VoteVets partisanship noticed in the media

Someone sent me this link to the Seattle Weekly in which someone besides TAH has noticed that VoteVets isn’t as partisan as they let on.

Five members of Vote Vets, a political group that backs candidates who have served in the military, stood behind a podium in a Seattle Center conference room to tell an audience of one (yours truly) that while Patty Murray has been pushing vet-backed bills in DC, Dino Rossi’s record on the subject is “overwhelmingly negative.”

But that’s not true. From the time Rossi entered the State Senate in 1997 to his exit at the end of 2003, there isn’t a single instance of him ever voting against a bill for vets.

Hegdahl says the group is officially non-partisan though so far this year, every endorsed candidate for Congress is a Democrat and last year only 8 percent of the $172,000 donated by by the PAC to various candidates went to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Yikes! I guess being uber-partisan while claiming to be neutral in politics only lasts as long as there’s a Republican in the White House. And that may be why VoteVets representatives are talking to an empty room these days;

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