Republicans nix ads for Ohio House candidate who lied about Afghanistan deployment

Republican candidate J.R. Majewski is below scorching water by his personal celebration after mendacity about Afghanistan deployment.
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The Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee is yanking $1 million in advertisements for Ohio GOP Home candidate J.R. Majewski after it was revealed his claims about serving in Afghanistan after 9/11 have been false.

Majewski’s obvious deceit was outlined Wednesday in a bombshell report by the Related Press, which obtained navy paperwork that contradict the candidate’s marketing campaign path claims of serving in Afghanistan throughout his time within the Air Pressure.

Following the AP report, the NRCC canceled their plans to run scheduled TV advertisements in assist of Majewski simply weeks forward of the midterm elections

The navy paperwork present that Majewski, who presents himself as a fight veteran, spent six months at an air base in Qatar, an American ally, serving to to load planes and noticed no lively fight.

He as soon as described not showering for 40 days because of a scarcity of working water whereas allegedly deployed in Afghanistan and repeatedly used his veteran standing as a key part of his marketing campaign for Congress.

J.R. Majewski was by no means deployed to Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist assaults, regardless of making the declare central to his marketing campaign for Congress.

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Precise fight veterans took offense at Majewski’s claims.

“Veterans have performed a lot for this nation and if you declare to have performed what your brothers and sisters in arms truly did to construct up your status, it's a disservice,” Don Christensen, a retired colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Air Pressure, advised the AP.

Majewski didn’t straight reply to questions on his Afghanistan service claims, the publication stated.

As an alternative, he stated he was proud to have served the county.

“My accomplishments and report are below assault, in the meantime, profession politician Marcy Kaptur has a forty-year report of failure for my Toledo neighborhood, which is why I’m working for Congress,” he added.

Majewski talking with veterans on the VFW Put up 2529 Annual Corn Roast in Sandusky, Ohio on Aug. 20, 2022.

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Majewski, a strident Trump supporter, is working towards longstanding Democratic incumbent Rep. Marcy Kaptur in Ohio’s ninth Congressional District, which has been just lately redrawn to favor Republicans.

Kaptur, who has represented the Toledo space since 1983, bashed her opponent over his navy misrepresentation.

“The concept anybody, a lot much less a candidate for the US Congress, would mislead voters about their service in fight is an affront to each man and lady who has proudly worn the uniform of our nice nation. J.R. Majewski owes every of these heroes a full rationalization about his deception,” Kaptur stated in an announcement.