Posted on 05/29/2010 6:28:56 PM PDT by Steelfish
Illinois Senate Candidate Admits Claim About Military Award Was inaccurate
By R. Jeffrey Smith May 29, 2010
The Republican candidate for President Obama's old Senate seat has admitted to inaccurately claiming he received the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award for his service during NATO's conflict with Serbia in the late 1990s.
Rep. Mark Kirk, a Navy reservist who was elected to Congress in 2001, acknowledged the error in his official biography after The Washington Post began looking into whether he had received the prestigious award, which is given by top Navy officials to a single individual annually.
The Post's inquiries were sparked by complaints from a representative of state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, Kirk's Democratic opponent in the Illinois Senate race.
Cmdr. Danny Hernandez, the Navy's assistant chief of information, said for several days last week that he was having trouble finding records to clarify the matter. Then on Friday, he said Kirk, an Appropriations Committee member who co-chairs an electronic warfare working group, had changed his Web site to incorporate a different account of the award.
In a message on his blog, Kirk wrote that "upon a recent review of my records, I found that an award listed in my official biography was misidentified" and that the award he had intended to list was given to his unit, not to him individually.
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“the award he had intended to list was given to his unit, not to him individually.”
That’s close enough for politics.
Probably a goner now. No great loss.
But wide enough to have your opponent pummel you.
On the Gotcha Scale, this rates about a .000001. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. It isn't worth it.
Right, it’s all about them anyway and not about those around them.
I’m pretty sure I could tell the difference between a NAM and a NUC and not confuse the two in my personal biography. What a loser.
Why cant the GOP come up with someone to run for Senate in Illinois who can stay in the race?
Is there no Republican with honor left in Illinois?
How can one look up the military record online for any one individual.
Dear God. Stop being stupid, people.
We can’t find one to run for Govorner in Texas.
There will be alot of mud-slinging before November, and that includes opponents bringing to light candidates foibles. The problem is that minor infractions will doom republicans, generally as they should. While, OTOH, major infractions will elevate ‘rats. ‘Rat voters either do not care, or consider the infraction a worthy distinction, or perhaps most common, a bonus because it increases name recognition just enough to put them over the November edge, but not so much that any ‘rat voter probes and drills the problem.
I didn’t intend to vote for the ultra liberal anyway, now I’ll double not vote for him.
Ping
Rats consider lying about the military a badge of honor. They are the side who came up with the “baby killer” line after all.
I will never understand why these guys don’t just post a copy of their DD-214, minus the SSN. Let the form speak for itself.
Idiot
Typical of so many bosses this guy seems to have never bothered looking at his own website. I've always figured they didn't think their websites were important to getting their messages out.
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