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. 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. - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:11 pm: - lenoard - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:22 pm: I have an idea take all the republican candidates fo r Governor put them in a sack shake it up really good. I have always believed in the sanctity of life. I would give it a A, in that if is very focused on a key element of Republican Politics, and tugs at the hearts of the fearful. - Manchester - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:04 pm: If anyone doubted it, its obvious Mr. Sullivan has drunk the far rights Kool-Aid. Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Schimpf has mostly followed Ronald Reagans 11th Commandment and avoided speaking ill of his Republican opponents. And I wouldnt call McLean a county nobody has ever heard of. Ill match any offer, do whatever it takes to get yer vote. So clueless, its offensive. Ad Choices. 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. Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com. If the blackout lasts into the regular season, Comcast subscribers also wouldnt have access to NFL Red Zone. Id give it a B for the target audience that wont see it if its been pulled. We have to do something and have urgency. No, you use the resources at your disposal to save peoples lives. It turned out that he had submitted a doctored DD 214the record of military servicewhen he applied for his position, crediting himself with such honors as the Saudi Arabian Liberation Medal and the Sniper Badge, neither of which exist. We are back with Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. But Sullivan should probably stop digging holes that hell eventually have to fill himself. - Brr Cold - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:26 pm: LOL. United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709 (2012), is a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was unconstitutional. 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. If they say theyre fully pro-life, theyll lose, because this is a pro-choice state. - Paddyrollingstone - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:09 pm: Getting some Jack! Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. 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. 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. The hard part, Shipley said, is that nobody believes anybody anymore.. - Tobor - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:18 am: - Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:20 am: Also why is it that the GOP seems real excited to have armed troops showing up at peoples doors, so long as it is not in their neighborhood? Republicans are the pro-life party. Is the New York I used to know gone for good? 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. 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. Call this coward Richard Irvin, at (630) 555-1212, and demand him to be straight with Illinois Republicans.. Adding Check out the front license plate on the car on the far left. 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. Mr. Sullivans words are those of a person who fundamentally does not understand democratic governments and basic civil rights. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. An agent at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service told me that most cases of stolen valor dont involve career criminals. D. - here we go - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:09 am: Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. 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. So, Sullivan has no control over that. In many instances, though, the motivations are muddier. I was dismissing how persuasive it is to cite them in trying to move the needle state wide. This primary is fascinating because the real story is the difference in staffing. Absolutely. I note that several of the sheriffs do appear in street clothes, so maybe they checked it out and were warned beforehand. Ill say anything to get yer vote. 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? I just need help in finding out if he does indeed have these medals.. - Arsenal - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:41 am: D. Dont continue to talk about your opponents attack. But one thing I learned from that experience was that many if not most are also civilian police. He was a darn good deputy, Terry Joy, who had been the sheriff of Callahan County since 2013, told me. The better move would be to change the subject. The only winner in this ad is the media folks making cash off of Sullivan. 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.
USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - WAW - United States Department of Justice Military Phonies gets more than a hundred thousand unique views on a good day, according to the Web sites administrator. - 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? 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. - Lincoln Lad - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:05 pm: The GOP pool of candidates will make this easy for JB. (When I visited him, he greeted me by saying, Nice truck. 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. 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.. In fact, he had served as a private in the Army, gone AWOL in Germany, and received an other than honorable discharge. 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. Some of the so-called valor thieves busted by Shipley and others fit Tom Cottones descriptiontheir lies about their military service are part of a larger pattern of deception. - Steve Polite - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:00 pm: For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well.. Citizens leave. Very good ad for stoking GOP base obsession with police and crime. On day one, I would end those. Thereve only been thirteen Medals of Honor awarded by the Air Force in history. 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.. 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). My military doesnt have nothing to do with what Im doing for the county right now, he said. Kinda awkward that his LG running mate hasnt commented yet. The only vaccine mandate still in effect anywhere that was initiated by the government is the mandate for healthcare workers and that mandate was upheld by the Supreme Court. Is it the all-arms-on-deck, save the ship, community health/resilience strain? 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. Thirty Years Later, Its Still Burning. A D, I guess? 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. So are singles, batting average and stolen bases. 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.. Since Shipley started his channel, confrontations between service members and potential impostors have become wildly popular on YouTube. What?
