I stole valor. So far, I am not impressed one bit. I think Id prefer he just yada, yada, yada me and tell me he likes the lobster bisque. I cant think of anyone using that phrase other than in context of being a police officer. In True Grit, and other novels, Portis displayed a genius that went beyond character in the strictly literary sense. could go in and take his medal, Sterner said. Perhaps some joint training with CPD would help the CPD deal with these kinds of situations in the future. I said, Well, thats the Air Force design of the Medal of Honor. Instead, people called Bart a stalker. If a candidate hedges, theyll lose evangelicals and a bunch more of the base and ultimately lose. Ill say anything to get yer vote. - Langhorne - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:15 am: === Im an outsider and a man of faith called to protect and serve.===. - Arsenal - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:04 pm: ==But the States Attorneys and District Attorneys across the nation/state who wont prosecute and let criminals walk arent?==. According to DOD records, Sullivan was a Human Terrain Analyst under US Army TRADOC G2, who led. People who lie about having served often seem less interested in money than in belonging to an esteemed group. -. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:16 am: We dont have a vaccine mandate in Illinois so theres nothing there for him to end. (Alvarez had also falsely claimed to be a professional ice-hockey player and to have been married to a Mexican movie star.) 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. 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. 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. Im not cop-trained, Im military-trained, he said, during a debate in Cross Plains, in January. All rights reserved. You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. 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. It turned out that Williams had fabricated his service, and that the second-longest-surviving Confederate soldier probably had, too. Might be time to concentrate on getting a running mate. 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. Support Renewable Energy Credits. Paid for by the Democratic Governors Association. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well. - Joe Bidenopolous - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:58 pm: Everyone knows this, including Republicans, who will have no chance of claiming theyre anything other than pro-life for the general election. 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. - Chambananon - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:42 am: State law prohibits State employees from using State resources for political purposes. Id have to check the laws, but it certainly seems like Mr. Government Ethics is using local government resources for political purposes. He said he served in Afghanistan. Within a few days, Foley resigned. Did Sullivan really live in downstate Petersburg, as he claimed, or did he live in the San Francisco area? - Sir Reel - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:09 pm: And then a candidate takes a hard right on the way to the Republican primary. When I was a child several decades ago, I had to get vaccinated to attend school. Foleys opponent in the Republican primary was Rick Jowers, a mild, approachable sheriffs deputy with a handlebar mustache. Sounds to me like he needs to be a minister and not Governor. The accused mumbles nonsensical answers before slinking off, exposed and humiliated. Shipley tried to keep things more or less professional, but his fans could be less scrupulous. I spent 30 years in civilian law enforcement and 8 years in a military police guard unit in Illinois. He struck me as sincere, Shumway said. 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. Its mandatory. 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. - Lt Guv - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:26 pm: My phrase of the day describes Sullivan to a T. Not ready for prime time.. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Adding Check out the front license plate on the car on the far left. At least Sullie is talkin as opposed to Team Riffie & RichieRich. I thought he came across much worse than the comments in the blog indicates. In 2015, Eric Lindinger, a Gulf War veteran, had a job that involved a lot of cross-country driving. - Steve - Tuesday, Jan 25, 22 @ 9:03 am: C-. They love our country. If he wont stand with us, we cant allow him to be our next governor? Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. - 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. - Steve Rogers - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:20 am: When it takes 200 words to say something you could say in 20 words, you really have a communication problem. Bart Kendrick, whose family has lived in the county since the nineteenth century, takes particular notice of vehicles. On Reddit, civilians share stories of getting called out for wearing military-themed hoodies, and worry about whether theyre stealing valor by wearing camouflage pants. He has outlined the actions of a dictator. - Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:22 am: Only one of you guys get to play Clint Eastwood. - 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. After The Hunt for Red October, everyone was a submariner, Don Shipley, who investigates fake Navy SEALs, told me. Jowers knew that Military Phonies was about to release his military records, which would show that he was not an Airborne Ranger, and that he had not been wounded in combat. Its only early until its late. Illinois is a pro choice state. 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. 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. In his ad, Sullivan compares Chicago to. Through games of Sunday, scoring is up when compared to March and April of 2022. - 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. All that does is make me think the candidate wants me to be afraid. Heres the script for the only ad you should be running: I grew up in Central Illinois and those are the values that Ill always uphold. 