DJ Bell sends us a link to an article about how the founder of Special Operations for America PAC, Ryan Zinke, a former Navy SEAL, is under attack from VetPAC’s Dick Klass, vice-president of VetPAC, and a retired Air Force colonel, who is questioning the character of Zinke’s service as a SEAL;<\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard some things about this founder,\u201d Klass continued, referring to Zinke. \u201cIf a guy has had two combat tours and retired as a lieutenant commander, he did not have a brilliant career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Klass, a former Air Force pilot with over 500 combat hours, is referring to claims by former military officials \u2014 who declined to be quoted on the record \u2014 that Zinke left the Navy SEALs acrimoniously after being accused of improprieties surrounding his travel reports in the late \u201890s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, Zinke returned to the SEALs after 9-11 – so those “improprieties” must’ve amounted to a popcorn fart or he never would have been allowed to come back. Klass calls the mere existence of Special Operations for America PAC “swiftboating” in reference to the swiftboat veterans’ sinking of the Kerry campaign in 2004. But, I don’t see how it could apply, since Obama isn’t a veteran and, therefore has no military record to impugn.<\/p>\n
I thought Klass’ name sounded familiar so I scoured our archives and TSO wrote about him<\/a> during the 2008 campaign when he was spewing lies as the Co-Chair of Veterans for Obama Policy Group and hiding behind VetPAC;<\/p>\n
VetPac is truly a vision of nonpartisanship though. They\u2019ve endorsed 28 candidates and only 26 are Democrats. One is a Republican. Who\u2019s still in school. And has no chance of winning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n