; the windows were covered with aluminum foil. 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. When I joined the military decades ago, I was required to get a regimen of vaccines, more when deploying overseas. When the Culture Wars Come for the Public Library. In fact, he had served as a private in the Army, gone AWOL in Germany, and received an other than honorable discharge. There is good reason to believe that a similar fate would befall other false claimants.. The Sterners timing was fortuitous. He kept having odd interactions with strangers. Researching potential phonies was once a lonely enterprise; now there are a dozen Web sites, message boards, and Facebook groups that provide instruction and crowdsource the work. Nice Irish ballot name, good hair and a nice jawline. But the States Attorneys and District Attorneys across the nation/state who wont prosecute and let criminals walk arent?? - SWSider - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:21 pm: Lol. 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. I think Id prefer he just yada, yada, yada me and tell me he likes the lobster bisque. Also, ibid on the whole ethics of cops play-acting in uniform in a political ad. The lies that people tell shift with the appetites of the era. - Arsenal - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:06 am: ==Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. Msg&Data rates may apply. 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. The average game times of 2 hours, 36 minutes are down from 3:03 in 2022. 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. This is awful. - Steve Rogers - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:20 am: When it takes 200 words to say something you could say in 20 words, you really have a communication problem. They probably say it was posted as a CapFax rate the ad. In reality, hes an honorably discharged military veteran, Robert Dalton, the Clyde police chief, told me. There once was a MP battalion in Chicago (right behind Watertower. They served their country, now they have to get a normal job, maybe they have P.T.S.D., maybe theyre not getting help from the V.A. but were not going to try to run our sheriffs department like the military., Around Christmas, Bart Kendrick went public on Facebook with his accusation about Foleys residency, sure that it would tank his candidacy. History has shown that doesnt work. Ask active military, civilian DoD, and a contractor when all three are sitting at the same table. More than a quarter of Pontiac's inmates are seriously mentally ill, Mississippi River flooding continues in Northwest Illinois, Pritzker says he doesn't expect major movement on Mayor-elect Johnson's tax ideas, *** UPDATED x1 *** Elections have consequences, *** UPDATED x1 *** Full Danville City Council votes Tuesday on ordinance to outlaw abortion medication, instruments. To me, the long-winded explanation looked more like Sullivan had led a small group of advisers alongside soldiers in combat areas than actually leading what most would consider combat patrols. That still took courage, so why embellish it? Hes losing. You would call them out even to hunt down violent criminals. - Arsenal - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:41 am: D. Dont continue to talk about your opponents attack. In the morning, a pickup truck was parked in front of the garage. He prides himself on being atrue conservativeand apolitical outsider,but hispast work for a Democratic candidateand aleaked photoof him wearing an Obama shirt years ago tells a different story. Ill say anything to get yer vote. When a relative unknown named Jesse Sullivan jumped into the race earlier this month with a nearly $11 million out-of-state-funded campaign war chest, state Sen. Darren Bailey and businessperson Gary Rabine both called him a member of the San Francisco/Silicon Valley "elite" because that's where his business was located and where much of his When he shared his anxieties, Cottone told him that, if a person was lying about his service, he was often lying about more substantial things, too. I have dishonored all veterans. Typically, though, punishment is meted out online. He struck me as sincere, Shumway said. 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. Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right. Albert Brum. Are they going to try to out right wing each other because they have tothese former Democratic voters/supportersto win todays GOP base? Bob Ford, a former marine in his seventies, was harassed in front of a crowd by two men who were suspicious because his belt buckle appeared too ornate for his rank. Ask an ISP officer from downstate in a couple of months how they like being rotated in and out of Chicago. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:21 am: ===This ad will play well in Peoria County and south.===. Its mandatory. 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. Notes: Prospects Ed Howard, Alexander Canario and James Triantos take steps in their rehab. Its like cancelling someone onlineyou cant fix the bigger problem, so you just attack this stranger., Shipley partly blames himself for seeding these confrontations. Is it the all-arms-on-deck, save the ship, community health/resilience strain? - The Dude Abides - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:32 pm: @47th Ward The Pro Life message will help him in the Primary but hurt him in the Federal should he secure the nomination. Be sure to wear a mask on public transportation. You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. - Pundent - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:56 am: Wouldnt the first step be a fundamental shift in the Guards focus and training? - Arsenal - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:49 am: I gotta admit I find this guy interesting, but until he can actually put his petitions on the street, I feel like I should ignore him. Grabbing popcorn, this might be fun to watch (hey, I didnt cause it). - City Guy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 12:16 pm: F for the potential fall out. Its astonishing to me that the Republican Party as a whole really is not concerned about peoples health and that they might be killing people with their anti-vax, anit-mask stance. It is courageous to serve in combat environments, in any capacity. Umm, Jesse, I hate to be the one to tell you but we lost in Afghanistan. Military police state is just fine but a three inch piece of cloth to keep people alive s UnAmerican? After Leroy Foleys lies about his military service were exposed, Rick Jowers seemed certain to win the Republican primary and therefore become Callahan Countys next sheriff, since no one was running as a Democrat. - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:35 am: He is against it and would likely go Missouri on us. And you look at the corrupt war zone that we have, a thousand murders in Cook County? All rights reserved. People falsely claiming to have served in Vietnam often used the war to explain some failure or trauma in their personal livestheir homelessness or their struggles with addiction. Welp, if youre pulling it, thats not playing anywhere? (On StolenValor.com, exposed liars are secured targets.) In a forum called Special Forces Brothers, which is associated with Guardians of the Green Beret, fifty-seven hundred current and former Green Berets help vet claimants. No money down, no payments until next year. That is a crisis that is 750, was the most lives we lost of our soldiers over in Afghanistan was the worst year of the war over there. Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. - The Dude Abides - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:07 pm: As a previous poster mentioned in his comment its red meat for the GOP base. Lets go save Illinois. When a relative unknown named Jesse Sullivan jumped into the race earlier this month with a nearly $11 million out-of-state-funded campaign war chest, state Sen. Darren Bailey and businessperson Gary Rabine both called him a member of the San Francisco/Silicon Valley elite because thats where his business was located and where much of his campaign money came from. - Steve Polite - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:00 pm: For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well.. So, I asked, how could Sullivan have led combat patrols? Elsewhere in the news . It almost reinforces what the actual veterans say in Irvins ad. I hear youre something of a Medal of Honor historian, he said. Fire up the bluesmobile, Jake. Allegations that gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan's petitions contain hundreds of fake signatures are untrue and a "political stunt" by McHenry County businessman and Republican rival. =And then also the kids in schools and keeping them out of school= The 37-year-old Sullivan who made himself an instant contender in the four-man GOP gubernatorial primary with a $10.8 million campaign fund fueled by out-of-state donors said that's . The only vaccine mandate still in effect anywhere that was initiated by the government is the mandate for healthcare workers and that mandate was upheld by the Supreme Court. Shipley is one of the most prominent figures in the field, the closest thing it has to an influencer. 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. We have to do something and have urgency. Jim Calhoun. Because I think most peoples first instinct is that calling into question someones service is rather icky. 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. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. One evening, she mentioned Foleys military medals to her father, a retired colonel in the Air Force. That began to change in 2004, after an Arizona man was featured in a local newspaper as a highly decorated veteran who had, among other improbable exploits, assisted in the capture of Saddam Hussein. 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. - Big Mike - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:02 am: - Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:05 am: Im a white person in my mid 60s and I dont 2ant to see cops in political ads. And, for sure, this military combat claim needs to be cleared up right away. Open the bag the first one out would be the candidate would save a lot of money not to mention popcorn. There is a saying in the Theater, Will it play in Peoria?. The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis. - 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. Can you identify this man for me? Sterner peered at the image. - Lincoln Lad - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:05 pm: The GOP pool of candidates will make this easy for JB. A few of Military Phonies half-dozen volunteer researchers are registered private investigators, which allows them access to specialized databases. Republican candidate for governor Jesse Sullivan stands in a soybean field and points to his home in Petersburg, Illinois, in a campaign video. Mr. Sullivans words are those of a person who fundamentally does not understand democratic governments and basic civil rights. If a candidate hedges, theyll lose evangelicals and a bunch more of the base and ultimately lose. Meh. Shipley tried to keep things more or less professional, but his fans could be less scrupulous. I think theyre unAmerican. Within a few days, Foley resigned. ==. This ad, tho, this ad is definitely better than the Irvin ad, if only because it actually does capture your attention. Someone you could actually call and feel comfortable about it, said Marcia Shumway, a local stay-at-home mom and home-school teacher, who, with her husband, Paul, supported Jowers in the race. I said, Well, thats the Air Force design of the Medal of Honor. Like I said before, theres no need to embellish this stuff. I mean when PQ won his election, didnt he lose just about all the states counties (except for a couple)? was an overdiagnosed condition cooked up by antiwar leftists; that accusations of war crimes in Vietnam were overstatedbut what captured readers attention was his exposure of military fakers. Ad Choices. Has anyone looked into Chief Deputy Rick Jowers past? someone asked on Facebook. - Henry Francis - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:07 am: I was not dismissing those 6 counties. 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. - 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*.=. (Other patterns Shipley has noticed: there is a disproportionate number of phonies in Georgia, liars tend to be junior enlisted men, and stolen valor is primarily a white problem.). I have entire National Guard units that spend their weekends watching my videos on a big screen in an auditorium, seeing what Don is doing, Shipley said. Then people started bringing up the comments that Jowers had made during a debate with Foley. - 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? That just adds to his pro-COVID views though. Congress passed an amended statute, which made it illegal to fraudulently wear medals, embellish rank, or make false claims of service in order to obtain money or some other tangible benefit, making stolen valor an issue of fraud rather than of speech. He said he served in Afghanistan. The only winner in this ad is the media folks making cash off of Sullivan. Shipley studied how to make a video go viral. Or maybe hes doing the rounds so he can drop a quick poll to show potential LTs he has a chance and some name ID? As to unAmerican, chomping at the bit to use military force against American citizens is unAmerican. Even the man of faith bit seemed forced. He often points to his business background as an example of his leadership, but one of his nonprofits owed money to the state of California and another waslisted as delinquent., And those are just the highlights.With days to go, Jesse Sullivan is bending over backwards to rewrite history. 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. - well - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:48 am: Its a decent message for the primary, but it loses a lot of points because of how illegal the ad is. Tuesday, Mar 29, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * The spot begins with county sheriffs complaining about anti-police rhetoric, career politicians, etc. Sullivan is woefully unqualified to be Governor. - vole - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:27 pm: unAmerican is getting to need some definition. "I felt I was doing something really pretty . 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.) Privacy Policy. Call this coward Richard Irvin, at (630) 555-1212, and demand him to be straight with Illinois Republicans.. As soon as I watched that video of the debate, the Web sites administrator told me, I was, like, Lets FOIA both these guys.. Jesse Sullivan was an Army civilian, deployed by the Department of Defense to Afghanistan. With the US Supreme Court about to finally rule against abortion, Illinois voters need to know where their politicians stand on the most important issue of our lives. - 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? Republicans are the pro-life party. 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.
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