Political Ads Use Veterans Again

Veterans' Care Emerges As A Key, Bipartisan Issue In Campaign Ads
NPR
by BRIAN NAYLOR
September 10, 2014

There aren't really any unifying issues in this year's midterm elections, except for one: the treatment of the nation's veterans.

In 2010, it was Obamacare that dominated the airwaves. This year veterans, and the Veterans Affairs scandal, have risen to prominence in both parties' ads.

"It has been the one big breaking news story of 2014 that's actually reverberating in campaign ads in a widespread way," says Elizabeth Wilner, vice president of Kantar Media Ad Intelligence, which tracks political advertising.
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Here are some of the videos.
Vietnam Veteran talking about having PTSD and suffering in silence.

This Rick Allen video is terrible since he clearly does not understand that members of congress have had since 1946 to fix the VA. That is part of their job but they didn't do it for decades. We've all heard the hearings covered by CSPAN and we paid attention all along.

The Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives was authorized by enactment of Public Law 601, 79th Congress, which was entitled "Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946." Section 121(a) of this Act provides: "there shall be elected by the House at the commencement of each Congress the following standing committees": Nineteen Committees are listed and No. 18 quotes: "Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to consist of 27 Members." This Act has since been amended so that there are now 22 Standing Committees in the House of Representatives. The number of Members (Representatives) authorized to serve on each Committee has been changed from time to time. There are currently 29 members of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Congress was warned about the impending VA crisis. Yet, Bruce Braley did nothing. Instead of leading the way on legislative reforms to improve the lives of veterans, Braley skipped 79% of VA committee hearings. He even skipped a hearing to attend three different fundraisers. Braley was AWOL when veterans needed him. Call and tell Rep. Bruce Braley to reform and fix the VA.