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. So far, GOP gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan has failed to break through the noise, drowned out by MAGA candidate Darren Bailey and flailing one-time frontrunner Richard Irvin. 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. - 47th Ward - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:15 pm: Last bit of free advice for Sully. Hes hiding behind millions of dollars given to him by a Chicago billionaire art collector. - 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. Kevin Mays. 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. - SWSider - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:21 pm: Lol. Adding The final version of the TV spot is here. I am concerned that he may not have received [the medals] but is implying that he has, she wrote. - WhiteHat24 - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:11 am: Is this not an ethics violation to use county vehicles and taxpayer resources out of your jurisdiction for political purposes? While Sterner and other early stolen-valor researchers worked largely behind the scenes, Shipleys videos were as much about his life as about the men he exposed. Military police state is just fine but a three inch piece of cloth to keep people alive s UnAmerican? Help Illinois Colleges And Universities Go Green. They can do anything, including tracking down violent criminals better than the police who are trained. 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. My military doesnt have nothing to do with what Im doing for the county right now, he said. He added that he, like Foley, was an Airborne Ranger with combat wounds: I served my country, I took a bullet for my country. We are back with Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. A flashy memo isnt enough to hide Sullivans baggage in the home stretch, no matter how hard he tries. 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. 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. - JS Mill - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:17 pm: =I put the over/under for Sullivans vote percent at 15 for the primary election.=, =And it wont matter if they do, when you have folks like the Governor of Mississippi saying I dont know yet when it comes to potentially banning *contraceptives*.=. Im laughing because it happened a lot, he said. And I wouldnt call McLean a county nobody has ever heard of. The Sullivan campaign released a new ad, featuring veterans voicing their disgust with the shameful political attack that is riddled with falsehoods. Like I said before, theres no need to embellish this stuff. Someone you could actually call and feel comfortable about it, said Marcia Shumway, a local stay-at-home mom and home-school teacher, who, with her husband, Paul, supported Jowers in the race. The better move would be to change the subject. - Pundent - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:56 am: Wouldnt the first step be a fundamental shift in the Guards focus and training? The hard part, Shipley said, is that nobody believes anybody anymore.. If the blackout lasts into the regular season, Comcast subscribers also wouldnt have access to NFL Red Zone. I guess its good that they managed to avoid repeating the stolen valor charge, but if the race becomes about Sullivans resume, Irvin is plenty happy with that. (When I visited him, he greeted me by saying, Nice truck. At a gathering for honorees, in the nineties, a short man approached Sterner, holding a photograph of a man wearing a medal. She scoured Foleys social-media accounts, trying to find other holes in his story. Upon being shot at there was always someone back from Overseas who immediately opened up. And, obviously, guard members who are not from an area would have limited abilities as crime detectives. Republicans are the pro-life party. 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 nearly seven-hundred-page book explored many of Burketts preoccupationsthat P.T.S.D. No other GOP candidates were mentioned. Dont Fire Back until given command. 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. 2023 Cond Nast. The detectives who investigate fake stories of military service use many tools, including shame. Until then businesses leave. It included two potentially positive statements about an unknown candidate to test their appeal, then revealed that they were both about Jesse Sullivan. I am 100% Pro Life and I will be the strongest Pro Life governor in Illinois history. The lies that people tell shift with the appetites of the era. I note that several of the sheriffs do appear in street clothes, so maybe they checked it out and were warned beforehand. A small amount of competition for Irvin, who has the advantage of Griffins millions, at least on paper. 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. I am hoping Pritzker is patient enough to let the gop nominee get into the small government shtick and then pound them into dust over the recent gop big government intrusion moves. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. 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. Ive asked the campaign about the use of law enforcement vehicles in the campaign ad. - Red Ketcher - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:34 am: 1969 Ft. It's again pinging the stolen valor want, someone who has this idea he's been "called" to protect and serve, when in actuality a commercial with a highlighting a candidate "at night" with. Many years ago, I worked for an employer in a congregate setting that required certain vaccines as a condition of employment. Like Burkett, Sterner verged on the obsessive. There is a saying in the Theater, Will it play in Peoria?. Is that a lie somehow? Im on time, like all military people are. . Grabbing popcorn, this might be fun to watch (hey, I didnt cause it). Sullivan was recruited to be in the Army's Human Terrain System, which. He requested the records of a Green Beret who signed autographs for kids at parades: faker. Im Jesse Sullivan. - Back to the Future - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:51 pm: The downside to being a woefully unprepared and woefully unqualified candidate- - -. It almost reinforces what the actual veterans say in Irvins ad. 