RUTHFULLY YOURS

I got an email last night from Bev Perlson (Band of Mothers) that reported that the VFW-PAC (the political action committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars) is supporting Democrat Ron Klein. Now, just because he’s a Democrat, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t merit the VFW’s support. Of course, being a rich lawyer from Boca Raton doesn’t exempt him either. Neither does the fact that he’s never served a day in the military. Reading his bio, I don’t think he’s ever laid eyes on anyone else in the military.

What makes the VFW-PAC’s choice so heinous is the fact that Klein, the rich lawyer from Boca Raton, is running against former Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. You know Lieutenant Colonel West don’t you? He’s an infantry colonel and a veteran of the wars in the Persian Gulf – you know those FOREIGN WARS? He’s a veteran of a war that was foreign – so I can see why the Veterans of Foreign Wars Political Action Committee wouldn’t support him.

So, of course, i went to the (PDF) list of candidates that VFW_PAC is supporting and I find they’re also supporting Barbara Boxer, Alcee Hastings, Barbara Lee, Steny Hoyer, Barbara Mikulsky, Chris VanHollen, John Dingell, Chuckie Schumer, Pat Leahy and Patty Murray – it’s like a Who’s Who of the folks who have tried to screw the troops and have contributed to the lengthening of the war in the east.

Oh, yeah, COB6, they’re supporting your guy’s opponent, too.

So I have to ask, as a life member of the VFW, who the Hell is running that place over there? I remember the VFW wasn’t all that concerned about the Homeland Security estimate that veterans are a threat to our national security and now I see this. Me, personally, I wouldn’t endorse Alcee Hastings, the impeached judge, for town drunk…so what the hell is the VFWPAC thinking?

Contact information for VFW PAC which is different from any VFW contact information you might have;

VFW-PAC
VFW Washington Office
200 Maryland Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel. (202) 544-5868 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (202) 544-5868      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Fax (202) 544-8495

Email: vfwpac@vfw.org

Faxes and phone calls are better than emails.

This is outrageous! Please call the VFW at 1-202-544-5868.  Email them at: vfwpac@vfw.org http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/10/burn-your-vfw-cards-vote-vets-runs-vfw-pac.html
Dear VFW Staff,I just received an email from a friend who was as thunderstruck and dumbfounded as I am that the VFW PAC has endorsed Ron Klein over LTC Allen West, a decorated Iraq War hero who served in the US Armed Forces for 22 years. We are both New Yorkers who are troubled by the blindness and moral decay of some of our once proud cultural traditions and institutions. Regretably your endorsement has revealed that the VFW is next in the line of dominoes to fall.

LTC West has the record of experience, commitment and proven track record of dedication to serve our country to protect and defend the Constitution and the citizens of the United States of America. When it comes to national security and defense policy it is the obvious choice to pick LTC West over his opponent Ron Klein who has a zero record of military service. Your unfortunate partisan maneuver has relegated your organization to public mistrust and irrelevance. I close the door on the VFW for this regrettable decision and will inform all my Veteran friends to cancel their membership and abandon your organization for the balance of it’s short existence.

Sincerely Phil Orenstein