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. - Huh? and Sullivans former supervisor emphasized the personal risk Jesse faced, saying: The location the HTS team (and Jesse) was assigned to in 2012 was extremely hostile and volatile the patrols the HTS team participated in were often targeted by insurgents with improvised explosive devices, rifle fires, and mortars., Lt. Gen. H.R. People in positions of trust use military credentials to bolster their authority; pastors, sheriffs, and politicians are regularly featured on stolen-valor Web sites. Sounds to me like he needs to be a minister and not Governor. 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. You want to pair that with his hollow words on public safety, you might have something. - Give Us Barabbas - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:27 am: Spot must have been QC checked by the guys that made the wraps for the back of the semi trailers. I stole valor. 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. So what sets these two apart on crime? When I joined the military decades ago, I was required to get a regimen of vaccines, more when deploying overseas. And, for sure, this military combat claim needs to be cleared up right away. 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. Monday, May 9, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * Background is here if you need it. Jowers withdrew from the race and resigned his job with the sheriffs department. Adding Check out the front license plate on the car on the far left. Even so, there were only a handful of people regularly investigating false military claims. Stupid and illegal. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. Im laughing because it happened a lot, he said. James Blanton (no photo) Anthony Colombo. I thought he came across much worse than the comments in the blog indicates. - Ryan - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 12:16 pm: Campaigning in a publicly funded police car? 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. As someone who, you know, you began with the commercial being on the civilian intelligence side over in Afghanistan, you see the power of our military and their abilities. When I think of the Guard I think of disaster response not vigilantism. - vole - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:27 pm: unAmerican is getting to need some definition. Because I think most peoples first instinct is that calling into question someones service is rather icky. Stolen Valor Act of 2005 - Wikipedia 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. - Back to the Future - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:51 pm: The downside to being a woefully unprepared and woefully unqualified candidate- - -. 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. All that does is make me think the candidate wants me to be afraid. I am concerned that he may not have received [the medals] but is implying that he has, she wrote. Foleys apparent lie about his residence offended Bart. I felt I was doing something really pretty dirtyleading this woman on to help her incriminate her husband so the F.B.I. In-depth political coverage, sports analysis, entertainment reviews and cultural commentary. - Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:22 am: Only one of you guys get to play Clint Eastwood. Hes trying everything to bury the baggage thats exposed serious contradictions about his past and his record,said DGA Illinois Press Secretary Yael Sheinfeld. Theyve got your back, but whos got your video? - Roadrager - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:12 am: - New Day - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:14 am: Oh my. In many instances, though, the motivations are muddier. 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.) Is that right? Accompanying that trust was mounting anxiety that it could be abused. I said, Well, thats the Air Force design of the Medal of Honor. 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. 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. Theyre hurting our children. History has shown that doesnt work. That night, a representative from Military Phonies e-mailed Amber, saying that it usually took the group several weeks to put together a complete record, and pointing her to a list of Silver Star recipients compiled by a military historian named Doug Sterner. Is the New York I used to know gone for good? 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. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:18 am: Correction - We do have mandates for certain state workers in congregate care settings. - Mcin33 - Wednesday, May 18, 22 @ 9:31 pm: My lord. Is that a lie somehow? It turned out that Williams had fabricated his service, and that the second-longest-surviving Confederate soldier probably had, too. - Micky Finn - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 9:13 am: I used to think Rezin was a moderate. - Huh? 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? Ive asked the campaign about the use of law enforcement vehicles in the campaign ad. I mean when PQ won his election, didnt he lose just about all the states counties (except for a couple)? All rights reserved. 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. - Lt Guv - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:26 pm: My phrase of the day describes Sullivan to a T. Not ready for prime time.. Absolutely. - Amalia - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 1:09 pm: - Carlos Danger - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 2:08 pm: Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. Ultimately , those Units were not used. 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. After weeks of polling at third place, Sullivan this week released apolling memoshowing him tied in the lead with Bailey. 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. People who lie about having served often seem less interested in money than in belonging to an esteemed group. Some guys were just really out for blood, he said. Basically, there were three of usmyself, Jug Burkett, and a couple out of Missouri, Doug Sterner, who calls himself an accidental stolen-valor researcher, told me. Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right. and we should value and thank those who have served our country, putting their own lives at risk doing so.. Also, comparing soldier combat deaths to civilian murder deaths is not even apples to oranges. On day one, I would end those. The role of patient is well defined in our society, he said. - Pundent - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:31 am: From stolen valor to stolen ad. He has outlined the actions of a dictator. 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. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:21 am: ===This ad will play well in Peoria County and south.===. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:16 am: We dont have a vaccine mandate in Illinois so theres nothing there for him to end. - wowie - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:39 am: Jesse Sullivan campaign slogan: Hey, guys look at me - Im still here. A short list of Lt. Gov candidates will appear soon or has everyone said, Thanks for asking but no.. - vern - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:51 am: At this point hes gonna need the National Guard to get his petitions done. In Foleys public filings, he listed the neighboring house as his residence. - 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. 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. And as far back as 2007, when Jowers applied to work at the Taylor County jail, he claimed to have been an Airborne Ranger. Msg&Data rates may apply. At a gathering for honorees, in the nineties, a short man approached Sterner, holding a photograph of a man wearing a medal. There once was a MP battalion in Chicago (right behind Watertower. 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. A 2012 profile of Sullivan in the State Journal-Register mentioned that his team, left the British military unit stationed in the area with recommendations for strengthening the local police force and reopening a school., When I questioned Sullivans campaign about this seeming rhetorical contradiction, they acknowledged that he was an Army civilian without veteran status who nevertheless led and participated in combat patrols in Afghanistan.. - The Fellow Edgar - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:48 am: What is Sullivan doing in this race exactly? Saying he was called to protect and serve in this context implies that he is/was a police officer. I dont want anyone near any levers of power who refuses to protect their citizens during a pandemic. I hear youre something of a Medal of Honor historian, he said. Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar Jesse Sullivan said he It didnt for the Br!t!$h in the 20th century at various locations. An Iraq War veteran was jumped and had his leg broken outside a Sacramento bar by two men who thought he was lying about being a marine. 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. It will be interesting to see if Davison can help Sullivan's campaign. Welp, if youre pulling it, thats not playing anywhere? - Downstate Dem - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:14 am: From the 2022 Illinois Candidates Guide: INFLUENCING VOTERS WITH PUBLIC FUNDS GOP governor candidate Jesse Sullivan should stop digging holes he'll Perhaps some joint training with CPD would help the CPD deal with these kinds of situations in the future. - 47th Ward - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:41 pm: ===an attack like this from an opponent with the credentials to make it.===. Just before my visit, one of the familys cats was killed by a raccoon. Over a 3 month +/- period Fire Control never worked. Albert Brum. - 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. He has gone from being a joke to a dangerous joke. His service, to my knowledge, has not been questioned, but his ire was raised by some of Jesse Sullivans campaign claims. - Proud Papa Bear - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:17 am: C. Its hard to spice up bland. 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. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Help Illinois Colleges And Universities Go Green. His wife, Diane, a platinum-haired straight-talker, was a regular guest, as were the couples many dogs, ducks, and grandchildren. 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. 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. Its very weird that Baileys home-grown true believers and Sullivans glitzy national consultants have both decided to let Irvin define the issues in this race. 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. A great wat to connect with the constituents and experience the CTA. 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. - Henry Francis - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:07 am: I was not dismissing those 6 counties. 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. - 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 was a darn good deputy, Terry Joy, who had been the sheriff of Callahan County since 2013, told me. Unfortunately for him, voters know the truth and theyll remember it at the ballot box next week., By providing your cell phone number you consent to receive recurring text message updates from the Democratic Governors Association, including by automated text messages. (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. Republican Jesse Sullivan wants to shift focus from the coronavirus to 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. Ill match any offer, do whatever it takes 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 Military police state is just fine but a three inch piece of cloth to keep people alive s UnAmerican? - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:39 pm: Why do interviews with Republican candidates sound like 1980s exchanges between Gene Okerlund and Jesse The Body Ventura? Cyril Pelkey. *** UPDATE *** Another Sullivan press release. America's top infectious-disease expert discusses how governments can respond to save lives in pandemics. Is that right?===. Thursday, Jan 27, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * WGN Radios John Williams interviewed Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. 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. The guy would usually be polite, but the interactions felt more like interrogations than like conversations. 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 was a child several decades ago, I had to get vaccinated to attend school. Even the man of faith bit seemed forced. Stolen Valor Valor Thieves' Gallery. Otherwise, he should correct the misleading language on his website.. 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. Last night I got a robo-poll that I would presume was commissioned by the Sullivan campaign. 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. 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.. This was pre-social media, and it started going kind of viral, Whitley said. 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. - 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. . Fire up the bluesmobile, Jake. Im on time, like all military people are. The yard was weedy; the windows were covered with aluminum foil. 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. Pam Sterner overheard her husband and Cottone ranting about the current laws toothlessness. - Pundent - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:56 am: Wouldnt the first step be a fundamental shift in the Guards focus and training? That would be a good question for a serious candidate. - Politix - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:04 pm: Always fun to hear overprivileged white men from downstate rattle on about violence prevention. If a candidate hedges, theyll lose evangelicals and a bunch more of the base and ultimately lose. 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. Support Renewable Energy Credits. But, how much will that really matter? Throwing the guard at addressing violent crime is a recipe for disaster (recall Kent State). Sullivan is woefully unqualified to be Governor. Sullivans campaign responded with a 300-word background statement which claimed Sullivans Army team leader never left the base. It almost reinforces what the actual veterans say in Irvins ad. 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. 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. - Correcting - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:18 pm: Jesse Sullivan just needs to serve apple pie and make his campaign theme song I am a real American by Rick Derringer. Help Illinois Colleges And Universities Go Green. In the morning, a pickup truck was parked in front of the garage. 2023 Cond Nast. As Justice Kennedy predicted, public shaming has become the de-facto response to suspected stolen valor. In 1998, Burkett self-published Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, which he wrote with the investigative journalist Glenna Whitley. Foley repeatedly invoked his time in the Army. Its clear this is about way more than just stolen valor, the comedian Ian Fidance, who has made a series of parody stolen-valor videos, told me. Is Irvin also this strongly opposed to pandemic mandates? 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 cant answer why somebody would do those types of things. This pro-law enforcement ad might not be so, um, pro-legal. 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. 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. Not the job of the guard to be our daily police force. - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:45 am: ===how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. ==. Ad Choices. Got it. There is now a company based in SPI. And, obviously, guard members who are not from an area would have limited abilities as crime detectives. /s. I am not a veteran. 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. 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? Griffin should just buy another penthouse. Through games of Sunday, scoring is up when compared to March and April of 2022. - DuPage - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:15 am: Maybe all he could afford to pay for was one ad. - Buford - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:14 am: Seeing as they already removed it, must of not been great. 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. In 1782, when George Washington awarded ribbons and badges to valorous Revolutionary War troops, he was already worrying about pretenders.