{"id":20927,"date":"2010-10-22T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20927"},"modified":"2010-10-22T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:44:59","slug":"vas-moran-military-service-isntpublic-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20927","title":{"rendered":"VA’s Moran: military service isn’t public service"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Examiner<\/a>, the usually drunken brawler who Virginia’s 8th District continues to return to his Congressional seat, Jim Moran, locked in a close battle for that seat, disparaged the military service of his opponent.<\/p>\n

Speaking to members of the Arlington County Democratic Committee on October 6th;<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat [Republicans] do is find candidates, usually stealth candidates, that haven\u2019t been in office, haven\u2019t served or performed in any kind of public service. My opponent is typical, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Moran\u2019s opponent happens to be Col. Patrick Murray (US Army-Ret.), who served 24 years in uniform, was deployed to four different combat zones, including Baghdad, as part of the 2007 troop surge under Gen. David Petraeus, and was even shot at by foreign combatants. If that isn\u2019t public service, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s really disgusting about that? Moran claims to have endorsements from the Disabled American Veterans and Military Officers Association of America – neither organizations endorse political candidates<\/a>. Of course, the district is shot-through with military voters since the district includes several military bases and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

So, apparently Moran will try to attract military voters with phony endorsements of their organizations, but he doesn’t think their service rises to the level of his own – Moran’s military-age life was spent on college deferments during the Vietnam War. <\/p>\n

To answer your inevitable question; Yes, Moran was endorsed against Murray by the VFW PAC<\/a>. You can endorse Murray at his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Examiner, the usually drunken brawler who Virginia’s 8th District continues to return … VA’s Moran: military service isn’t public service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}