I dont like the man of faith being called to serve. 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. 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. 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. So what sets these two apart on crime? - Annonin' - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 6:13 pm: NG units are trained for specific tasks. On his campaign Facebook page, he displayed his medals: a Silver Star, for valor in combat, and a Purple Heart. 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. All that does is make me think the candidate wants me to be afraid. 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. He struck me as sincere, Shumway said. - 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? Hood Texas - Some guys were just really out for blood, he said. Hes trying everything to bury the baggage thats exposed serious contradictions about his past and his record,said DGA Illinois Press Secretary Yael Sheinfeld. Then people started bringing up the comments that Jowers had made during a debate with Foley. - 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. I felt I was doing something really pretty dirtyleading this woman on to help her incriminate her husband so the F.B.I. . - 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. Sullivans campaign responded with a 300-word background statement which claimed Sullivans Army team leader never left the base. At a gathering for honorees, in the nineties, a short man approached Sterner, holding a photograph of a man wearing a medal. No other GOP candidates were mentioned. In True Grit, and other novels, Portis displayed a genius that went beyond character in the strictly literary sense. One issue mentioned by others is the ethics of using uniformed police with their government funded vehicles in the ad. So what sets these two apart on crime? Military Phonies gets more than a hundred thousand unique views on a good day, according to the Web sites administrator. A small amount of competition for Irvin, who has the advantage of Griffins millions, at least on paper. 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.. Instead, people called Bart a stalker. History has shown that doesnt work. 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. 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. 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. They can do anything, including tracking down violent criminals better than the police who are trained. 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. In 1782, when George Washington awarded ribbons and badges to valorous Revolutionary War troops, he was already worrying about pretenders. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was a federal law that criminalized false statements about having a military medal. 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. ==. Vaccines have been required for schools, the military, and some employers for a long time. 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. The nearly seven-hundred-page book explored many of Burketts preoccupationsthat P.T.S.D. - Grandson of Man - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:48 pm: Sullivan is throwing down a strong marker for other GOP candidates. "I felt I was doing something really pretty . Elsewhere in the news . 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. could go in and take his medal, Sterner said. 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. Grabbing popcorn, this might be fun to watch (hey, I didnt cause it). Welp, if youre pulling it, thats not playing anywhere? Mocked up buildings and opposing forces. Bart is a deliberate man with a long, wiry beard. We are back with Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. Shipleys videos belong to a genre known as justice porn, which Urban Dictionary defines as getting off on watching someone get their due for being a scumbag piece of shit. Justice porn allows us to indulge our baser instincts, ostensibly in the service of righteousness. 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. - Lt Guv - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:26 pm: My phrase of the day describes Sullivan to a T. Not ready for prime time.. I spent 30 years in civilian law enforcement and 8 years in a military police guard unit in Illinois. It turned out that Williams had fabricated his service, and that the second-longest-surviving Confederate soldier probably had, too. 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. He has gone from being a joke to a dangerous joke. Ask active military, civilian DoD, and a contractor when all three are sitting at the same table. Breaking Radical Globalist Jesse Sullivan's Stolen Valor Scandal And The Anti-Israeli Magazine He Founded Could Destroy His Candidacy For Illinois Governor:. You want to pair that with his hollow words on public safety, you might have something. - Red Ketcher - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:34 am: 1969 Ft. 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. What year is it?) Last summer, Bart saw something odd at a nearby house. I think he just got caught up in the moment, Sheriff Joy said. 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. He found that the actor Brian Dennehy, famous for playing Rambos law-enforcement antagonist in First Blood, had lied about suffering combat wounds in Vietnam. Slaughter character or even Remus, frankly being a valor thief at his peak, when kayfabe was still strong, past a few mid-1980s Marines. To the issue of calling out the National Guard to help fight crime - Ill take a hard pass on that one. It went big really kinda quick, he said. The Times Herald reported that Williams was a Vietnam veteran; one of the papers columnists wondered whether Vietnam did that to him. On a whim, Burkett filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain Williamss military records and discovered that he had never served in Vietnam. Follow up question: How are vaccines hurting our children, Mr. Sullivan? Firing people who are not willing to get the vaccine, those frontline workers who have been taking on the burden of this crisis, and then youre going to fire them? - Rudys teeth - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:26 am: Sullivan, as an outsider and a man of faith who wishes to protect and serve, is running for the wrong office. We all know what that means, IRVIN LIE: [Sullivan] advocates and supports open borders. Privacy Policy. 