In what may become an ongoing addendum to the Georgia Senate contest, Herschel Walker’s past is now being mined for miscues, and apparently the lode is quite rich:
U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker regularly praises police officers. But was Walker in law enforcement himself?
In at least three speeches delivered before he entered politics, Walker claimed he was, the AJC’s Shannon McCaffrey reports.
“I worked in law enforcement,so I had a gun. I put this gun in my holster and I said, ‘I’m gonna kill this dude,’” Walker said at a 2013 suicide prevention event for the U.S. Army. (Walker was describing a 2001 incident when he took his gun to pursue a man who was late delivering a car. That incident, Walker said, led him to seek mental health treatment.) [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
There’s more at the link. These lies, for that’s what they are, are probably the result of his mental illness. However, the fact that they can be explained doesn’t mean they’re acceptable.
Why?
Because we need our Congressional representatives to be honest: with us and with their colleagues. To do otherwise is to expose a person in a powerful position to forces of leverage, blackmail being the best known.
Can Georgians, in good conscience, vote for such a candidate?
