{"id":78122,"date":"2018-03-08T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78122"},"modified":"2018-03-08T09:08:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:08:53","slug":"cannabis-candidate-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78122","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Thomas Wolf; “Cannabis candidate” under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Benjamin Thomas Wolf<\/a>, who calls himself the “cannabis candidate” in the campaign for an Illinois Congressional seat because he has put the legalization of marijuana at the center of his campaign, you know, in spite of the myriad issues we face in this country these days.<\/p>\n

In addition to smoking pot in his campaign ads, he also makes statements that might lead people to believe that he served in Iraq in the military as well as statements that indicate that he was an FBI agent;<\/p>\n

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He’s never been in any branch of the military and Wolf says in public that he failed the agent testing at the FBI Academy. According to Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople in the military get upset when I say I served in Iraq. The military doesn’t have a patent on the word ‘served,\u2019\u201d he told Politico.<\/p>\n

In a news release last week, Wolf\u2019s campaign also identified him as a \u201cformer FBI agent,\u201d despite contrary claims by the agency.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the FBI told the Chicago Tribune that the candidate worked at the agency as \u201ca non-special agent professional support employee\u201d rather than an agent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, now he faces charges of abuse from a former campaign intern;<\/p>\n

\u201cHe actually hit me, threw me to the ground, put his foot on my chest. He was really angry. He grabbed my face,\u201d Katarina Coates, who interned for Wolf\u2019s campaign, told Politico.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI thought it was normal. I cannot explain the logic. It seemed like he cared about me when he did that. After that time he stood on my chest, he went and took me for chocolate cake. I kind of associated it with his caring.<\/p>\n

“There were times I would ask him, ‘Do you ever regret hitting me?’ He would say: ‘No, but I’m relieved when you put your head down so I don’t have to do it again.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No surprises here. He looks like his picture should be in Webster’s under “douche bag”, and folks who mislead about their service are usually abusive to people around them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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