VoteVets’s concern isn’t really veterans
Remember this video from VoteVets’ campaign to support the President’s “clean energy program”?
The video used Iraq War veterans as puppets to push the idea that if we started burning unicorn farts instead of oil in our cars, we could get out of the Middle East. At the time, over two years ago, we questioned the motives of VoteVets’ expenditure of a million bucks to run that ad campaign.
Thanks to the efforts of the good folks at OpenSecrets, we now know what Soltz’ motivation was. See, VoteVets never released the source of the funding and as a 501(c)(4) they aren’t required to do so. So Open Secrets searched through tax filings of environment organizations and turned up this nugget;
The Sierra Club gave $670,000 to the liberal VoteVets Action Fund, and the NRDC Action Fund donated $500,000. The largest total came from the Alliance for Climate Protection, the group founded by former Vice President Al Gore: $2.6 million, research by OpenSecrets Blog has found.
So, just like these other organizations who act like they care about the troops, all VoteVets cares about is money, as demonstrated by this ad which requires a suspension of common sense in order to believe. They didn’t do anything to actually push a military-friendly program, but they used veterans as props to push a liberal, environmental agenda funded by the towering intellect that is Al Gore.
Category: Liberals suck
Surely, you meant to say…”Was Al Gore”? Right?
Folks, it’s Algore.
And, 3 years after he was immaculated, we’re still told that unicorn farts are the wave, and propellant, of the future.
So, don’t forget to check the tire pressure, and get a “tune-up”.
Their main seed money came from Soros, so that’s all you need to know right there. I have never looked upon them as anything other than a democrat hack group, so there is nothing that surprises me about them.
Nice catch and as Old Trooper alluded to, they are nothing but a leftist front group with Vet on the front of it. I have never seen so much false indignation or as many blatant attempts to use his veterans status to shield from criticism, as that by Stolz and the cadre of VoteVets.