Spodofora admits his buffoonery
Beretverde sends a link to an article about the council meeting last night in New Jersey of John Spodofora during which he admits he didn’t serve in Vietnam;
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.
“Lately, there has been a lot of press regarding my military records,” Spodofora said. “First 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.”
Spodofora was spurred towards the truth by a Navy Master Chief;
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 “a spook,” or spy.
Earl Galloway, a retired Navy Master Chief who lives in the township, pressed Spodofora during the public comment portion of the meeting.
“What we seek is the truth,” Galloway told Spodofora.
Spodofora’s election website 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’m not holding my breath.
Category: Politics
Problem for Mr. Spodofora, however–Google cache is your friend, and those claims he made are still available.
…cryptographer who spent the Vietnam War in an office or attached to submarine duty in the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas.
Again, he might have been a “rider”, but was NEVER permanently attached to any boat. Even the rider part is kind of questionable, given any lack of Navy Expeditionary Medal or unit awards in his record.
Being a CT is a tough enough job and worthy of respect. Why, for the love of Christ and all things holy do people need to embellish this shit? Seriously?
An qpology to the veteran’s widow against whom he was running will be forthcoming, I presume.
Agree with Sparky. CT is a difficult rate to get into as it is, even as a tech doing maintenance, because of all the classified gear you work on, and where and when that gear is located. This guy had to pass a background check to get into the rate too, and keep a clearance.
There is nothing to be ashamed of in what he did while on active duty, and quite a bit to be proud of.
A concern for me here is the fact that we now have another member of a community trusted to keep critically important secrets who’s been proven to be not very trustworthy or honest after all.
As I recall, we’ve had a few others like that over the years. Some of them didn’t exactly do our nation any favors.
I this case, it’s probably nothing to be concerned about. But I wish we knew for certain.
Hondo,
Oh I fully agree. I well remember the Walker spy scandal when that hit the news. He compromised a great deal of the stuff I was involved with, and could very well have tipped the outcome of a clash between the US and Soviet Navies in the Soviet’s favor, and that is no idol consideration.
It is very likely that much of our Naval Communications systems were compromised, including highly-classified material involving both boomers and ASW plans, the SOSUS system, and other intelligence systems.
Why we don’t hang those bastards is beyond me.
WARNING TO ALL POSERS and IMPOSTERS: Be cafeful of those Retired US Navy Master Chief Petty Officers. Great job to all who outted this POS!
IMHO we need to keep the Republic/Democrat identifiers out of any discussion of Stolen Valor…BOTH parties have been found to have equally eggregious cases and frankly (and I’m a lifetime Republican), it is my experience that Republicans tend to gloss over such infractions perhaps as much if not MORE than Dems. In fact, one Republican Congressman (who is a pesonal friend) tried to address the problem of the VA paying benefits to nearly 1,000 RVN POWs (there are only about 550 living RVN POWs) and nearly 300 Gulf War POWs (there were only 21 POWs in that war) and was told by Party leadership to back off…”You are a Freshman (Congressman)…be quiet, don’t make waves. WE (Republicans) are perceived as the military-friendly party, and we don’t want to do anything to upset that.” That is pretty much a direct quote. Stolen Valor is a CRIME…the last person do make similar claims as this one (Vietnam Vet vs. Vietnam Era Vet) is now a sitting (Democrat) Senator. At the same time, an equally eggregious case in Illinois fared no better, that man is a sitting (Republican) Senator. BOTH parties have their share of con men, thieves, and Stolen Valor perps. This is a CHARACTER issue, not a political one.
Concur, Doug–but as a conservative I’ve found we don’t tend to look very highly on those of our own who commit such frauds, whereas in the case of some recent Democrats who have been exposed (Blumenthal) they dismiss it or at the very least downplay any wrongdoing.
Either way is wrong, but what makes it worse in some circles is the failure to correct the issue. THAT is the ultimate sin, IMO.
True sparkey…but Republicans were no less dismissive of Mark Kirk. And I can tell you this, if the Republican Leadership had their way back in 2006, there would be NO Stolen Valor Act. It was one of my wife’s biggest disappointments and she often noted, “Here I was, and active and life time Republican who wrote this bill, and my own party fought it because the bill was introduced by a Democrat Congressman.”
In one meeting with then Congressman Bob Beauprez (A good Republican friend), she told her, “We (Republicans) simply can’t allow a Freshman, in the minority, in a vulnerable district, to get credit for passing a major piece of legislation.” Of course, Bob ultimately proved to be one of our best advocates, something that according to later conversations with his wife Claudia, resulted in him getting smacked down by his own party. In the end, Pam had to literally BLACKMAIL the Majority Whip (Congressman Blunt of Missouri) to finally get the SV Act to the floor of the house.
There are veterans on BOTH sides of the aisle (in fact the only MOH recipient in Congress is a Dem and the most decorated veteran (Webb) in Congress is a Dem. When it comes to military service, we need to remember there are plenty of dedicated people on both sides of the aisle, just as surely as there are scumbags on both sides.
No doubt, Doug–thanks for the eye-opener.
Christ, but I hate politics.
Me too. Our experience with the SV Act left us both very disillusiioned. I’m encouraged by the recent bi-partisan effort to finally get Peralta properly recognized. THAT ONE is a perfect example of how our members of Congress should put aside their differences and work together to see that the RIGHT THING is done. Maybe there’s hope.
Respectfully Mr. Sterner, while the right thing may occasionally be accomplished, a thousand years and more of human history and politics shows that there really isn’t any hope that it will ever be any different than it is right now. Politics does not, and never will, attract any appreciable number of quality or usefully talented men or women, it overwhelmingly attracts the ego centric and power hungry. It will always be the job of the governed to wholly and completely ride heard on those we elect, regardless of party.
And having said that, I want to send an immense thank you to you and your wife for the job you do in helping to protect the honor of the very best our country does have to offer.
Thank you. 🙂
@#6… Absodamnlutely! That is the main point that I got from the story. Don’t want to be in the wrong with them and piss them off… that’s for damn sure!
He had also claimed to be a Vietnam Navy SEAL