Stolen Valor Act of 2005 - Wikipedia This ad will play well in Peoria County and south. Then people started bringing up the comments that Jowers had made during a debate with Foley. And you look at the corrupt war zone that we have, a thousand murders in Cook County? 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. - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:35 am: He is against it and would likely go Missouri on us. Vaccines have been required for schools, the military, and some employers for a long time. 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. This is such awful word salad. Shipley studied how to make a video go viral. A Montana countys battle shows how faith in public learning and public space is fraying. - 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. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:21 am: ===This ad will play well in Peoria County and south.===. If a candidate hedges, theyll lose evangelicals and a bunch more of the base and ultimately lose. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. As to unAmerican, chomping at the bit to use military force against American citizens is unAmerican. Why spend so much time defending Jesse and not attacking? The Sullivan campaign released a new ad, featuring veterans voicing their disgust with the shameful political attack that is riddled with falsehoods. So, calling out the National Guard means diminishing police forces in the members own communities. 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.. - Friendly Bob Adams - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:26 pm: I put the over/under for Sullivans vote percent at 15 for the primary election. Military Phonies was already looking into Jowerss background. But the States Attorneys and District Attorneys across the nation/state who wont prosecute and let criminals walk arent?? Not even sure they have any training for that sort of mission. Perhaps some joint training with CPD would help the CPD deal with these kinds of situations in the future. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:45 am: If Sullivan wanted to serve, he shouldve joined a branch of service. She got an A. - Huh? Meh. 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? Txt HELP for help, STOP to end. And he said, There are places out there that will research things like this., On January 13th, Amber filled out a form on Military Phonies, one of a number of Web sites dedicated to exposing people who invent or inflate their military service. Throwing the guard at addressing violent crime is a recipe for disaster (recall Kent State). Ryan vibes from this guy. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. Is it the all-arms-on-deck, save the ship, community health/resilience strain? - 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. Joey Gibson. (Alvarez had also falsely claimed to be a professional ice-hockey player and to have been married to a Mexican movie star.) In True Grit, and other novels, Portis displayed a genius that went beyond character in the strictly literary sense. - girl in the woods - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:06 pm: This is a crazy word salad- sounds like Trumps speeches. /s. Tuesday, Mar 29, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * The spot begins with county sheriffs complaining about anti-police rhetoric, career politicians, etc. The day Illinois voters quit voting for partys like your rooting for a baseball team is the day we will see true equality and economic growth. And finally, I proudly served our nation in uniform doing counterinsurgency work in Helmand Afghanistan with the US Department of Defense. Kinda awkward that his LG running mate hasnt commented yet. - 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? Sounds to me like he needs to be a minister and not Governor. Last February, YouTube suspended Shipleys channel for harassment. John Williams: You, on your website, use the National Guard a lot. Sullivan denies charges of signature fraud on primary petitions If you want to keep peoples attention, you start cursing., When the phone calls became routine, he and Diane travelled to a half-dozen states, sometimes staking out phonies houses and confronting them on camera. One evening, she mentioned Foleys military medals to her father, a retired colonel in the Air Force. - Back to the Future - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:51 pm: The downside to being a woefully unprepared and woefully unqualified candidate- - -. 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. 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. - 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? And which side best fits the need for human sacrifice. The better move would be to change the subject. You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. Im Jesse Sullivan. Is the New York I used to know gone for good? - 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. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:18 am: Correction - We do have mandates for certain state workers in congregate care settings. 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.. Stolen Valor : This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here - 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. The law made it a federal misdemeanor to falsely represent oneself as having received . So I guess he could get rid of those. Sullivan has managed to make a big splash in the Republican primary. The Silicon Valley angle took hold in segments of the mainstream media. The hard part, Shipley said, is that nobody believes anybody anymore.. LOL. In reality, hes an honorably discharged military veteran, Robert Dalton, the Clyde police chief, told me. I stand proudly with Pro Life voters. D. - here we go - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:09 am: Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. Very good ad for stoking GOP base obsession with police and crime. Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar Rate Jesse Sullivan's new United States v. Alvarez - Wikipedia To Bart, it seemed obvious that Foley didnt live there but was merely using it as a place to switch out his vehicle after work. Im lethal with a keyboardyou cant lie to me, he has said. Ask active military, civilian DoD, and a contractor when all three are sitting at the same table. There once was a MP battalion in Chicago (right behind Watertower. Once the lie was made public, he was ridiculed online, he wrote. Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. Veterans of the Second World War placed themselves at the sites of iconic battles, even when they were stationed far away. 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. *** UPDATED x1 *** Rate Jesse Sullivans response ad to Richard Irvins attack spot, Multiple dead, more than 30 hospitalized after blowing dust leads to accidents on I-55. On day one, I would end those. That sure looks like an official police plate to me. 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. But not in defense of Sullivans specious claims about his own record. Sorry. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Jesse Sullivan was running a non-profit in San Francisco, California before he threw his hat into the Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary back in September. - Mama - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 6:28 pm: - Zoomer - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 9:35 pm: Yet another beacon of optimism and open-mindedness shining his wisdom as a light upon us all. USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - WAW - United States Department of Justice For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well. Since Shipley started his channel, confrontations between service members and potential impostors have become wildly popular on YouTube. 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. 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. Griffin should just buy another penthouse. ), Sterner had never intended to expose fakershe was more interested in the real heroesbut he kept running across them. 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. Well do a FOIA, and were very specific about the information we ask forwhat units they may have been in, what awards they couldve had, the time they served, what their discharge rank was, and their combat history., Ed Caffrey began following stolen-valor Web sites when he was on active duty in the Air Force. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. He should find a career where they can be put to use. - The Fellow Edgar - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:48 am: What is Sullivan doing in this race exactly? 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. No, you use the resources at your disposal to save peoples lives. Either promote yourself up or attack the leading candidate to drive him down. Adding The final version of the TV spot is here. I hear youre something of a Medal of Honor historian, he said. When the Culture Wars Come for the Public Library. I briefly embedded with some in Iraq. It included two potentially positive statements about an unknown candidate to test their appeal, then revealed that they were both about Jesse Sullivan. Cyril Pelkey. - 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. 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. underscored the importance of DOD civilians to the overall effort, saying, Civilians who volunteered to serve at the front in Afghanistan were critical to protecting our nation from jihadist terrorists who use mass murder as their principal tactic in a war against all civilized people. Well, prosecutors discretion is an age-old tradition, and frankly quite a bit of the Bill of Rights is aimed at limiting the states ability to jail its citizens, so despite the LOL and double question marks, Id suggest that the answer to your question isnt quite as clear cut as you think. 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. When I think of the Guard I think of disaster response not vigilantism. When Walter Washington Williams, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the Confederate Army, died, in 1959, President Eisenhower called for a national day of mourning. I am not a veteran. Hes trying everything to bury the baggage thats exposed serious contradictions about his past and his record,said DGA Illinois Press Secretary Yael Sheinfeld. Instead, the campaign claimed, Sullivan led a small team consisting usually of another human terrain analyst, possibly a social scientist depending on the mission, and an interpreter, which would, embed with a military unit. Sullivan, was responsible for translating military objectives into collection priorities, executing the collection mission, reporting back, and advising the military decision-making process.. Hes, like, I screwed up, I told a little lie and it got big, Shumway, a veteran of the Air Force, said. He requested the records of a Green Beret who signed autographs for kids at parades: faker. Dude, you should have spent some of that early money on message and media training. Im no fan of Sullivan, or any of the Rs running, but theres no need to be dismissive. Im not cop-trained, Im military-trained, he said, during a debate in Cross Plains, in January. Even so, there were only a handful of people regularly investigating false military claims. Marc Feldman, a psychiatrist who specializes in factitious disorder, a diagnosis that is given primarily to women who feign or produce illness or injury for emotional gratification, sees stolen valor as a less-studied offshoot of the same syndrome. Military Phonies gets more than a hundred thousand unique views on a good day, according to the Web sites administrator. Foleys apparent lie about his residence offended Bart. I think he just got caught up in the moment, Sheriff Joy said. He photographed the trash can by the road to show that its contents never changed. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, written in part by Pam Sterner, was introduced the year that millions of filmgoers watched Wedding Crashers, in which Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilsons characters lie about being Purple Heart recipients. Fake veteran gets 5-month sentence - seattlepi.com These are just as good as, if not better than, jelly beans., Dear Deborah, Ive lost my phone and we need to talk., Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, Restoring Valor: One Couples Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and Protect Americas Military Awards System. - Red Ketcher - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:56 am: 47th Ward at 10:08 above Says It All,Says it Well. - Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:17 am: Thanks bros, but I dont need to be saved especially by someone of Jesse Sullivans ilk. Traditionally many are local and state cops in their day jobs so Sullies deployment takes real cops off their street to do his manhunt. What Mr. Sullivan is describing is treating the City of Chicago a foreign country to be occupied by military forces under the direct control of his administration. This pro-law enforcement ad might not be so, um, pro-legal. he was a civilian contractor, never active duty, and not a veteran. - Pundent - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:31 am: From stolen valor to stolen ad. - Proud Papa Bear - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:17 am: C. Its hard to spice up bland. Most stolen-valor cases dont involve master criminals but, rather, average men who want to be treated as if they were extraordinary. 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. Documenting and debunking fakers has become easier as more of our lives have moved online. She scoured Foleys social-media accounts, trying to find other holes in his story. Burkett began FOIA-ing with abandon. Sullivan: Absolutely not. 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. After claiming in his campaign launch that he led combat patrols in Afghanistan, it was revealed thathe was a civilian contractor, never active duty, and not a veteran. 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. I thought I was going to have a heart attack on the spot, Ford told the podcast Reply All. Some of the most uncomfortable stolen-valor videos involve confrontations with people who appear to be confused, mentally ill, or homeless. Privacy Policy. Now, with just days to go, hes trying anything he can to grab voters attention in a last-minute hail mary. - Red Ranger - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:52 am: If youre explaining, youre losing. We were so focussed on Foley, we didnt even think about Jowers, Bart said. IRVIN LIE: [Sullivan] says that he wore, you know, he served in uniform. Matt Allen. An agent at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service told me that most cases of stolen valor dont involve career criminals. By last year, his videos had been viewed fifty million times. Spencer Sullivan. The role of patient is well defined in our society, he said. The only differentiation is outsider. Foleys opponent in the Republican primary was Rick Jowers, a mild, approachable sheriffs deputy with a handlebar mustache. 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. Thanks for telling us who you are Jesse. GOP candidates for governor debut TV spots blaming Pritzker for crime rise - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Seems to be a LOT of wrong-headed thinking in politics these days. - Brr Cold - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:26 pm: LOL. Article: What is Stolen Valor? McMaster, US Army (ret.) Spot pulled for typos because only the best people are working on this campaign. Are they going to try to out right wing each other because they have tothese former Democratic voters/supportersto win todays GOP base? Hed be enjoying an All-Star Special at Waffle House, where veterans can get a ten-per-cent discount, when a man would start asking questions about his military service. 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. Everything else? 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. By day, he managed an apartment building in Pueblo, Colorado; in his spare time, he maintained lists of medal recipients and wrote eighty-one books, the majority about military history. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:08 am: It always creeps me out when evangelicals go into to politics to save us. Hes losing. I also view the ad as reinforcing the stolen valor issue. Albert Brum. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. - Mcin33 - Wednesday, May 18, 22 @ 9:31 pm: My lord. Welp, if youre pulling it, thats not playing anywhere? ===. However, they are answerable to their constituents. People in positions of trust use military credentials to bolster their authority; pastors, sheriffs, and politicians are regularly featured on stolen-valor Web sites. - 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. 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. - 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. The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis. - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:45 am: ===how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? Military police state is just fine but a three inch piece of cloth to keep people alive s UnAmerican? The interview is linked, Jesse did not claim to be a veteran. Id have to check the laws, but it certainly seems like Mr. Government Ethics is using local government resources for political purposes. (When I visited him, he greeted me by saying, Nice truck. - vern - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:51 am: At this point hes gonna need the National Guard to get his petitions done. He called the current deputies a bunch of yahoos and mocked them for wearing cowboy boots instead of tactical shoes. Illinois needs a new Director at DCFS. Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com. 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. - Manchester - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:04 pm: If anyone doubted it, its obvious Mr. Sullivan has drunk the far rights Kool-Aid. 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. Hope leaves. Try reading a little about history, maybe google Kent State massacre. - 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. Your Illinois News Radar *** UPDATED x1 - Capitol Fax.com He kept having odd interactions with strangers. 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. Republican candidate for governor Jesse Sullivan stands in a soybean field and points to his home in Petersburg, Illinois, in a campaign video. Monday, May 9, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * Background is here if you need it. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:00 pm: Wasnt Sullivan a contractor, not a DoD civilian? I note that several of the sheriffs do appear in street clothes, so maybe they checked it out and were warned beforehand.
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