Veterans from across the state also published an open letter this morning, saying, Every veteran who served in combat served alongside Department of Defense civilians. He called the current deputies a bunch of yahoos and mocked them for wearing cowboy boots instead of tactical shoes. - 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. I cant answer why somebody would do those types of things. Sullivan is woefully unqualified to be Governor. Even sending civilian law enforcement officers to an area they dont normally work is not ideal and is awful for an officers home life. Sullivan was recruited to be in the Army's Human Terrain System, which. In a press conference today, Richard Irvin yet again ducked important questions on abortion and his own Democrat voting record, distorted his own background, and blatantly lied about Jesse Sullivan. - Arsenal - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:49 am: I gotta admit I find this guy interesting, but until he can actually put his petitions on the street, I feel like I should ignore him. 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 - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:00 pm: Wasnt Sullivan a contractor, not a DoD civilian? People in positions of trust use military credentials to bolster their authority; pastors, sheriffs, and politicians are regularly featured on stolen-valor Web sites. Allegations that gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan's petitions contain hundreds of fake signatures are untrue and a "political stunt" by McHenry County businessman and Republican rival. . Grabbing popcorn, this might be fun to watch (hey, I didnt cause it).
Jesse Sullivan Desperately Tries to Hide Baggage But Here's the Truth Same can be said for his extensive experience in public health and mental health. Stupid and illegal. On day one, I would end those. 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. - The Dude Abides - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:15 am: Ill give it a C-. This is awful. Illinois is a pro choice state. Be sure to wear a mask on public transportation. (Dennehy served five years in the Marines, but never in Vietnam; he apologized after Burkett went public with his accusation.)
Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar Jesse Sullivan hires Stolen Valor : This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here As soon as I watched that video of the debate, the Web sites administrator told me, I was, like, Lets FOIA both these guys.. Shipley studied how to make a video go viral. - 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. In reality, hes an honorably discharged military veteran, Robert Dalton, the Clyde police chief, told me. Ultimately , those Units were not used. Great agenda, have the guard do something theyre not trained to do and let Americans die during a pandemic. I wonder if his campaign has reached out to Arthur Jones yet about being his running mate. - 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. The role of patient is well defined in our society, he said. We all heard the same kinds of comments about Trump, Rauner and Pritzker and they all turned out- - opps- - never mind. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:45 am: If Sullivan wanted to serve, he shouldve joined a branch of service. They undertake the mission at great personal risk. Hes losing. 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. I find it scary. I was born a protector and an overwatcher, he told a local television station. McMaster, US Army (ret.) Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right. So I guess he could get rid of those.
Sullivan, a businessman from Petersburg, is spending nearly $90,000 to air his latest commercial on cable TV for two weeks, industry reports show. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:16 am: We dont have a vaccine mandate in Illinois so theres nothing there for him to end. At a gathering for honorees, in the nineties, a short man approached Sterner, holding a photograph of a man wearing a medal. Vaccines have been required for schools, the military, and some employers for a long time. They can do anything, including tracking down violent criminals better than the police who are trained. Is that right? Last February, YouTube suspended Shipleys channel for harassment. There is good reason to believe that a similar fate would befall other false claimants.. - Pundent - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:31 am: From stolen valor to stolen ad. You would call them out even to hunt down violent criminals. I am concerned that he may not have received [the medals] but is implying that he has, she wrote. Spencer Sullivan. Spot pulled for typos because only the best people are working on this campaign. If he wont stand with us, we cant allow him to be our next governor? Ill look around to see if its elsewhere. (Alvarez had also falsely claimed to be a professional ice-hockey player and to have been married to a Mexican movie star.) David Gentry. Its like cancelling someone onlineyou cant fix the bigger problem, so you just attack this stranger., Shipley partly blames himself for seeding these confrontations. - The Dude Abides - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:07 pm: As a previous poster mentioned in his comment its red meat for the GOP base. If a candidate hedges, theyll lose evangelicals and a bunch more of the base and ultimately lose. The memo was produced by afirm founded bythe same consulting group working for Sullivans campaign and that late leadhasnt been confirmedby any other polling. - 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?
