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Facing off against a veteran, congressional candidate Sara Jacobs is under fire for 'crusty old Marine' comment
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Feb 22, 2018 06:02pm |
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| Category | Interview |
| Author | Joshua Stewart |
| News Date | Thursday, February 22, 2018 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A congressional candidate running to represent a district with the West Coast’s largest Marine Corps base is under fire for comments she made about a “crusty old Marine,” when several of her opponents are veterans.
In a profile in Cosmopolitan magazine, Democrat Sara Jacobs, 28, of Encinitas, told an audience member at a campaign event, "It's true. I'm not a crusty old Marine," when asked about the district’s large military population.
The magazine placed the comments in the context of a question by an audience member about candidate Doug Applegate, 64, of Vista, who was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1974 and deployed in both the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Applegate, also a Democrat, served both on active duty and as a reservist before retiring in 2006 as a colonel.
Jacobs’ comment created and “awkward moment” and the crowd mostly responded with silence, Cosmo reported.
Jacobs’ campaign told The San Diego Union-Tribune that she didn’t mean any offense, and that the article took her statement out of context. According to her campaign, she was repeating language used by the questioner.
“This comment was made to someone who jokingly referred to himself as a ‘crusty old Marine’ and then taken out of context. If any Marines are offended, I truly am sorry," Jacobs said in a statement from her campaign.
Cosmpolitan told the U-T it stands by its account. |
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