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. Kevin Mays. He kept having odd interactions with strangers. - 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? Last February, YouTube suspended Shipleys channel for harassment. In December, Bart and his wife, Amber, read in the local paper that Leroy Foley, a police officer in the nearby town of Clyde, was running for sheriff of Callahan County. 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? That just adds to his pro-COVID views though. ==. Foley repeatedly invoked his time in the Army. 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. And, for sure, this military combat claim needs to be cleared up right away. Veterans are responding to Richard Irvins latest attack ad on Jesse Sullivan, calling on Irvins campaign to pull the ad and apologize to families who have lost loved ones serving in military or civilian roles abroad. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:08 am: It always creeps me out when evangelicals go into to politics to save us. Hope leaves. 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. Help Illinois Colleges And Universities Go Green. The Silicon Valley angle took hold in segments of the mainstream media. 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.. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:14 am: Its again pinging the stolen valor want, someone who has this idea hes been called to protect and serve, when in actuality a commercial with a highlighting a candidate at night with police vehicles, Sullivan should run for sheriff somewhere or ask Bailey, Irvin, Rabine, or Schimpf to appoint him director of ISP. Cyril Pelkey. Even sending civilian law enforcement officers to an area they dont normally work is not ideal and is awful for an officers home life. People lie about their service in YouTube clips, Facebook posts, and text messages; researchers have exposed a man who claimed on a dating site to have been on the SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, and another who posted photographs of himself wearing a Green Beret uniform on his wedding day. You always want to put a pretty young lady in a video if you can swing it. He started telephoning suspected liars, baiting them into telling ridiculous stories, and exposing them. 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. Help Illinois Colleges And Universities Go Green. Until then businesses leave. 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. 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. 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. - Steve Polite - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:00 pm: For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well.. Some Callahan County residents were ready to forgive him. Between Sullivan's mission in Iraq and Irvin's calling in the Guard, the stolen valor primary is officially underway. - The Dude Abides - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:15 am: Ill give it a C-. Shipley tried to keep things more or less professional, but his fans could be less scrupulous. The average game times of 2 hours, 36 minutes are down from 3:03 in 2022. 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. He photographed the trash can by the road to show that its contents never changed. Huh? Paid for by the Democratic Governors Association. - Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:15 am: Given his extensive military background, I am shocked that he doesnt even have a basic understanding of what the Guard does and what they are trained to do, and is instead opting for mindless rhetoric. If they say theyre fully pro-life, theyll lose, because this is a pro-choice state. - 47th Ward - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:15 pm: Last bit of free advice for Sully. 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. 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. The nearly seven-hundred-page book explored many of Burketts preoccupationsthat P.T.S.D. - Red Ketcher - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:34 am: 1969 Ft. Thanks for telling us who you are Jesse. Kinda awkward that his LG running mate hasnt commented yet. He added that he, like Foley, was an Airborne Ranger with combat wounds: I served my country, I took a bullet for my country. - The Fellow Edgar - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:48 am: What is Sullivan doing in this race exactly? - 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?==. I also view the ad as reinforcing the stolen valor issue. I felt I was doing something really pretty dirtyleading this woman on to help her incriminate her husband so the F.B.I. Most stolen-valor cases dont involve master criminals but, rather, average men who want to be treated as if they were extraordinary. In Foleys public filings, he listed the neighboring house as his residence. 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 better move would be to change the subject. I am concerned that he may not have received [the medals] but is implying that he has, she wrote. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. 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. 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. 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. - 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? Is Irvin also this strongly opposed to pandemic mandates? Illinois is a pro choice state. Ill look around to see if its elsewhere. Saying he was called to protect and serve in this context implies that he is/was a police officer. It didnt for the Br!t!$h in the 20th century at various locations. Absolutely. I think theyre unAmerican. And these top-down mandates from Governor Pritzker who thinks he knows best. 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. It will be interesting to see if Davison can help Sullivan's campaign. It is courageous to serve in combat environments, in any capacity. Traditionally many are local and state cops in their day jobs so Sullies deployment takes real cops off their street to do his manhunt. - Micky Finn - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 9:13 am: I used to think Rezin was a moderate. He has outlined the actions of a dictator. 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. He presented no ideas or solutions for the state of Illinois, which is more of the same for a campaign that seems to have no relationship whatsoever with the truth. Hes, like, I screwed up, I told a little lie and it got big, Shumway, a veteran of the Air Force, said. There are real peoples lives behind these stats. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Seems to be a LOT of wrong-headed thinking in politics these days. In-depth political coverage, sports analysis, entertainment reviews and cultural commentary. It doesnt make sense.. - 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*.=. 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. - Pundent - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:56 am: Wouldnt the first step be a fundamental shift in the Guards focus and training? /s. The guy would usually be polite, but the interactions felt more like interrogations than like conversations. Grifters lie about being war heroes, then steal money from women they meet on dating sites. All that does is make me think the candidate wants me to be afraid. 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. John Howard. - 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. Then people started bringing up the comments that Jowers had made during a debate with Foley. They undertake the mission at great personal risk. A Fire Started in Waco. 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. 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. He also stated that he was a military veteran that was shot while serving his country., In response, Jowers posted an image of his DD 214, but it was oddly cropped, with key information outside the frame. - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:45 am: ===how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? Notes: Prospects Ed Howard, Alexander Canario and James Triantos take steps in their rehab. (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 . This was pre-social media, and it started going kind of viral, Whitley said. Hood Texas - That began to change in 2004, after an Arizona man was featured in a local newspaper as a highly decorated veteran who had, among other improbable exploits, assisted in the capture of Saddam Hussein. 