{"id":44587,"date":"2014-04-23T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44587"},"modified":"2014-04-23T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:46:56","slug":"another-political-attack-on-a-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44587","title":{"rendered":"Another political attack on a veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked the other day about the attack on gubernatorial candidate and Iraq veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44344\">Anthony Brown<\/a> by perfumed prince Doug Gansler and the attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44359\">Tom Cotton<\/a> by Mark Pryor in the Arkansas Senate race. Now, in Alaska, Democrat Mark Begich puts out the following ad against Marine and GWOT veteran Dan Sullivan who went to work for the Bush White House and was called to active duty for two years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gumluhuEffk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gansler, Pryor, nor Begich have any military service, and apparently, they don&#8217;t respect the service of their opponents, we can only guess at their opinions of their constituents&#8217; service. Thanks to Chief Tango for the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2014\/04\/22\/Democrat-Candidates-Belittle-Opponents-Military-Records\">Breitbart<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, I can&#8217;t find any evidence of VoteVets supporting either Sullivan or Cotton, but VoteVets claims to be non-partisan. I asked them once if they had ever supported a Republican veteran for office and they said that they had once supported Chuck Hagel, however Chuck Hagel never ran for office after the founding of VoteVets, so&#8230;I guess the answer to my question would be &#8216;no&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked the other day about the attack on gubernatorial candidate and Iraq veteran Anthony Brown &hellip; <a title=\"Another political attack on a veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44587\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another political attack on a veteran<\/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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44587","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=44587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}