{"id":4709,"date":"2022-05-19T01:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2022-05-19T01:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:21:47","slug":"long-shot-los-angeles-mayoral-candidate-craig-greiwe-touts-lie-detector-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/long-shot-los-angeles-mayoral-candidate-craig-greiwe-touts-lie-detector-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Shot Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Craig Greiwe Touts Lie Detector Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Craig Greiwe Posing in John Grogan’s Polygraph Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Craig Greiwe<\/a>, currently favored to lose the 7 June 2022 Los Angeles mayoral primary election by a wide margin, has submitted to a polygraph “test” and is challenging other candidates to also do so, as Travis Schlepp reports<\/a> for KTLA. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s no secret that many voters are skeptical about trusting the word of their elected politicians. One candidate vying to be the next mayor of Los Angeles says he\u2019s putting his money where his mouth is and is challenging his opponents to do the same.<\/p>

Craig Greiwe, a business exec and one of 12 people hoping to succeed Mayor Eric Garcetti as L.A.\u2019s highest public official, held a press conference Wednesday to announce a challenge to his competitors: answer important questions about your campaign, while hooked up to a polygraph test, and share the results with the public.<\/p>

\u201cThere is no difference between an empty promise and a lie. They are all lies,\u201d Greiwe said in a news release. \u201cThere has to be an end to the lies. I am willing to stand on the steps of City Hall and go on record under lie detector about anything and everything the voters and political journalists want to know.\u201d<\/p>

Greiwe is considered a longshot in June\u2019s mayoral election, with both U.S. Rep. Karen Bass and businessman Rick Caruso sporting sizeable leads in most polls, but the former chief strategy officer for marketing firm R&C PMK is hoping his apparent transparency will resonate with voters.<\/p>

The mayoral candidate announced the results of his polygraph test during a press conference at City Hall Wednesday morning. Greiwe said he completed the lie detector test on May 11 and provided an image of him apparently strapped up to the machine, as well as a document with his purported results.<\/p>

He answered four questions as part of the polygraph test:<\/p>

\u2022 Have you ever been under a criminal or ethics investigation or inquiry?
\u2022 Do you want to be more than mayor, such as senator or governor?
\u2022 Will you put the city\u2019s interests above your own personal and business interests?
\u2022 Do you believe that Roe v. Wade is settled precedent?
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Greiwe answered \u201cno,\u201d \u201cno,\u201d \u201cyes\u201d and \u201cyes\u201d to the four questions. John Grogan, who is listed in the document as a senior polygraph examiner for CertifiedPolygraph.com, described Greiwe\u2019s responses as having \u201cno deception indicated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Greiwe’s polygraph proclamation is a cynical publicity stunt. As a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, Greiwe is presumably aware that polygraph “testing” is not a reliable way of determining whether a person has spoken the truth. (Indeed, it has no scientific basis<\/a> at all.) Furthermore, had Greiwe not passed his polygraph with John Grogan, he could have kept it quiet, sought out another polygraph operator until he obtained the desired result, and then only announced that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Leo Grogan in his sole appearance on the Dr. Phil<\/em> show in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It should be noted that John Grogan, who conducted Greiwe’s “test,” has a particularly poor reputation even amongst polygraph operators, a fact of which Greiwe should have been aware had he done any due diligence. The late Jack Trimarco<\/a>, a career FBI special agent and polygrapher who in retirement performed for the Dr. Phil<\/em> show, denounced Grogan as a “fraud.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Greiwe, currently favored to lose the 7 June 2022 Los Angeles mayoral primary election by a wide margin, has submitted to a polygraph “test” and is challenging other candidates to also do so, as Travis Schlepp reports for KTLA. Excerpt: It\u2019s no secret that many voters are skeptical about trusting the word of their …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[588,260,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-4709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-craig-greiwe","8":"tag-john-grogan","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}