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. - Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 12:13 pm: On the use of public resources (uniforms and marked vehicles) in the ad, I too find it distasteful and wonder if it might be unlawful. 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. - 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. So are singles, batting average and stolen bases. 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. 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. - Henry Francis - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:07 am: I was not dismissing those 6 counties. Hes trying everything to bury the baggage thats exposed serious contradictions about his past and his record,said DGA Illinois Press Secretary Yael Sheinfeld. In the morning, a pickup truck was parked in front of the garage. Military Phonies was already looking into Jowerss background. - 47th Ward - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Im looking forward to seeing Governor Sullivan riding the CTA after he ends the mask mandate. . This is just so goofythe real winner out of all this is JB Pritzker. Yeah, I was wondering about that. However, they are answerable to their constituents. The Court found that the Stolen Valor Act violated the First Amendment. There were other guys doing this before me, but Im the guy that took it to YouTube, he told me. We are back with Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan. Citizens leave. Justwhat? 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. Jesse Sullivan said he would absolutely use the National Guard to hunt down violent criminals, calls pandemic mandates unAmerican, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan, Multiple dead, more than 30 hospitalized after blowing dust leads to accidents on I-55. The interview is linked, Jesse did not claim to be a veteran. Ask an ISP officer from downstate in a couple of months how they like being rotated in and out of Chicago. What would Sullivan do to get his agenda adopted in Illinois where Democrats are likely to still control the. - Lincoln Lad - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:05 pm: The GOP pool of candidates will make this easy for JB. 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 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. Instead, people called Bart a stalker. I dont want anyone near any levers of power who refuses to protect their citizens during a pandemic. Illinois needs a new Director at DCFS. But one thing I learned from that experience was that many if not most are also civilian police. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Im laughing because it happened a lot, he said. 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. He called the current deputies a bunch of yahoos and mocked them for wearing cowboy boots instead of tactical shoes. This pro-law enforcement ad might not be so, um, pro-legal. Foley was not on the list. He was a darn good deputy, Terry Joy, who had been the sheriff of Callahan County since 2013, told me. Ad Choices. - 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. 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. Dr. Anthony Fauci on Becoming an Activist Within Government. You gotta be entertaining, you gotta be funny, he said. Last night I got a robo-poll that I would presume was commissioned by the Sullivan campaign. The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis. Fire up the bluesmobile, Jake. You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. 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. ), Sterner had never intended to expose fakershe was more interested in the real heroesbut he kept running across them. This is such awful word salad. McMaster, US Army (ret.) So what sets these two apart on crime? They love our country. Military police state is just fine but a three inch piece of cloth to keep people alive s UnAmerican? After Bart buried her, he reviewed his security-camera footage to identify the culprit, then spent several nights perched in a tree with a pistol until he got his revenge. 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. He requested the records of a Green Beret who signed autographs for kids at parades: faker. Im no fan of Sullivan, or any of the Rs running, but theres no need to be dismissive. 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. Sullivan: Absolutely not. When Bart went to introduce himself to his new neighbors, no one answered the door. The memo was produced by afirm founded bythe same consulting group working for Sullivans campaign and that late leadhasnt been confirmedby any other polling. That evening, Jowers, on a call with his supporter Paul Shumway, started weeping. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Is it the all-arms-on-deck, save the ship, community health/resilience strain? - wowie - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:39 am: Jesse Sullivan campaign slogan: Hey, guys look at me - Im still here. That means he doesnt really want there to be a United States., Adding Sullivans problem is that he hasnt addressed this line from his announcement speech. I was raised in the church, as a person of deep faith. - 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. Foleys opponent in the Republican primary was Rick Jowers, a mild, approachable sheriffs deputy with a handlebar mustache. In 1782, when George Washington awarded ribbons and badges to valorous Revolutionary War troops, he was already worrying about pretenders. Txt HELP for help, STOP to end. Spot pulled for typos because only the best people are working on this campaign. Ill say anything to get yer vote. What exactly does JB have to. 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. - 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. - 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. The liar inevitably starts calling him sir. I took lessons from Patton, Shipley said. When he shared his anxieties, Cottone told him that, if a person was lying about his service, he was often lying about more substantial things, too. Griffin should just buy another penthouse. Robert Hayes . This is awful. Welp, if youre pulling it, thats not playing anywhere? - 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. Foleys apparent lie about his residence offended Bart. - Arsenal - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:06 am: ==Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:45 am: If Sullivan wanted to serve, he shouldve joined a branch of service. I dont like the man of faith being called to serve. What year is it?) Last summer, Bart saw something odd at a nearby house. - 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. The only differentiation is outsider. You would call them out even to hunt down violent criminals. Jesse Sullivan was an Army civilian, deployed by the Department of Defense to Afghanistan. But, six years later, in United States v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Xavier Alvarez, a water-district official in Southern California, who had been convicted of lying about receiving the Medal of Honor. We all know what that means, IRVIN LIE: [Sullivan] advocates and supports open borders. Joey Gibson. He wrote that an official at the National Archives told him that he was probably the Archives number one individual FOIA user.. An agent at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service told me that most cases of stolen valor dont involve career criminals. Some guys were just really out for blood, he said. Got it. - Grandson of Man - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:12 am: Rated A- - 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. Through games of Sunday, scoring is up when compared to March and April of 2022. There was no evidence that he was an Airborne Ranger or a sniper, that he had received a Purple Heart or a Silver Star, or that he had been wounded in combat. Breaking Radical Globalist Jesse Sullivan's Stolen Valor Scandal And The Anti-Israeli Magazine He Founded Could Destroy His Candidacy For Illinois Governor:. 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. Culture shapes lies, too. 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. Is it the every man for himself, arms-a-gettin, vigilante, frontier strain? He did his job good, got along with people good. Jowers had worked for the sheriffs office for eight years, five of them as chief deputy.