The VFW does right
About a week ago, I found out that the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Political Action Committee
made some very strange recommendations when they endorsed some political candidates including Barbara Boxer, Alcee Hastings, Barbara Lee, Steny Hoyer, Barbara Mikulsky, Chris VanHollen, John Dingell, Chuckie Schumer, Pat Leahy and Patty Murray.
Well, a lot of people contacted them and they listened. The VFW-PAC has been disbanded.
From Mr. Wolf at
Breitbart's Big Government:
BIG WIN! VFW (Finally) Does Right By Members
You spoke.
You were heard.
This, was the right thing to do:MEMORANDUM
______________________________________________________________________
National Council of Administration
Richard L. Eubank, Commander-in-Chief
Date: October 14, 2010
_____________________________________________________________________
I have reviewed the Political Action Committee (PAC) Board of Directors' response to our request to rescind this year' s Congressional endorsements. I disagree with their assessment.
It is now evident to most of the VFW leadership, both National and especially the departments, that the VFW has been subjected to extreme negative publicity throughout the nation, and the recent endorsement decisions have, in fact, harmed the VFW' s reputation and future ability to fulfill our mission.
I cannot let this erosion of public support for our great organization continue. The apparent lack of the committee to address these concerns will lead to a proposal by me, as Commander-in-Chief, to amend the by-laws at the 112th National Convention for the purpose of dissolving the PAC. Meanwhile, under the authority granted to me as Commander-in-Chief in section 619 of the VFW National By-Laws and under section 620 of the Manual of Procedure, I am withdrawing all PAC all PAC appointments effective October 15, 2010.
Accordingly, I' m asking the council for a vote of "no confidence" in the VFW PAC as indicated on the enclosed ballot.
There you have it. The PAC refused to back down. So, the Commander had no choice but to shut down the PAC. Apparently, behind the scenes, he was not able to get them to rescind the endorsements, thereby necessitating closing it down completely. While I'd like to have seen was the PAC remove the endorsements; maybe, by 'proxy', the Commander can now do that. See, hideous candidates who have a long history of NOT supporting those in uniform are trumpeting their VFW endorsement:Asked after her speech about McCain's objection, Boxer merely smiled and replied: "I'm so excited to have the VFW endorsement. I couldn't be more thrilled."
Late last week, the Ladies Auxiliary pulled all their funding of the PAC- which, I'm told, was a considerable amount of the funds used by the PAC; likely better than 70% of funds raised for it.
Heh -- a nest of progressive vipers stamped out.
Good to see the VFW leadership showing some ... Leadership.
Posted by DaveH at October 18, 2010 8:23 PM