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. 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. for political or campaign purposes to any candidate or political organization (10 ILCS 5/9-25.1(b)). 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. 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. And I mean- with his money, he still absolutely has plenty of time to get the signaturesfor now. His wife, Diane, a platinum-haired straight-talker, was a regular guest, as were the couples many dogs, ducks, and grandchildren. and we should value and thank those who have served our country, putting their own lives at risk doing so.. (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. You gotta be entertaining, you gotta be funny, he said. - 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. If the blackout lasts into the regular season, Comcast subscribers also wouldnt have access to NFL Red Zone. As for the mask mandates, just add him to the long list of Republicans who are pro-COVID. I was dismissing how persuasive it is to cite them in trying to move the needle state wide. Huh? Doesnt seem legal to me. The guy would usually be polite, but the interactions felt more like interrogations than like conversations. - northsider (the original) - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:01 pm: - Excitable Boy - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:02 pm: If Sullivan wants to play soldier so bad why doesnt he just join the military and spare us the theatrics? 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. We were so focussed on Foley, we didnt even think about Jowers, Bart said. He was just a good old country boy who wanted to help you. - City Guy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 12:16 pm: F for the potential fall out. Last February, YouTube suspended Shipleys channel for harassment. The Court found that the Stolen Valor Act violated the First Amendment. On the Reddit boards, people will talk about what makes them suspicious that someone is not a real vet, Kristiana Willsey, a folklorist at the University of Southern California who studies military narratives, said. Jowers was well known, and largely well liked, throughout the county; I heard stories of people calling him for help wrangling loose goats and managing family disputes. The yard was weedy; the windows were covered with aluminum foil. Nice Irish ballot name, good hair and a nice jawline. will run this same ad with different faces. The Sterners timing was fortuitous. Even the man of faith bit seemed forced. 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.) Justwhat? Politicians lie to get us into wars; generals lie about how well things are going; soldiers lie about what they did during their service. So clueless, its offensive. - 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. Im no fan of Sullivan, or any of the Rs running, but theres no need to be dismissive. And finally, I proudly served our nation in uniform doing counterinsurgency work in Helmand Afghanistan with the US Department of Defense. Im on time, like all military people are. The only winner in this ad is the media folks making cash off of Sullivan. - Sir Reel - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:09 pm: And then a candidate takes a hard right on the way to the Republican primary. So, I asked, how could Sullivan have led combat patrols? For his work abroad, Sullivan received the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Global War on Terrorism, and the Department of the Army Commanders Award for Civilian Service. /s. We do have some military police in the Illinois National Guard. At least Sullie is talkin as opposed to Team Riffie & RichieRich. Foleys opponent in the Republican primary was Rick Jowers, a mild, approachable sheriffs deputy with a handlebar mustache. ===. I did listen to the ten minute interview Mr. Sullivan did with WGN. Thats hardly a recipe for Bulls success against Bucks, The Edgar haircut is one more thing kids, parents can disagree on, Charges filed in stabbing of Loop Target employee, 7 big questions facing Bears after NFL Draft, Comcast drops NFL Network after carriage agreement expires, Foundation for growth: Cubs impressed with Ben Brown before he makes his Triple-A debut, Chicagos OK Cool brings signature DIY spirit to new EP fawn, A month into the season, MLB rules changes are having the desired effect. He photographed the trash can by the road to show that its contents never changed. Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. Not the job of the guard to be our daily police force. Jesse Sullivan: Yeah, absolutely. Nobody's talking about the Sgt. I mean when PQ won his election, didnt he lose just about all the states counties (except for a couple)? 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. Call this coward Richard Irvin, at (630) 555-1212, and demand him to be straight with Illinois Republicans.. John Williams: You, on your website, use the National Guard a lot. - Pundent - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:31 am: From stolen valor to stolen ad. Culture shapes lies, too. 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. 