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. What? When a liars story starts to spin wildly out of control, Shipley cocks an eyebrow. I briefly embedded with some in Iraq. In her final paper, she proposed criminalizing false claims about the nations highest medals. He talked about his sniper training and the bullets hed taken for his country. 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. Seems like we need an honest debate on which side of American best suits our group survival. Jesse Sullivan said he would "absolutely" use the National Guard to hunt down violent criminals, calls pandemic mandates "unAmerican" Thursday, Jan 27, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller * WGN. and then talking up Jesse Sullivan, who says, Im an outsider and a man of faith called to protect and serve. The guy would usually be polite, but the interactions felt more like interrogations than like conversations. By last year, his videos had been viewed fifty million times. Are they going to try to out right wing each other because they have tothese former Democratic voters/supportersto win todays GOP base? 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. He photographed the trash can by the road to show that its contents never changed. And it wont matter if they do, when you have folks like the Governor of Mississippi saying I dont know yet when it comes to potentially banning *contraceptives*. Foley was not on the list. He has gone from being a joke to a dangerous joke. Pam Sterner overheard her husband and Cottone ranting about the current laws toothlessness. In many instances, though, the motivations are muddier. The Armys unclassified handbook on the Human Terrain Team says its leaders were active duty or retired military officers. I think theyre unAmerican. No money down, no payments until next year. Bart and Amber Kendrick were taken aback. Meh. 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. 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. - Ron Burgundy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:33 pm: To add, of course Sullivans attempt to introduce himself - and overplaying it - left him wide open for an attack like this from an opponent with the credentials to make it. Hes been surprised by how many older women watch, too. Sullivan was part of what was known as the Armys Human Terrain System, which recruited civilians with social science backgrounds to help military commanders understand the local populations. Has anyone looked into Chief Deputy Rick Jowers past? someone asked on Facebook. 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. Great agenda, have the guard do something theyre not trained to do and let Americans die during a pandemic. John Howard. 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. - Retired and Still in Illinois - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:48 am: The idea of using the NG in this manner is ludicrous. So, calling out the National Guard means diminishing police forces in the members own communities. 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. Foley promised to professionalize the sheriffs department. 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? Foleys apparent lie about his residence offended Bart. Kevin Prohaska. Throwing the guard at addressing violent crime is a recipe for disaster (recall Kent State). Veterans of the Second World War placed themselves at the sites of iconic battles, even when they were stationed far away. Support Renewable Energy Credits. - vern - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:51 am: At this point hes gonna need the National Guard to get his petitions done. Hes a young, handsome made-for-TV candidate and already has way more money than any of his opponents could ever likely hope to raise. 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. Ask active military, civilian DoD, and a contractor when all three are sitting at the same table. - 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. 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. 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. Burkett began FOIA-ing with abandon. - Huh? To the issue of calling out the National Guard to help fight crime - Ill take a hard pass on that one. He kept having odd interactions with strangers. Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. 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. Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right. - Proud Papa Bear - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:17 am: C. Its hard to spice up bland. - 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. That evening, Jowers, on a call with his supporter Paul Shumway, started weeping. (It doesn't help, though that, even then, he would make the distinction to reporters that he was a "real Marine," like in a March 1981 Washington Evening Star . Richard Irvin wont say where he stands on this issue. Doesnt seem legal to me. - Paddyrollingstone - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:09 pm: Getting some Jack! Once the lie was made public, he was ridiculed online, he wrote. Vaccines have been required for schools, the military, and some employers for a long time. There once was a MP battalion in Chicago (right behind Watertower. Now, with just days to go, hes trying anything he can to grab voters attention in a last-minute hail mary. So I guess he could get rid of those. John Williams: You, on your website, use the National Guard a lot. - Anyone Remember - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:32 am: ===You would call them out even to hunt down violent criminals. Ill look around to see if its elsewhere. The work sometimes made him uncomfortable. - 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. bromination of cholesterol mechanism,
