{"id":12133,"date":"2024-08-15T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12133"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:58:44","slug":"tim-walz-stolen-valor-obvious-says-congressional-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12133","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz\u2019 \u2018Stolen Valor\u2019 Obvious, Says Congressional Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/walz-stolen-valor-obvious-says-congressional-candidate\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cwhitewashing\u201d of stolen valor claims leveled against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz insult servicemembers, who know better than any how to spot a \u201ccoward\u201d among them.<\/p>\n

So says Pat Harrigan, the Army Green Beret vying for North Carolina\u2019s 10th Congressional District seat in Washington, D.C., during a visit to the VFW Post 92 in Lower Burrell, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh, on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Appearing alongside Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump\u2019s running mate on the Republican ticket, Harrigan said media claims that Walz misspoke when he said he deployed to war defy reason and logic.<\/p>\n

During more than seven minutes of remarks, Harrigan implied that it was no accident that Walz printed the wrong rank on coins that he himself distributed. Nor did it seem likely that he never received final paperwork committing his unit to a deployment in Iraq, just before he quit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe it is unforgivable to do what Tim Walz did,” he said. “When among others the command sergeant major who replaced him, the mother of one of his unit’s fallen soldiers and the unit’s chaplain are calling him a coward, how dare Tim Walz call it simply partisan attacks?<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd quite frankly, how dare you, the media, dismiss the men and women who actually know Walz\u2019 character?\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice President Kamala Harris chose Walz<\/a> as her running mate on Aug. 6, concluding a two-week search that considered other Democratic party favorites like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, and Arizona U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly.<\/p>\n

Harris ascended to the top of the ticket after President Joe Biden bowed out<\/a> of the race on July 21 and promoted her as his successor. The party officially nominated her on Aug. 2 via a virtual roll call<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since then, the duo has struggled by most accounts sans polling. Harris is criticized for dodging interviews and open question press conferences. Meanwhile, Walz faces scrutiny over his record during COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

His military claims, however, have arguably resonated the most.<\/p>\n

Video shows Walz claiming he retired as a command sergeant major from the National Guard and that he had carried \u201ca weapon of war\u201d in war.<\/p>\n

Harrigan said he understands if people, particularly those who have not served in the armed forces, think it is \u201cnitpicking\u201d when \u201cour veterans community reads his words and scream, \u2018stolen valor.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout serving and deploying, I might not get it either,\u201d he said as Vance, the first post-9\/11 veteran on a major party ticket, stood behind him. \u201cBut I\u2019m hoping that at the very least, by the time I sit down here today, you\u2019ll understand why we are so passionate in our united voice that Tim Walz is a coward, who betrayed his men at their greatest time of need and is not fit to serve the United States of America as vice president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrigan said Walz’ actions show he “does not care about the men who will pay for his mistakes,\u201d noting that even his unit\u2019s chaplain called him a coward.<\/p>\n

He described Walz as an exaggerator and bad leader who abandoned the men and women under his care to further his political career.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, to the media listening, I appreciate that you can simply write off a remark from Tim that included, \u2018When I deployed to war\u2019 as a misspeak,\u201d he said. \u201cTo those of us standing in this room, that cannot be a misspeak. It\u2019s impossible for it to be a misspeak.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrigan first deployed to Afghanistan at age 23, leading 350 Americans at an air-access-only combat outpost. He returned after volunteering for Special Forces and becoming a Green Beret.<\/p>\n

On Super Tuesday<\/a>, Harrigan emerged from a close primary defeating state Rep. Grey Mills, R-Iredell. He faces Democrat Ralph Scott Jr. and Libertarian Steven Feldman on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/walz-stolen-valor-obvious-says-congressional-candidate\/ The \u201cwhitewashing\u201d of stolen valor claims leveled against Minnesota…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12134,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions\/12134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}