Vets should be wary of CVA pitchforks, torches

[Snaquebite]

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20140523/OPINION01/305230017/Vets-should-wary-CVA-pitchforks-torches

Some interesting points...
But in my 37 years covering veterans’ issues, I have never seen veteran issues used more cynically or politicized more thoroughly than during the past several years. At times the intent seems to be to shake trust in government generally rather than to address veterans’ needs.

In the thick of this is Concerned Veterans for America, posing as a vet advocacy group and being rewarded for it. CVA press releases usually are partisan attacks. Its spokesman, Pete Hegseth, an Iraq war vet and Republican who ran for a U.S. Senate in 2012, is quoted often by major news outlets without mention of press reports associating CVA with the Koch brothers, libertarian billionaires who create public interest groups to oppose big government. That’s fine. That’s protected speech. A CVA spokesman told me last year it don’t reveal donor information.

What should upset vets is the use of select facts about VA and its programs to reinforce fears rather than give reliable information

[miclo18d]

"I can’t claim to have covered VA medical appointments and wait times with enough depth or regularity to know if there’s gross mismanagement and deceptive bookkeeping at some or many VA facilities. That will be verified, or not, by independent audits and criminal investigations now underway."

The author of the article can't claim to know if the facts are right with regard to the VA, but by God he know s that the Koch brothers are behind the CVA. Perhaps the energy spent figuring that out could have been spent to see if there had been misconduct resulting in the death of veterans at many VA hospitals.

As far as the CVA is concerned... Neeeeeeeeeeeeever heard of them.

[The Reaper]

I guess the author is okay with George Soroos, like the dozens of other rich Dims and socialists using their money to create public interest groups and attempting to influence elections and legislation.

TR