You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. - Langhorne - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:15 am: === Im an outsider and a man of faith called to protect and serve.===. He photographed the trash can by the road to show that its contents never changed. It went big really kinda quick, he said. Illinois needs a new Director at DCFS. Tuesday, Mar 29, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * The spot begins with county sheriffs complaining about anti-police rhetoric, career politicians, etc. Upon being shot at there was always someone back from Overseas who immediately opened up. - 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. He kept having odd interactions with strangers. I have dishonored all veterans. Typically, though, punishment is meted out online. - Red Ketcher - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:34 am: 1969 Ft. - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:45 am: ===how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? - Red Ranger - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:52 am: If youre explaining, youre losing. When I think of the Guard I think of disaster response not vigilantism. There is now a company based in SPI. - Steve Rogers - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:55 am: =Other than showing that 6 sheriffs from counties most Illinoisans have never heard of=. A Montana countys battle shows how faith in public learning and public space is fraying. He has gone from being a joke to a dangerous joke. Cmon. 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. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Seems to be a LOT of wrong-headed thinking in politics these days. What exactly does JB have to. Made with by creatives with a conscience. All that does is make me think the candidate wants me to be afraid. That would be a good question for a serious candidate. We do have some military police in the Illinois National Guard. IRVIN LIE: [Sullivan] says that he wore, you know, he served in uniform. And these top-down mandates from Governor Pritzker who thinks he knows best. 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 I did listen to the ten minute interview Mr. Sullivan did with WGN. Try reading a little about history, maybe google Kent State massacre. 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. He wrote that an official at the National Archives told him that he was probably the Archives number one individual FOIA user.. 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. Hes been surprised by how many older women watch, too. Im lethal with a keyboardyou cant lie to me, he has said. Within a few days, Foley resigned. Griffin should just buy another penthouse. My father served 30 years in the Air Force and I have regard for servicemen. 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? Some guys were just really out for blood, he said. Because I think most peoples first instinct is that calling into question someones service is rather icky. Is it the every man for himself, arms-a-gettin, vigilante, frontier strain? It doesnt make sense.. - Arsenal - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:06 am: ==Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. A decade ago, Shipley began posting YouTube videos debunking false SEAL claims. Its a D, Sullivan is a phony to his want. Some Callahan County residents were ready to forgive him. In the online age, lies about service are harder to sustainand easier to punish. A flashy memo isnt enough to hide Sullivans baggage in the home stretch, no matter how hard he tries. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. Foley was not on the list. - girl in the woods - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:06 pm: This is a crazy word salad- sounds like Trumps speeches. She scoured Foleys social-media accounts, trying to find other holes in his story. Elsewhere in the news . The detectives who investigate fake stories of military service use many tools, including shame. - DuPage - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:15 am: Maybe all he could afford to pay for was one ad. Got it. 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.. In the evening, the truck had been replaced by a patrol car. Also, comparing soldier combat deaths to civilian murder deaths is not even apples to oranges. 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. While civilian contractors may be armed and act in defensive roles such as providing security, the use of contractors in contingency operations is specifically limited in DoD Instruction 3020.41 to support operations in a non-combat role. If Mr. Sullivan wants to claim unprecedented combat leadership experience as a civilian contractor, he should identify the officer that he directly reported to while in theater in order to verify this extraordinary assertion. Speak much Jesse? Conclusion: Be Careful. 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. Like I said before, theres no need to embellish this stuff. - 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. 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.
Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar Rate Jesse Sullivan's I also view the ad as reinforcing the stolen valor issue. Politicians lie to get us into wars; generals lie about how well things are going; soldiers lie about what they did during their service. Federal mask mandate for air travel is over, but wearing one is still the best option, Food delivery apps helped my restaurant survive, thrive, Amazon workers actions should ignite a labor revolution, Stay close, pull it out late? Many years ago, I worked for an employer in a congregate setting that required certain vaccines as a condition of employment. Everything else? 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? 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. 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. - SWSider - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:21 pm: Lol. This was pre-social media, and it started going kind of viral, Whitley said. Grifters lie about being war heroes, then steal money from women they meet on dating sites. Support Renewable Energy Credits. 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. 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. Ask an ISP officer from downstate in a couple of months how they like being rotated in and out of Chicago.
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