{"id":20506,"date":"2010-09-20T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20506"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:45:06","slug":"votevets-partisanship-noticed-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20506","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets partisanship noticed in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.seattleweekly.com\/dailyweekly\/2010\/09\/vets_push_patty_murray_saying.php\">link to the Seattle Weekly<\/a> in which someone besides TAH has noticed that VoteVets isn&#8217;t as partisan as they let on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five members of Vote Vets, a political group that backs candidates who have served in the military, stood behind a podium in a Seattle Center conference room to tell an audience of one (yours truly) that while Patty Murray has been pushing vet-backed bills in DC, Dino Rossi&#8217;s record on the subject is &#8220;overwhelmingly negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not true. From the time Rossi entered the State Senate in 1997 to his exit at the end of 2003, there isn&#8217;t a single instance of him ever voting against a bill for vets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Hegdahl says the group is officially non-partisan though so far this year, every endorsed candidate for Congress is a Democrat and last year only 8 percent of the $172,000 donated by by the PAC to various candidates went to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes! I guess being uber-partisan while claiming to be neutral in politics only lasts as long as there&#8217;s a Republican in the White House. And that may be why VoteVets representatives are talking to an empty room these days;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/rossi_murray_veterans_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20507 aligncenter\" title=\"rossi_murray_veterans_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/rossi_murray_veterans_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/rossi_murray_veterans_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/rossi_murray_veterans_2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me this link to the Seattle Weekly in which someone besides TAH has noticed &hellip; <a title=\"VoteVets partisanship noticed in the media\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20506\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VoteVets partisanship noticed in the media<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}