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Article: Monahan seeks to set record straight
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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George H. Monahan is no longer a candidate for mayor, but he
still wants to maintain his good name.
Monahan on Monday released a copy of his Navy discharge papers,
known to everyone who has served in the armed forces as a DD-214,
which states that he attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,
Md.
His attendance became an issue in his losing primary campaign
against Democratic Mayor John M. Picard, when opponents claimed that
Monahan did not attend the academy, and the academy could find no
records for him.
"Clearly, this was never an issue to me or in my mind because I
lived it," Monahan said Monday. "I would never try to claim I did
something I didn't do because this was a prestigious ...