{"id":29805,"date":"2012-05-03T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29805"},"modified":"2012-05-03T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:14:01","slug":"armed-services-chair-calls-on-governors-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29805","title":{"rendered":"Armed Services Chair calls on Governors&#8217; help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buck_McKeon\">Howard &#8220;Buck&#8221; McKeon<\/a> (R) is calling on the Presidentially appointed, bipartisan Council of Governors <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/defcon-hill\/policy-and-strategy\/225007-mckeon-looks-to-governors-to-drum-up-sequestration-opposition\">to support his efforts<\/a> at heading off the arbitrary sequestration cuts set to literally decimate the defense budget. McKeon has been a frequent and vocal advocate for vets, active and reserve service members and a robust, healthy defense apparatus in general. Previously the Council of Governors made a successful push to trim back cuts to the Air Force National Guard in their states. NIMBY politics, maybe, but effective and prudent. Now McKeon hopes that this organization of ten governors can act as a relief force for the rest of the military.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d say that outside of their local needs most of these politicans would happily throw the military to the wolves. After all, just as Tip O&#8217;Neill once said, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_politics_is_local\">&#8220;All politics is local.&#8221;<\/a> The good news? These politics are local. Of the ten Governors on the Council all five of the Democrats, a group normally ambivalent to defense spending as it doesn&#8217;t yield demographic patronage for their party, are the Governors of states with large military communities and\/or facilities. That means jobs and money.<\/p>\n<p>These states are Washington (PSNS\/Naval Base Kitsap\/JBLM\/Naval Base Everett), Maryland (NSA\/Aberdeen\/Andrews\/contractors galore), North Carolina (Bragg\/Pope\/Lejeune\/Cherry Point), Oklahoma (Tinker\/Sill), Hawai&#8217;i (MCB Hawaii\/Pearl Harbor) and Missouri (Whitman\/Leonard Wood). This may be the best chance yet for a bipartisan commission of the President&#8217;s own choosing to rebuke the pending cuts. If you live in any of these states you should be looking up the contact info of both your Governor and your State Rep and demanding they back Rep McKeon. With the election looming Obama must scramble to preserve jobs, even if they come from the &#8220;evil&#8221; military-industrial complex. This is exactly where we should be hitting him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard &#8220;Buck&#8221; McKeon (R) is calling on the Presidentially appointed, bipartisan Council of Governors to support &hellip; <a title=\"Armed Services Chair calls on Governors&#8217; help\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29805\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armed Services Chair calls on Governors&#8217; help<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,189,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-defense-cuts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29805","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\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}