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Dems say Cates lied on resume
UPDATE 2: Sen. Gary Cates just stopped by. He produced an Outstanding Young Americans award, which is indeed very different from a U.S. Jaycees Outstanding Young Men of America award.
Cates was clearly surprised that he indeed had the wrong information on his Web site, and said it may have been there unnoticed for more than a decade. “When they put that on my Senate web site, they must have made an error that says it was the U.S. Jaycees,” he said. “That’s just an innocent mistake there.”
He then turned the issue on the Democrats, namely Jason Phillips, who sent out the press release purportedly from the Ohio Senate Democrats when in fact he’s working for Sen. Jason Wilson’s campaign.
“Why is Jason Phillips acting independently, trying to slander my reputation and he’s doing it under the auspices of the Senate Democrats,” he said. “This campaign has a lot of serious issues and I think this is a pretty lame issue for him to bring up”
UPDATE: Senate Democrats say this press release did not actually come from them. The person who sent it, they said, took a leave of absence to campaign for Sen. Jason Wilson. But, the substance of the claim appears to be true.
Brad Gemeinhart, director of communications and interim executive vice president of U.S. Jayncees, said his organization has never issued an award that fits the description offered by Cates.
Original post:
Press release from Ohio Senate Democrats:
State Senator Gary Cates of Butler County claims to have received awards which he did not receive.
Senator Cates lists on his state senate website that he won the US Jaycees Outstanding Young Men of America Award in 1983 and 1985. The name of this award was changed to the Ten Outstanding Young Americans in 1985 (since they let women join in 1984). Jaycees Outstanding Young Americans award is very prestigious. They only give out 10 a year across the entire nation.
According to the Jaycees website: The Ten Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA) project exists to recognize and honor ten Americans each year who exemplify the best attributes of the nation’s young people, aged 18 through 40. The Ten Outstanding Young Men program was officially adopted in 1938 and has been conducted annually since 1940.
People who have been awarded this before include: President Bill Clinton, Elvis Presley, Senator Daschle, Al Gore, President Kennedy, President Nixon, President Ford, Henry Kissinger, and others. Below is Cates’s website:
http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_04.html
However, Cates is not listed in the list of past honorees (a complete list):
http://www.usjaycees.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=51
Cates is running for the 4th Senate District against Kathryn Bridgman.
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Cates says he has the awards:
“The allegations made by Senate D’s are completely false.”
He said he was nominated seemingly at random for the awards, and paid to receive the awards and a directory of others who received the awards. Similar to Who’s Who.
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