{"id":81634,"date":"2018-09-05T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81634"},"modified":"2018-09-05T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:55:51","slug":"amazon-founder-donates-10-million-to-get-more-veterans-elected-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81634","title":{"rendered":"Amazon founder donates $10 million to get more veterans elected to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mast\"Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., walks to a meeting with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill on July 14, 2017. Mast, a combat veteran and bomb disposal technician, lost both legs in an IED explosion in Afghanistan in 2010. <\/p>\n

Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is donating $10 million into a political action committee (PAC) dedicated to getting more veterans elected to Congress. <\/p>\n

The donation comes just two months before the contentious November midterm elections, and is a major funding and publicity boost for the PAC veteran advocacy group With Honor, which has already endorsed a bipartisan slate of 33 House candidates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News<\/a> reports group founder Rye Barcott tells how the Bezos family’s donation supports With Honor’s idea of building a \u201ccross-partisan coalition\u201d of lawmakers who can overturn the partisan infighting in national politics today.<\/p>\n

Bezos, has not made any similar major campaign donations in the past. The With Honor fund has a stated goal of creating \u201ca government that works for and is trusted by Americans, where principled veterans represent a significant percentage of elected positions at all levels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I generally disagree with Bezos’s left-slanted activities, this donation to a PAC dedicated to getting vets into politics seems like a good idea. Until I think of Tammy Duckworth, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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