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The father of a Democrat running for a seat in the Washington state House of Representatives has accused his son of lying about his military service. Brett Shavers is the father of 10th District candidate Clyde Shavers, who has claimed in his campaign that he served for eight years as a nuclear submarine officer, according to the Everett Herald. The Herald said it spoke to the elder Shavers to ensure it was him who wrote a letter to Republican opponent Greg Gilday. “I have told him not to do embellishments and exaggerations and it continued and continued, it just reached...