{"id":91248,"date":"2019-09-25T08:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91248"},"modified":"2019-09-25T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T12:21:33","slug":"florida-lawmakers-seek-to-expand-stolen-valor-laws-to-include-political-and-business-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91248","title":{"rendered":"Florida Lawmakers Seek to Expand Stolen Valor Laws to Include Political and Business Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/masked-man.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91249 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/masked-man-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/masked-man-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/masked-man-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/masked-man-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/masked-man.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The website <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/florida-law-stolen-valor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TaskandPurpose.com<\/a> reports that Florida lawmakers are attempting to expand the state&#8217;s Slolen Valor Laws to include political and business gains.<\/p>\n<p>It may be just me, but the current state law doesn&#8217;t seem to be deterring the amount of Stolen Valor cases coming out of Florida.\u00a0 What seems to be new is that it would be considered a felony.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State Rep. Anthony Sabatini is pushing for expansion of the state&#8217;s stolen valor law, making false claims of military service or awards for political and professional gain a third-degree felony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, doesn&#8217;t the followign sound familiar?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One such occasion he frequently talks about while campaigning, Sabatini said, was Rosario&#8217;s 2016 bid for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Rosario <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/lake\/os-groveland-mayor-purple-heart-20161018-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted to exaggerating his military service <\/a>when he put on his campaign website that he was awarded a Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Rosario had photos of himself wearing a Purple Heart hat and later said that he had applied for the medal. On the bronze star claims, his campaign said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/lake\/os-groveland-stolen-valor-20161021-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he&#8217;d been awarded the Southwest Asia Service Medal<\/a>, which has two small bronze-colored stars emblazoned on it \u2014 not the prestigious medal awarded to soldiers who showed heroic or meritorious achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in the city elected him mayor a few weeks later, though his tenure was marred with legal challenges to his eligibility to hold office because of a felony conviction and he was eventually removed by the city council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, those little bronze stars designating another award &#8211; separate and apart from the Bronze Star Medal (BSM).\u00a0 This is something that always gets past the goalie when talking to civilians that don&#8217;t understand the distinction, which is a huge one.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, we wish them luck and hope it passes and does a lot of good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website TaskandPurpose.com reports that Florida lawmakers are attempting to expand the state&#8217;s Slolen Valor Laws &hellip; <a title=\"Florida Lawmakers Seek to Expand Stolen Valor Laws to Include Political and Business Gain\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91248\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida Lawmakers Seek to Expand Stolen Valor Laws to Include Political and Business Gain<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":91249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,408,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-stolen-valor","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91248","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91250,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91248\/revisions\/91250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}