Thelma Drake Wrongly Challenges Glenn Nye's Heroism

Cross-Posted at: Enough is Enough Virginia

In today’s Daily Press story on the 2nd Congressional District race between Rep. Thelma Drake (R) and Glenn Nye (D), Drake raised questions about accounts of Nye’s heroics while working at the U.S. Embassy in Macedonia:

Drake wondered aloud how a “a very junior member of the State Department” was so instrumental in the rescues and said that so far, her staff had been unable to find news clips or State Department officials to verify the story Nye used on the campaign trail and in commercials.

Thelma may want to consider firing some members of her staff, but in the meantime they can suspend their search.  On July 18, 2002, the Virginia Pilot profile on Glenn Nye said (empahsis added):

And thanks to the contacts he’d forged with the Macedonian people and authorities living in the northern part of the country near Kosovo, where some of the fiercest fighting raged, Nye was responsible for evacuating 26 Americans during the height of the crisis.

He also secured the release of an American held by an armed insurgent group. For those efforts, he was awarded a “Superior Honor Award” from the European Bureau of the Department of State. He also got a meritorious honor award from the U.S. embassy in Skopje for his contacts and analysis of the ethnic Albanian political community.

I hope this clears things up for Thelma Drake.

Full article here.

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