Documenting and debunking fakers has become easier as more of our lives have moved online. 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. You gotta be entertaining, you gotta be funny, he said. - Manchester - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:04 pm: If anyone doubted it, its obvious Mr. Sullivan has drunk the far rights Kool-Aid. - 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? Jowers withdrew from the race and resigned his job with the sheriffs department. Other than showing that 6 sheriffs from counties most Illinoisans have never heard of support him, dont know what the point of this commercial is. We are back with Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. 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. 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. - Google Is Your Friend - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:40 am: - Candy Dogood - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:43 am: The downside to being a woefully unprepared and woefully unqualified candidate for Governor of Illinois is that it doesnt take very long for the fascism to come out, but that is at least good for the voting public to learn about. (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 . It went big really kinda quick, he said. - LakeCo - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:24 pm: =Theyre hurting our children.= While Sterner and other early stolen-valor researchers worked largely behind the scenes, Shipleys videos were as much about his life as about the men he exposed. I note that several of the sheriffs do appear in street clothes, so maybe they checked it out and were warned beforehand. My guard unit was about half civilian police officers and the other half was largely college students using the guard to afford college (aged 18-21). Lets go save Illinois. Kristin Davison Returns to Illinois to Help Elect Jesse Sullivan It doesnt make sense.. After weeks of polling at third place, Sullivan this week released apolling memoshowing him tied in the lead with Bailey. Im from a rural county in central Illinois, and it is this kind of talk that makes rural Illinoisans dislike anything north of I-80. You always want to put a pretty young lady in a video if you can swing it. He started telephoning suspected liars, baiting them into telling ridiculous stories, and exposing them. We all know what that means, IRVIN LIE: [Sullivan] advocates and supports open borders. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:21 am: ===This ad will play well in Peoria County and south.===. Privacy Policy. Sullivan has managed to make a big splash in the Republican primary. But, how much will that really matter? Only five of them are still living, and hes not one of them, so this guys a phony. And he stuck his hand out and said, Glad to meet you, Im Tom Cottone with the F.B.I. And that started our friendship.. If you bought season tickets to see a team and thought that the team would make your dreams come true because of your investment or that the players would be there forever, sorry. Currently she is working to get Glenn Youngkin elected the next governor of Virginia this November, as well as with a number of stellar 2022 Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, governor, and U.S. Congress. Press release. Illinois needs a new Director at DCFS. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:00 pm: Wasnt Sullivan a contractor, not a DoD civilian? They would send them harassing e-mails, or theyd get a phone number and post that up on YouTube, and people would be calling it really late.. *** UPDATE *** Another Sullivan press release. Military Phonies gets more than a hundred thousand unique views on a good day, according to the Web sites administrator. Join the priesthood, or start a church if youre a person of deep faith, just dont push your faith on me and tell me its to save me. Theyre hurting our children. - Retired and Still in Illinois - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:48 am: The idea of using the NG in this manner is ludicrous. - vern - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:51 am: At this point hes gonna need the National Guard to get his petitions done. America's top infectious-disease expert discusses how governments can respond to save lives in pandemics. Between Sullivan's mission in Iraq and Irvin's calling in the Guard, the stolen valor primary is officially underway. I cant answer why somebody would do those types of things. - Roadrager - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:12 am: - New Day - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:14 am: Oh my. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2006, [1] was a U.S. law that broadened the provisions of previous U.S. law addressing the unauthorized wear, manufacture, or sale of any military decorations and medals. Saying he was called to protect and serve in this context implies that he is/was a police officer. - Ron Burgundy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:22 pm: In a primary, and specifically your first run for anything, you need to be telling people who you are and not refuting who someone else says you are. Joey Gibson. - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:35 am: He is against it and would likely go Missouri on us. According to DOD records, Sullivan was a Human Terrain Analyst under US Army TRADOC G2, who led. 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. - 47th Ward - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:41 pm: ===an attack like this from an opponent with the credentials to make it.===. Jesse Sullivan: Yeah, absolutely. Operation Stolen Valor | Northeastshooters.com Forums When I think of the Guard I think of disaster response not vigilantism. Monday, May 9, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * Background is here if you need it. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:14 am: Its again pinging the stolen valor want, someone who has this idea hes been called to protect and serve, when in actuality a commercial with a highlighting a candidate at night with police vehicles, Sullivan should run for sheriff somewhere or ask Bailey, Irvin, Rabine, or Schimpf to appoint him director of ISP. On September 7, 2006, the act, which made it a federal crime to falsely claim receipt of a military award or decoration, passed in the Senate by unanimous consent; President GeorgeW. Bush signed it into law soon afterward. There were other guys doing this before me, but Im the guy that took it to YouTube, he told me. Might be time to concentrate on getting a running mate. No public funds shall be used to urge any elector to vote for or against any candidate or proposition, or be appropriated When I joined the military decades ago, I was required to get a regimen of vaccines, more when deploying overseas. Grabbing popcorn, this might be fun to watch (hey, I didnt cause it). - Grandson of Man - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:48 pm: Sullivan is throwing down a strong marker for other GOP candidates. I was dismissing how persuasive it is to cite them in trying to move the needle state wide. He set up Google news alerts for key phrases: prisoner of war, Navy Cross. I started coming across these guys putting themselves in local media as heroes, Caffrey told me. Justwhat? The phrase originated with B. G. (Jug) Burkett, a Texas stockbroker and a Vietnam veteran, whose attempts, in the nineteen-eighties, to raise funds for a memorial to Vietnam veterans from Texas were made difficult, he wrote, by the stereotype that soldiers who returned from the war were losers, bums, drug addicts, drunks, derelictssocietal offal who had come back from the war plagued by nightmares and flashbacks that left them with the potential to go berserk at any moment. In 1988, Burkett read a story in the Dallas Times Herald about Carl Dudley Williams, a homeless man who had shot and killed a police officer. (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.). Sullivan was recruited to be in the Army's Human Terrain System, which. Jowers released a statement, apologizing for misleading the community and claiming that he had distorted his record because he had been upset and angry at a certain personpresumably Foley. Fake veteran gets 5-month sentence - seattlepi.com But, six years later, in United States v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Xavier Alvarez, a water-district official in Southern California, who had been convicted of lying about receiving the Medal of Honor. Got it. He wrote that an official at the National Archives told him that he was probably the Archives number one individual FOIA user.. Most stolen-valor cases dont involve master criminals but, rather, average men who want to be treated as if they were extraordinary. Elsewhere in the news . Ive asked the campaign about the use of law enforcement vehicles in the campaign ad. I am 100% Pro Life and I will be the strongest Pro Life governor in Illinois history. 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. I think Id prefer he just yada, yada, yada me and tell me he likes the lobster bisque. The work sometimes made him uncomfortable. John Williams: You, on your website, use the National Guard a lot. - Politix - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:04 pm: Always fun to hear overprivileged white men from downstate rattle on about violence prevention. Then people started bringing up the comments that Jowers had made during a debate with Foley. Burkett began FOIA-ing with abandon. Sullivan denies charges of signature fraud on primary petitions ===. On day one, I would end those. - Anyone Remember - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:32 am: ===You would call them out even to hunt down violent criminals. Jesse talks about Donald Trump's speech to Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, where he veered off into bizarre territory when he announced that he tr. Hes trying everything to bury the baggage thats exposed serious contradictions about his past and his record,said DGA Illinois Press Secretary Yael Sheinfeld. It's again pinging the stolen valor want, someone who has this idea he's been "called" to protect and serve, when in actuality a commercial with a highlighting a candidate "at night" with. Throwing the guard at addressing violent crime is a recipe for disaster (recall Kent State). Nobody's talking about the Sgt. As soon as I watched that video of the debate, the Web sites administrator told me, I was, like, Lets FOIA both these guys.. Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar Rate Jesse Sullivan's He was just a good old country boy who wanted to help you. Also, comparing soldier combat deaths to civilian murder deaths is not even apples to oranges. Stolen Valor : This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here Last February, YouTube suspended Shipleys channel for harassment. Schimpf was initially reluctant to say anything about Sullivan, but eventually issued this response: Although Jesse Sullivan, who is not a veteran and has never been on active duty, should be commended for having worked in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, his claim to have led combat patrols flies in the face of Department of Defense regulations and established practices. On his campaign Facebook page, he displayed his medals: a Silver Star, for valor in combat, and a Purple Heart. And which side best fits the need for human sacrifice. In reality, hes an honorably discharged military veteran, Robert Dalton, the Clyde police chief, told me. He looked into the Navy SEAL and the Green Beret who operated San Antonios Vietnam War Museum: both liars, although each thought that the other was legit. So far, GOP gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan has failed to break through the noise, drowned out by MAGA candidate Darren Bailey and flailing one-time frontrunner Richard Irvin. Stolen Valor Act of 2005 - Wikipedia GOP governor candidate Jesse Sullivan should stop digging holes he'll Sounds to me like he needs to be a minister and not Governor. There is a saying in the Theater, Will it play in Peoria?. - 47th Ward - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:15 pm: Last bit of free advice for Sully. - Red Ketcher - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:34 am: 1969 Ft. 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*. Veterans of the Second World War placed themselves at the sites of iconic battles, even when they were stationed far away. On day one, I would end those. He requested the records of a Green Beret who signed autographs for kids at parades: faker. He lied till the end, Shumway said. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:24 pm: That would be a far better use of resources and messaging, but egos and this needed want to steal valor to gun up I dont know its poor by a campaign and its crew that makes this whole thing performance art for cryptocurrency. He was a darn good deputy, Terry Joy, who had been the sheriff of Callahan County since 2013, told me. Its a really bad habit and Ive seen it fatally backfire more than once. - Proud Sucker - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:11 am: Not sure it directly applies to Sheriffs who are elected. In fact, according to the Civil War historian William Marvel, every one of the last dozen recognized Confederates was bogus. But its only recently that lying about military service has been considered a particularly heinous form of lying, one with its own name: stolen valor. People in positions of trust use military credentials to bolster their authority; pastors, sheriffs, and politicians are regularly featured on stolen-valor Web sites. The Silicon Valley angle took hold in segments of the mainstream media. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:08 am: It always creeps me out when evangelicals go into to politics to save us. Robert Hayes . - Dotnonymous - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:18 pm: Jesse Sullivan declares American cities War Zones requiring National Guard soldiers to hunt down criminals. He should find a career where they can be put to use. Stolen Valor Valor Thieves' Gallery. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:16 am: We dont have a vaccine mandate in Illinois so theres nothing there for him to end. Adding Sullivans consultant firm worked for Glenn Youngkins gubernatorial campaign and they ran a very similar TV ad during that race. When a liars story starts to spin wildly out of control, Shipley cocks an eyebrow. D. - here we go - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:09 am: Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. - Frank talks - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 5:02 pm: Jesse should stop talking and get a running mate. 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.. 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. This is just so goofythe real winner out of all this is JB Pritzker. What exactly does JB have to. /s. 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 Absolutely. Adding Check out the front license plate on the car on the far left. 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. Griffin should just buy another penthouse. People who lie about having served often seem less interested in money than in belonging to an esteemed group. Military Phonies was already looking into Jowerss background. The memo was produced by afirm founded bythe same consulting group working for Sullivans campaign and that late leadhasnt been confirmedby any other polling. The neophyte Sullivan has peppered his campaign website and announcement with photos of himself in military uniform. - Arsenal - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:41 am: D. Dont continue to talk about your opponents attack. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Seems to be a LOT of wrong-headed thinking in politics these days. Umm, Jesse, I hate to be the one to tell you but we lost in Afghanistan. Is the New York I used to know gone for good? Sad to see the crazies are out in force- again, still.. - Gdubya - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:29 pm: Williams: Do you support the mask mandates and the vaccine mandates? This is such awful word salad. "I felt I was doing something really pretty . In fact, he had served as a private in the Army, gone AWOL in Germany, and received an other than honorable discharge. I am not a veteran. If the blackout lasts into the regular season, Comcast subscribers also wouldnt have access to NFL Red Zone. . 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. 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. Im lethal with a keyboardyou cant lie to me, he has said. - vole - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:27 pm: unAmerican is getting to need some definition. I dont want anyone near any levers of power who refuses to protect their citizens during a pandemic. If he wont stand with us, we cant allow him to be our next governor? They probably say it was posted as a CapFax rate the ad. We look at what they post on the Internet, who theyre talking to, what theyre saying, the Web sites administrator told me. Breaking Radical - Conservative Intelligence Briefing | Facebook McMaster, US Army (ret.) The True History of Sgt. Slaughter's Stolen Valor - MEL Magazine - Huh? The guy would usually be polite, but the interactions felt more like interrogations than like conversations. Adding The final version of the TV spot is here. - girl in the woods - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:06 pm: This is a crazy word salad- sounds like Trumps speeches. At least Sullie is talkin as opposed to Team Riffie & RichieRich. But Sullivan should probably stop digging holes that hell eventually have to fill himself. ==. - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:48 pm: To seal the stolen valor/pro military bonafides, we need some icing on the cake, Sullivan riding in an M1 Abrams tank, ala Michael Dukakis, October 1988. Just before my visit, one of the familys cats was killed by a raccoon. - 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?==. Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Schimpf has mostly followed Ronald Reagans 11th Commandment and avoided speaking ill of his Republican opponents. Accompanying that trust was mounting anxiety that it could be abused. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was a federal law that criminalized false statements about having a military medal. - Fayette County - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:20 am: The ad will play well in this part of Illinois but Bailey has a lot of support locked up already around here. 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. - Back to the Future - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:51 pm: The downside to being a woefully unprepared and woefully unqualified candidate- - -. /s. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:45 am: If Sullivan wanted to serve, he shouldve joined a branch of service. - Paddyrollingstone - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:09 pm: Getting some Jack! 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. His wife, Diane, a platinum-haired straight-talker, was a regular guest, as were the couples many dogs, ducks, and grandchildren. If you cant answer Did you serve? Doesnt seem legal to me. James Blanton (no photo) Anthony Colombo. And they serve honorablyIrvins ad contains multiple falsehoods, most notably the dismissive comment that Jesse was a social worker. Irvins shameful use of veterans to dismiss this form of public service is a disgrace., Major Monte Montes, US Army (ret.) So what sets these two apart on crime? Con men posing as military heroes trade on the respect and deference granted to veterans, using claims of service to win investors confidence, receive veterans benefits, or secure government contracts. I think theyre unAmerican. Bart is a deliberate man with a long, wiry beard. If she ties herself to this fascism, I was incredibly wrong. Hes been surprised by how many older women watch, too. 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. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. When Sterner learned of a fraudulent Medal of Honor claim, hed pass the information along to Cottone. But not in defense of Sullivans specious claims about his own record. With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq came a surge in young men who said that they were lite commandos; in the weeks after the raid that killed bin Laden, phony SEAL claims doubled, according to one researcher.
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