{"id":64736,"date":"2016-03-08T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64736"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:40:11","slug":"duckworth-ignores-vets-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64736","title":{"rendered":"Duckworth ignores vets issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Duckworth<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I don’t like Tammy Duckworth. I respect her service, but she’s been an incompetent boob since she left the military. Sadly, she lost her legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq. Then she went to work for anti-Bush MoveOn.org enclave, VoteVets. She was the Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs from 2006 to 2009. Folks in Illinois tell me that she saw herself as a figure head rather than take advantage of an opportunity to be a veterans’ advocate.<\/p>\n

When she was hired by Rick Shineseki at the Veterans’ Affairs department, she brought the writing staff at VoteVets over to help cover up the failings of the Shinseki VA. While the VA burned around her, she volunteered to go to college full time while she was drawing a Senior Executive Services paycheck, ostensibly to ferret out deficiencies in the Department’s veterans benefit services. Duckworth used her status as a disabled veteran to shield herself from criticism, instead of actually doing something about the trials and tribulations that veterans in her situation suffer at the hands of a huge bureaucracy. <\/p>\n

NBC Chicago<\/a> reports that nothing has changed since she was elected as the representative in Congress for veterans in Chicago. <\/p>\n

During a radio appearance Monday, Veterans Affairs whistleblowers Germaine Clarno and Dr. Lisa Nee claimed that Rep. Tammy Duckworth did little to respond to their claims of mistreatment of veterans and corruption within the Hines VA.<\/p>\n

According to their allegations, Duckworth was largely unresponsive to evidence related to veteran mistreatment and inadequate investigations conducted by the VA’s inspector general.<\/p>\n

Clarno claimed that, although she approached Duckworth “many” times, the congresswoman did little to respond to her claims.<\/p>\n

“I never felt that [Duckworth] wanted to hear exactly what was going on,” Clarno said. \u201cI really thought going to Tammy Duckworth, that she would be the one who would stand up and say this has got to stop.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone who expected Duckworth to give a rat’s ass about veterans should look at her record. Oh, by the way, she’s facing charges of whistleblower retaliation while she was at the Illinois Veterans Department. Duckworth’s life is about Duckworth, not anyone else. Anyone in Illinois who expects a change in her attitude if she’s elected to the Senate hasn’t been paying attention. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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