Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar Jesse Sullivan said he Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. I was dismissing how persuasive it is to cite them in trying to move the needle state wide. I also view the ad as reinforcing the stolen valor issue. John Howard. - Proud Sucker - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 11:11 am: Not sure it directly applies to Sheriffs who are elected. I think Id prefer he just yada, yada, yada me and tell me he likes the lobster bisque. Who is his running mate? - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:08 am: It always creeps me out when evangelicals go into to politics to save us. 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. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. 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. Im not cop-trained, Im military-trained, he said, during a debate in Cross Plains, in January. - 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. Theres been some CW that Sullivan in the race hurts Bailey had helps Irvin, but I think youre right that it threatens to go the other way. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. When the Culture Wars Come for the Public Library. 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. His service, to my knowledge, has not been questioned, but his ire was raised by some of Jesse Sullivans campaign claims. Burkett began FOIA-ing with abandon. Now, with just days to go, hes trying anything he can to grab voters attention in a last-minute hail mary. 2019 valor thieves; Ken Woerheide . 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. This ad will play well in Peoria County and south. Well, he doesnt, I would end those on day one. - Steve Polite - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:00 pm: For a pretend soldier he doesnt know his history very well.. Other than showing that 6 sheriffs from counties most Illinoisans have never heard of support him, dont know what the point of this commercial is. Shipley is one of the most prominent figures in the field, the closest thing it has to an influencer. The guy would usually be polite, but the interactions felt more like interrogations than like conversations. No money down, no payments until next year. D. - here we go - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:09 am: Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. Sullivan: Absolutely not. Units being trained to respond to riots in the Cities. You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. In fact, he had served as a private in the Army, gone AWOL in Germany, and received an other than honorable discharge. I stole valor. Seems like we need an honest debate on which side of American best suits our group survival. He talked about his sniper training and the bullets hed taken for his country. After The Hunt for Red October, everyone was a submariner, Don Shipley, who investigates fake Navy SEALs, told me. A D, I guess? He was a darn good deputy, Terry Joy, who had been the sheriff of Callahan County since 2013, told me. In his ad, Sullivan compares Chicago to. McMaster, US Army (ret.) 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. In the online age, lies about service are harder to sustainand easier to punish. 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*. Even the man of faith bit seemed forced. And finally, I proudly served our nation in uniform doing counterinsurgency work in Helmand Afghanistan with the US Department of Defense. - Roadrager - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:12 am: - New Day - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:14 am: Oh my. Its like cancelling someone onlineyou cant fix the bigger problem, so you just attack this stranger., Shipley partly blames himself for seeding these confrontations. Stolen Valor Act of 2005 - Wikipedia 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. Support Renewable Energy Credits. - girl in the woods - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 4:06 pm: This is a crazy word salad- sounds like Trumps speeches. Adding Sullivans consultant firm worked for Glenn Youngkins gubernatorial campaign and they ran a very similar TV ad during that race. Last February, YouTube suspended Shipleys channel for harassment. Documenting and debunking fakers has become easier as more of our lives have moved online. 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. The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, written in part by Pam Sterner, was introduced the year that millions of filmgoers watched Wedding Crashers, in which Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilsons characters lie about being Purple Heart recipients. My father served 30 years in the Air Force and I have regard for servicemen. Schimpf was born on an Air Force base in the Metro East, graduated from Annapolis Naval Academy, then graduated from law school and served 20 years in the US Marines, serving as the chief American adviser to prosecutors in Saddam Husseins trial. A small amount of competition for Irvin, who has the advantage of Griffins millions, at least on paper. 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. 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? Adding The final version of the TV spot is here. - Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:55 am: ===You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad.===. When Sterner learned of a fraudulent Medal of Honor claim, hed pass the information along to Cottone. Im no fan of Sullivan, or any of the Rs running, but theres no need to be dismissive. Republican candidate for governor Jesse Sullivan stands in a soybean field and points to his home in Petersburg, Illinois, in a campaign video. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Seems to be a LOT of wrong-headed thinking in politics these days. 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. they ran a very similar TV ad during that race, Multiple dead, more than 30 hospitalized after blowing dust leads to accidents on I-55. - Oswego Willy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:45 am: If Sullivan wanted to serve, he shouldve joined a branch of service. 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 Irvin lies/cant be trusted line could work, if he had about $10-$15 million to burn it home, although that would likely just benefit Bailey. Dr. Anthony Fauci on Becoming an Activist Within Government. - 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. - Arsenal - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:48 am: The thing is, the anti-Irvin language is strong. There are real peoples lives behind these stats. 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. Id have to check the laws, but it certainly seems like Mr. Government Ethics is using local government resources for political purposes. Thirty Years Later, Its Still Burning. 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. Is it the every man for himself, arms-a-gettin, vigilante, frontier strain? LOL. GOP candidates for governor debut TV spots blaming Pritzker for crime rise =And then also the kids in schools and keeping them out of school= 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. Sullivans campaign responded with a 300-word background statement which claimed Sullivans Army team leader never left the base. The better move would be to change the subject. Military Phonies was already looking into Jowerss background. Not the job of the guard to be our daily police force. - muon - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:05 pm: I think the Sullivan campaign is trying to find a lane. - 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. "I felt I was doing something really pretty . Are they going to try to out right wing each other because they have tothese former Democratic voters/supportersto win todays GOP base? 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. This pro-law enforcement ad might not be so, um, pro-legal. Is the New York I used to know gone for good? was an overdiagnosed condition cooked up by antiwar leftists; that accusations of war crimes in Vietnam were overstatedbut what captured readers attention was his exposure of military fakers. 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. When Bart went to introduce himself to his new neighbors, no one answered the door. They probably say it was posted as a CapFax rate the ad. A Fire Started in Waco. Welp, if youre pulling it, thats not playing anywhere? - 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. Did Sullivan really live in downstate Petersburg, as he claimed, or did he live in the San Francisco area? Thereve only been thirteen Medals of Honor awarded by the Air Force in history. GOP Gubernatorial Candidate's Past Comes Back To Haunt Him - He Founded Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. - Grandson of Man - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:48 pm: Sullivan is throwing down a strong marker for other GOP candidates. - Dotnonymous - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:18 pm: Jesse Sullivan declares American cities War Zones requiring National Guard soldiers to hunt down criminals. United States v. Alvarez - Wikipedia underscored the importance of DOD civilians to the overall effort, saying, Civilians who volunteered to serve at the front in Afghanistan were critical to protecting our nation from jihadist terrorists who use mass murder as their principal tactic in a war against all civilized people. I mean when PQ won his election, didnt he lose just about all the states counties (except for a couple)? Hes been surprised by how many older women watch, too. Mocked up buildings and opposing forces. Bart Kendrick, whose family has lived in the county since the nineteenth century, takes particular notice of vehicles. The videos, with their blend of vigilante justice and public callouts, hit several social-media sweet spots; watching them makes me feel both rapt and queasy, particularly when the accusers anger feels disproportionate to the situation. He should find a career where they can be put to use. In the evening, the truck had been replaced by a patrol car. With the US Supreme Court about to finally rule against abortion, Illinois voters need to know where their politicians stand on the most important issue of our lives. So, Sullivan has no control over that. To Bart, it seemed obvious that Foley didnt live there but was merely using it as a place to switch out his vehicle after work.