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Seems Jo Ann Hardesty of the Portland City Council is getting some more news attention, this time from being accused of stolen valor. You may remember mention of her before – she is an extremely left-wing lady on the Porland, OR City Council. Now, if you stand out as left-wing in THAT mess you have to be something special, huh? She received national attention a while back, when on her way home from a casino she disagreed with her Lyft driver – for refusing to roll up an open window (which was rolled down per Lyft’s Covid precautions.) Poor guy was damned if ya do, damned… His solution to an obstreperous passenger was to drop her at a\u00a0 gas station. Hers was to call the cops.<\/p>\n
“Well, I\u2019ve got a Lyft driver that decided he would just drop me off at a filling station. Well, I\u2019m not getting out of the car, in the dark, at a filling station, not happening – all because I asked him to put the window up. I\u2019m not leaving.”[<\/a> Wiki<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kind of a surprised HE didn’t call the cops first.<\/p>\n
Anyway, she’s described as a defund-the-police (except when you want one) Antifa-supporting liberal firebrand who seems to repeatedly make an ash of herself. She has been targeted for large personal debt (maybe she should take lessons from Stacey Abrams?), channeling funding to friends\u00a0 and dubious contacts.\u00a0 But her latest row is with an unnamed self-described veteran who claims she has misrepresented her Navy service career and wants answers:<\/p>\n
According to the man, he had partnered with a non-profit to file a Freedom of Information Act request for her military service records. He cited a 2018 Portland Mercury<\/a> endorsement of Hardesty which claimed \u201cyour campaign had given them paperwork. They said you were honorably discharged in 1979 before continuing in the reserves into 1984.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of that is a lie,\u201d the man stated. \u201cSo, I’m just wondering what information you actually gave the Portland Mercury?\u201d<\/p>\n
The man went on to say, \u201cBut that’s not the only misinformation I found\u2026 In other interviews and on the city\u2019s website<\/a> you have said you served aboard the Samuel Gompers from 1978 to 1983.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I said, I have your military records. That’s a lie. You served aboard for 13 months.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man then stated, \u201cI’m going to move off the military records for just a moment and talk about your fake college degree, Ms. Hardesty. On LinkedIn, you claim a college degree from a Baltimore Community College, but on election filings, you admit, in the 2018 election filings for city council\u2026\u201d but was abruptly cut off by Hardesty, who asked Mayor Ted Wheeler, \u201cShould I allow him to continue to lie about me on the public record?\u201d<\/p>\n
The man objected to Hardesty attempting to silence him, to which Wheeler replied, \u201cLet’s do this. You finish and then the commissioner gets to respond. How about that?\u201d<\/p>\n
The man agreed but Hardesty got up and stormed out of the room.<\/p>\n
The man continued by saying, \u201cSo back to the fake college degree on LinkedIn, Commissioner Hardesty claims an Associate\u2019s of Business from the Community College of Baltimore, but in the 2018 city filing for city commissioner, she admits that she dropped out and she does not have a college degree.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Post Millenial<\/a><\/p>\n
I am shocked – SHOCKED! –\u00a0 that a politician might lie about their past record. But it seems to me that since she made her service a matter of public record, she should have proof of what she claims. Any vet I know has their 214, for instance. Disclosure – all the reporting on this is from a right-wing reporter with whom she has an on ongoing “adverse relationship”, and corroboration from other sources is almost non-existent at this point.<\/p>\n
In the long run, this may matter little –
Baron Samedi<\/del> Ms.Hardesty trails her election opponent in the polls 49 to 22%, so unless she pulls a Biden, she’s history.\u00a0 Hopefully Portland will serenade her out with:\u00a0 Roy Clark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"