{"id":29212,"date":"2012-03-21T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T11:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29212"},"modified":"2012-03-21T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T11:44:15","slug":"spodofora-admits-his-buffoonery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29212","title":{"rendered":"Spodofora admits his buffoonery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/article\/20120320\/NJNEWS\/303200087\/Stafford-mayor-admits-he-never-served-Vietnam?odyssey=mod|mostview\">a link to an article about the council meeting last night<\/a> in New Jersey of John Spodofora during which he admits he didn&#8217;t serve in Vietnam;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a televised Township Council meeting, Spodofora read from a prepared statement in which he apologized to the public. He explained he regretted anything he said or did that was not correct or factual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLately, there has been a lot of press regarding my military records,\u201d Spodofora said. \u201cFirst and foremost, I have said and implied things that I should not have said. For that, I need to humbly apologize to anyone who was misled.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spodofora was spurred towards the truth by a Navy Master Chief;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it took another veteran, on live television Tuesday, to get Spodofora to confess he was never in Vietnam, something Spodofora had previously said he could not reveal because he was \u201ca spook,\u201d or spy.<\/p>\n<p>Earl Galloway, a retired Navy Master Chief who lives in the township, pressed Spodofora during the public comment portion of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we seek is the truth,\u201d Galloway told Spodofora.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spodofora&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29060\">election website<\/a> has been taken down. Of course, this should serve as an example to Democrats as an example of how to deal with phonies in their ranks. But I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sends a link to an article about the council meeting last night in New Jersey &hellip; <a title=\"Spodofora admits his buffoonery\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29212\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spodofora admits his buffoonery<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212","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=29212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}