* Rachel Hinton…

One nonprofit entity created by Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan owes $3,200 to the state of California — plus additional interest and penalties — for failing to file its tax returns for nearly a year, and another of his organizations is currently listed as delinquent in the West Coast state.

In response to questions from a Chicago Sun-Times reporter, Sullivan’s campaign said Wednesday the downstate venture capitalist plans to settle that debt, which it attributed to a “paperwork error,” and work with California’s Department of Justice to “address these administrative filings to achieve good standing.”

“Jesse Sullivan set up a nonprofit that never began operations,” Sullivan’s campaign said in a statement Wednesday. “When notified today that this unused entity had accumulated fees due to a paperwork error, he immediately took steps to address the fee, and is now closing it.

“As governor, Jesse Sullivan will work to cut red tape and make it easier to start and grow organizations here in Illinois.”

That nonprofit, called Alter Investments, is one of two created by Sullivan. Alter Global, the other non-profit that was registered as a charity and public benefit entity, has had a delinquent status in California since February 2020, according to the website of that state’s attorney general.

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* Meanwhile, Sullivan was on WMAY the other day…

Q: In your campaign announcement video, you make reference to having served your country in uniform. Are you in fact, a veteran?

A: So I am not a veteran. I worked actually on the intelligence side of the Army. So I was an intel Army civilian, which was a unique program where they basically wanted to bring people in. So I trained up, you know, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Polk, Louisiana. And then I was deployed, you know, in uniform with a weapon out on combat patrols every day in Helmand, Afghanistan. And my job was mainly getting to know the Afghan local militias that were turning their weapons back on us that we were helping to train up. So my job was to get to know them, try to figure out what the heck was going on on the intel side and then help with military decision-making, essentially advising a brigadier general on what to do in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. So really, really proud of that service for our country. And yeah, just really feel like a lot of the experience has shaped the way I would approach leading as governor of our state.

Q: I don’t want to belabor that. But your your campaign said in a statement to Capitol Fax that you had quote, led combat patrols. Is that accurate? Do civilians lead combat patrols in a war zone?

A: No. So I actually I led our team on combat patrols. And so, no way would I ever want to take anything, I have so much incredible respect for our veterans in my opportunity to serve overseas was one of the proudest things I’ve been able to do for my country. And so in doing that, I was out on, you know, two weeks at a time, I would get out there and I had another analyst, sometimes a social scientist, an interpreter, and my job was a collection efforts. I led our team called the human terrain team. And we would embed with the local units for a couple of weeks. They knew that area better than I did, the area of operation. And so they would lead the combat patrol, I would lead our team on the combat patrol.