2023 Cond Nast. Yeah, I was wondering about that. Is that a lie somehow? Article: What is Stolen Valor? So, calling out the National Guard means diminishing police forces in the members own communities. One of the appeals of patienthood is the special dispensationwe reduce our expectations of that person, we give them attention. The role of veteran, which comes freighted with its own set of expectations and benefits, is similarly alluring. - walker - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:07 pm: This guy might have some talents. Otherwise, he should correct the misleading language on his website.. - Frank talks - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 5:02 pm: Jesse should stop talking and get a running mate. 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. It included two potentially positive statements about an unknown candidate to test their appeal, then revealed that they were both about Jesse Sullivan. One evening, she mentioned Foleys military medals to her father, a retired colonel in the Air Force. 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. I am 100% Pro Life and I will be the strongest Pro Life governor in Illinois history. 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. Theyre hurting our children. All rights reserved. Then she decided to try to get the legislation passed. He called the current deputies a bunch of yahoos and mocked them for wearing cowboy boots instead of tactical shoes. Thereve only been thirteen Medals of Honor awarded by the Air Force in history. At least Paul Schimpf knows he is running for an agency directors job. In the evening, the truck had been replaced by a patrol car. - 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. Should any who are not entitled to these honors have the insolence to assume the badges of them they shall be severely punished, he wrote. I feel like Bailey/Irvin/etc. The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis. Sullivans campaign pushed back hard on the out-of-state angle, insisting he was a Petersburg guy who had made lots of influential business friends in California and other states. But the States Attorneys and District Attorneys across the nation/state who wont prosecute and let criminals walk arent?? - LakeCo - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:24 pm: =Theyre hurting our children.= 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. 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. It is courageous to serve in combat environments, in any capacity. 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. Military Phonies was already looking into Jowerss background. Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right. Got it. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. - Micky Finn - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 9:13 am: I used to think Rezin was a moderate. 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. 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. Msg&Data rates may apply. 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. - 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. The average game times of 2 hours, 36 minutes are down from 3:03 in 2022. People who lie about having served often seem less interested in money than in belonging to an esteemed group. 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. 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. We have to do something and have urgency. 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. I think Id prefer he just yada, yada, yada me and tell me he likes the lobster bisque. Adding The final version of the TV spot is here. Hes losing. Stolen Valor Valor Thieves' Gallery. He requested the records of a Green Beret who signed autographs for kids at parades: faker. 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. Traditionally many are local and state cops in their day jobs so Sullies deployment takes real cops off their street to do his manhunt. Throwing the guard at addressing violent crime is a recipe for disaster (recall Kent State). 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. Ill say anything to get yer vote. Help Illinois Colleges And Universities Go Green. Adding Sullivans consultant firm worked for Glenn Youngkins gubernatorial campaign and they ran a very similar TV ad during that race. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:00 pm: Wasnt Sullivan a contractor, not a DoD civilian? - 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. A D, I guess? He wrote that an official at the National Archives told him that he was probably the Archives number one individual FOIA user.. Theyre always loaded questions, Lindinger told me. America's top infectious-disease expert discusses how governments can respond to save lives in pandemics. - The Fellow Edgar - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:48 am: What is Sullivan doing in this race exactly? - 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. This is such awful word salad. 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. Fire up the bluesmobile, Jake. Like Burkett, Sterner verged on the obsessive. - Roadrager - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:12 am: - New Day - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:14 am: Oh my. *** 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. Were on a mission from God. Shipley is one of the most prominent figures in the field, the closest thing it has to an influencer. She scoured Foleys social-media accounts, trying to find other holes in his story. -. If he wont stand with us, we cant allow him to be our next governor? - Trolling Troll - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:30 am: Wasnt one Carhartt Billionaire enough for Illinois? Did Sullivan really live in downstate Petersburg, as he claimed, or did he live in the San Francisco area?

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