{"id":75534,"date":"2017-10-24T07:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75534"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:24","slug":"meier-drops-out-of-mayoral-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75534","title":{"rendered":"Meier drops out of mayoral campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75439\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DavidMeier-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DavidMeier-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DavidMeier-349x333.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DavidMeier.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastvillagemagazine.org\/2017\/10\/23\/mayoral-candidate-david-meier-ends-campaign-as-fbi-debunks-medal-of-honor-claims\/\">East Village Magazine<\/a> reports that the valor thief mayoral candidate for Flint, Michigan, David Meier, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75438\">we wrote about last week<\/a>, has dropped out of the campaign due to his wild fairy tales about his military service;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI went to city hall today to withdraw from the mayors race and was informed that it was too late,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI have decided to stop campaigning and doing interviews. I do not plan to participate or be involved in the process any longer.\u201d  He did not admit that his claims were false.<\/p>\n<p>Meier\u2019s claims,  detailed in two EVM stories last week, drew the attention of the FBI after numerous calls and emails from veterans and contact with the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, an organization comprised of actual Medal of Honor recipients headquartered near Charleston, S.C. It maintains archives of service, communicates with recipients, and offers a range of services and supports.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Special Agent Mike Sanborn in Washington contacted EVM on Friday and Monday to report an FBI  investigation into Meier\u2019s situation was underway but that he was not at liberty to offer details of the investigation.  Asked if Meier\u2019s  claims were untrue, Sanborn said, \u201cI think we know that \u2014 it\u2019s a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanborn confirmed Meier has no record of military service. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adios, muchacho. <\/p>\n<p>FBI Special Agent Sanborn, a Marine Corps veteran of Desert Storm and Somalia who focuses on stolen valor investigations for the FBI, got pretty talkative with the reporter and the long article is pretty interesting from a stolen valor aspect. <\/p>\n<p>The field of 18 candidates for mayor of Flint has been thinned for the recall election. I hope the Flint police have scheduled welfare checks on Mr Meier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Village Magazine reports that the valor thief mayoral candidate for Flint, Michigan, David Meier, &hellip; <a title=\"Meier drops out of mayoral campaign\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75534\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meier drops out of mayoral campaign<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75534","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=75534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}