{"id":81557,"date":"2018-09-02T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81557"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:11","slug":"mike-ritze-embellishing-ways-cost-him-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81557","title":{"rendered":"Mike Ritze&#8217; embellishing ways cost him re-election."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ritze.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ritze-284x333.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ritze-284x333.png 284w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ritze-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ritze.png 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Ritze lost in Primary.\u00a0 Jonn wrote about Mike Ritze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79343\">back in May.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/capitol_report\/broken-arrow-rep-mike-ritze-accused-of-embellishing-military-record\/article_8c292a5b-8d41-573b-a60b-c790f1018e12.html\">Tulsa World<\/a>, Oklahoma Legislator Mike Ritze who represents Broken Arrow has been called out by two of his peers for wearing a Disabled American Veterans cap with a Purple Heart attached on the floor of the chamber;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two of his House colleagues \u2014 Reps. Kevin McDugle, R-Broken Arrow, and Josh West, R- Grove \u2014 are accusing Ritze of embellishing his military record. They say he has been wearing on the House floor the DAV cover \u2014 or hat \u2014 with a Purple Heart insignia, implying that he was a member and had been awarded the medal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also claimed that DAV had given him a honorary membership in the organization. DAV denies that and they\u2019ve asked him to stop using their name in his campaign material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were other factors involved with Mike Titze losing&#8230;but it seems he was not used to being challenged.\u00a0 He was accustomed to being\u00a0unopposed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Broken Arrow state Rep. Mike Ritze lost to Stan May. Ritze became embroiled in his own controversy when claims of \u201cstolen valor\u201d surfaced against him.<\/p>\n<p>Ritze had not seen an opponent of any kind since winning his first term in the 2008 House District 80 Republican primary. Roberts has had only one real test, a 2012 Republican primary, since winning his first term in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I certainly hope his embellishing ways being exposed helped him snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.\u00a0 He just looks like the kind of guy I want to see fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ritze lost in Primary.\u00a0 Jonn wrote about Mike Ritze back in May. According to\u00a0Tulsa World, &hellip; <a title=\"Mike Ritze&#8217; embellishing ways cost him re-election.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81557\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mike Ritze&#8217; embellishing ways cost him re-election.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81557","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}