VoteVets Ad Hits GOP Senators January 30, 2007
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VoteVets Aims at G.O.P. Senators
VoteVets.org, the group who sponsored controversial ads aimed at vulnerable G.O.P. incumbents last year, is back at it. This time, it is attacking Republican senators from purplish states who have expressed opposition to President Bush’s troop increase but have declined to support the original, harsher Senate resolution condemning the plan.
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(This campaign is remarkably similar to one used during the midterms, when a veteran sitting at a table said, “Republican Congressman [name here] voted to increase his pay while voting to cut health care benefits for veterans like me. That may make sense from where he sits in Congress… But not from where I’m sitting.” The shot panned out to show the man in a wheelchair.)
General Wesley Clark, a potential candidate for the Democrats’ presidential nomination in 2008, is on the VoteVets.org board of advisors, and the new ad is posted on YouTube under his username and his WESPAC also is soliciting money for the ad. Mr. Clark is expected to address, as are the other possible 2008′ers, the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C. later this week.
Today and Tuesday, a group of veterans, including Jon Soltz, the national chairman of VoteVets.org, are holding press conferences in the home states of each senator as the ad is debuted —- a new technique for the group. Local Iraq veterans are meeting the touring group at each location.
Democrats Work January 12, 2007
Posted by faithinwes in national service, poverty.comments closed
General Clark, President Jimmy Carter and Congressman David Price (D-NC) have joined the National Advisory Board of this Democratic national service organization.
Democrats Work . . . Putting Our Values Into Action
We paint schools, clean up parks, and build houses
. . . and sponsor block parties and basketball tournaments and tutor children
. . . and help out at our church bake sales and serve food at soup kitchens.
We are Democrats. We are committed to service. And we put our values into action.
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