VoteVets doesn’t care about dead veterans

We’ve bumped up against that corrupt organization that purports to represent veterans run by Princess Jon Soltz that is called VoteVets. They claim to have 300,000 members, most of whom have never served in the military and most of those count dual membership in MoveOn.org. VoteVets claims to be a non-partisan organization, but when I asked them a few years ago which Republican they have supported, they answered “Chuck Hagel” even though Chuck Hagel has never been in a political race since the existence of Votevets. I once caught Jon Solz collaborating with IVAW and Veterans for Peace in a pre-election strategy in 2009 to fool veterans into voting for Obama. So now we have Obama, how much do veterans matter to Soltz and VoteVets?

What should be their priority in the last few weeks in regards to veterans, would you say? I, personally, would think that the corrupt treatment of veterans by the Veterans’ Affairs Department would be somewhere near the top of the list, wouldn’t you? Well, not at VoteVets – they have more pressing issues to use your good name and selfless service to advance;

All of the Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) are pounding the table and demanding Secretary Shinseki’s resignation, but at VoteVets you only hear crickets;

It should at least be on their news page, right? Wrong!

So what are they concerned about?

In regards to that issue that they don’t seem to care about, that being the scandals at the VA, I should probably point out that when Shinseki went and took that job, he hired (now congresswoman) Tammy Duckworth on his staff. Duckworth had been a member at VoteVets and she cleaned out the staff of writers at the old VoteVets blog, VetsVoice and took them to the VA with her. 5 writers from VetsVoice went to the VA to run their new media organization. So, you can see how it might be considered some sort of incestuous relationship between the VA and VoteVets and why VoteVets doesn’t feel a need to put the interests of veterans above the interests of their parent organization, MoveOn and the Obama Administration. By the way, all of those writers have left the VA and none have come back into the fold at VoteVets.

I should also point out that in Harry Reid’s last campaign for his Senate seat, VoteVets ran campaign ads for him despite the fact that, using their own definition when referring to Dick Cheney, Harry Reid was a draft dodger since he used draft deferments to avoid military service. The money that they spent on Reid’s campaign, could have gone to real veterans’ campaigns, but somehow Reid was more important. Just like the renewable fuels issue is more important than the Veterans Affairs Department negligence in the deaths of veterans. At VoteVets.

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