Gail sheehy articles
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Montana Democrats call on Sheehy to release hospital report he says he lied about
The strange story of Republican Tim Sheehy’s bullet wound just keeps getting stranger. Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL who is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, recently claimed to the Washington Post that he lied to a park ranger when he said he accidentally shot himself in the arm at a national park in 2015. Instead, Sheehy says, he was shot in Afghanistan three years earlier in a possible episode of friendly fire but never reported the injury. He lied to the ranger, he...
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Letters to the Editor: Praise for Gail Abarbanel, who changed the way we treat rape victims
To the editor: I am very pleased that columnist Robin Abcarian featured the work of Gail Abarbanel, who directed the Rape Treatment Center at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center for 50 years. I was a grant administrator at UCLA in the campus office for research administration when I first became acquainted with her. She was applying for grant funding to support her center’s activities and was unfamiliar with the tedious process of submitting applications through the UCLA campus research office. As...
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Busted: GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy reportedly hired staffer who promoted racist posts
Republican businessman Tim Sheehy, who is running for U.S. Senate in Montana, reportedly hired a staffer whose social media account liked and shared racist posts.The Daily Beast on Saturday published an exclusive piece alleging that the candidate "hired a campaign staffer with social media accounts and public statements emblematic of the fringe far right.""At first glance, Caleb Oriet’s social media accounts look typical of a young member of the fringe, online right, featuring likes and reposts...