{"id":133317,"date":"2022-11-07T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=133317"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:30:24","slug":"clyde-shavers-a-veteran-that-republicans-are-attacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=133317","title":{"rendered":"Clyde Shavers, a veteran that Republicans are attacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“What kind of people would lie about a veteran’s service?” This question showed up on a New Direction PAC campaign advertisement supporting Clyde Shavers. A website, “shaversserved.com” states, “Republicans are smearing the record of a man who has served our country.”<\/p>\n

From the Post Millennial:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

After the letter went public, the Herald\u2019s Editorial Board said in an article revoking their endorsement of Shavers and endorsing his opponent, “Regarding the misrepresentations, Shavers indicated on a state Public Disclosure Commission form and in campaign literature that he works as an attorney; however, Shavers, while he has graduated law school and has worked for a law firm, has not passed the Washington state bar exam, a qualification that the editorial board believes is necessary to make that claim.”<\/p>\n

“Shavers also made statements to the editorial board and in campaign literature that he had served aboard a submarine while in the Navy, before transferring to a public affairs office; however, while he completed some training for submarine certification, he switched to public affairs.”<\/p>\n

“Because of these misrepresentations, and the questions they raise regarding Shavers’ integrity, the editorial board must rescind its recommendation that voters support Shavers for the state Legislature. Candidates for public office, because of the trust that is required to represent the interests of the residents of one\u2019s district and the state, must be held to a high standard regarding the veracity of their record and their positions. Shavers has violated that trust.”<\/p>\n

According to the Lynnwood Times, Shavers’ father Brett also alleged that Clyde “exaggerated his mother’s immigration status, has not experienced homelessness, did not grow up in a farming family, and does not reside in the 10th Legislative District” all of which his son had claimed.<\/p>\n

In the letter, Brett wrote, \u201cThe things he\u2019s saying are not accurate, if not misleading. He\u2019s saying he\u2019s the son of a marine, son of a police officer, son of an immigrant, so it\u2019s if he\u2019s using our credibility to validate his statements. We\u2019ve asked him not to embellish or lie constantly but he just continues. The letter is just a last resort [for Clyde] to please make better decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the revelations about Shavers, more details about his background have been called into question. According to the Center Square, \u201cOn Shavers’ website, he claims that he was “compelled to establish the Yale Coalition to End Homelessness.” However, The Center Square could find no source to prove it exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outlet reported that Yale University has worked with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, which was founded in 1982 and the Yale Hunger and \u201cHomelessness Action Project is a student-run youth homeless shelter that was founded almost 50 years ago, according to the project’s website. As yet, no data is available to show Shavers’ involvement with either program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, The Lynnwood Times obtained Shavers\u2019 Naval files and verified that Shavers was never a US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer as he claimed.<\/p>\n

Despite the revelations, New Direction PAC, an independent spending committee that is funded mostly by Democratic Party and labor-union contributions, claimed on their website and in a new mailing obtained by The Post Millennial that Republicans are smearing Shavers. So far the PAC has spent approximately $250,000 so far this year promoting him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Post Millennial has additional information here<\/a>. The pro Shavers website provides a pro Clyde Shavers spin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“What kind of people would lie about a veteran’s service?” This question showed up on a … Clyde Shavers, a veteran that Republicans are attacking<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stolen-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}