{"id":29315,"date":"2012-03-29T14:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29315"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:39:47","slug":"votevetss-concern-isnt-really-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29315","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets&#8217;s concern isn&#8217;t really veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this video from VoteVets&#8217; campaign to support the President&#8217;s &#8220;clean energy program&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRxIIxxQRE4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video used Iraq War veterans as puppets to push the idea that if we started burning unicorn farts instead of oil in our cars, we could get out of the Middle East. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17784\">At the time, over two years ago, we questioned<\/a> the motives of VoteVets&#8217; expenditure of a million bucks to run that ad campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the efforts of the good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2012\/02\/votevets-reaped-heavy-backing-from.html\">OpenSecrets<\/a>, we now know what Soltz&#8217; motivation was. See, VoteVets never released the source of the funding and as a 501(c)(4) they aren&#8217;t required to do so. So Open Secrets searched through tax filings of environment organizations and turned up this nugget;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Sierra Club gave $670,000 to the liberal VoteVets Action Fund, and the NRDC Action Fund donated $500,000. The largest total came from the Alliance for Climate Protection, the group founded by former Vice President Al Gore: $2.6 million, research by OpenSecrets Blog has found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, just like these other organizations who act like they care about the troops, all VoteVets cares about is money, as demonstrated by this ad which requires a suspension of common sense in order to believe. They didn&#8217;t do anything to actually push a military-friendly program, but they used veterans as props to push a liberal, environmental agenda funded by the towering intellect that is Al Gore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this video from VoteVets&#8217; campaign to support the President&#8217;s &#8220;clean energy program&#8221;? The video used &hellip; <a title=\"VoteVets&#8217;s concern isn&#8217;t really veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29315\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VoteVets&#8217;s concern isn&#8217;t really veterans<\/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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29315","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=29315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}