“...retired U.S. Army major...”
This has been a major and intentional effort by the Left to find people with military experience to run for office on the Left.
They think (and with some justification) that there are many people who hear that someone served in the military, and they conclude they are reliable and conservative...when they aren’t.
They have been vamping for every single little percent of votes they can get and this is just one part. I encountered it in my travel out of state to Maine, and I was curious about their candidates.
A good example of this move by the Left was Jared Golden, a DEMOCRAT running for the house in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.
From the website at: https://jaredgoldenforcongress.com/
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MEET JARED GOLDEN
Jared was born and raised in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Following the September 11th attacks, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. After returning home, Jared had three jobs, working nights and weekends. He attended Bates College and then served as an aide to Senator Susan Collins.
In the State Legislature, Jared represents his hometown of Lewiston, and works across party lines to get things done. In Congress, Jared will continue working hard, every day, to help Maine families. Jared and his wife, Isobel, live in Lewiston.
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I happened to be in Maine leading up to the election, and I saw some ads on television for him. Nowhere in the ad did it mention he was a Democrat. (And if you go to his web page above, NOWHERE does it say he is a DEMOCRAT. And...you can see he was aligning himself with Susan Collins, a Republican (albeit a squishy one)
It showed him shooting a rifle at a target and talking about guns and stressing his military service in a way that definitely led you to believe he was a 2nd Amendment rights advocate...and...a conservative.
Out of curiousity (I don’t live in Maine) I looked him up, he is against conceal carry, for a gun database, and got a “D” rating from the NRA.
I was flabbergasted. I know Leftists lie and conceal, it is what they do.
But this was so misleading, I even thought “Hey, here is a decent candidate...” and then when I investigated further...well, you learn the truth. Read about his stances when you drill down in his website, and he is far Left. It really bugged, me, but...he missed getting elected by a few thousands of votes, apparently.
I found out that this element of military service was obviously part of a known deliberate and concerted effort by the Left. Disgusting.
I bet he was a “Fobbit” during his deployments.
Yes, I read about this strategy quite a long time ago. People with military experience with ties to the far left politicians/swamp critters.
So while POTUS tries to drain the swamp, they send out their baby swamp critters to come back and repopulate the swamp.
Also Soros trying to get control of each Sec. of State for the battle ground states.
At least Golden boy actually served in combat. Soros and Steyer money basically bought a congressional seat in SW Pennsylvania for a Marine Corps veteran whose entire service consisted of 14 months as a desk jockey in Okinawa.