Santorum may regret vote on vets' funding

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16524522&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478569&rfi=6

U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's re-election team might have jumped the gun a bit when it sent out a press release earlier this month touting the leadership team for Veterans for Santorum.

Included on that list was Beaver County deputy coroner Lloyd "Skip" Haswell, who served three years in the Marine Corps and spent 14 months in Vietnam.

Haswell is also president of Beaver County's Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 862 and a district director for the Vietnam Veterans of America.

However, on March 16, Santorum voted against an amendment to a budget bill that would have provided steady funding for veterans health care, a move that did not sit well with Haswell.

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Haswell said he's been trying to get an answer from Santorum's people on why the senator rejected the amendment, but his calls have been ignored. Consequently, he pulled out of the Veterans for Santorum, saying he can't campaign for someone who "votes against veterans" then can't take the time to explain himself.

[yourout]

1. Would love to see him squirm if asked about this in a press conference.

This lieing POS needs to be thrown out........yesterday.

[napi21]

2. OOPS! Rickey screws up again! Must be hangin' out with the

the Shrub too much and the stupidity is contagious!

[Canuckistanian]

3. They must be busy at Santorum Exposed

There's some new hypocrisy or outrage to be reported almost every week.

http://santorumexposed.com/

[sandrakae]

4. He needs time to think up a lie. You shouldn't be supporting him anyway.

[Inland]

5. Santorum's the worst.

Even if you took away all the theocratic man on dog social wedge issue positions that he nurses, even if he weren't connected with crooked charities and fundraising, he'd STILL be a lightweight unworthy of office.

[salin]

6. and ignore the "pro tort reform" - but wife files a law suite

for, iirc, hundreds of thousands in damages against a chiropractor; and ignore the living in another state and charging local property tax payers for your kids' out of state education costs; just on the personal level the guy is an 'entitlement king' jerk.

[CAG]

7. Shocking!! a repub vote against adequate VHA funding!! This only

happens about six times a day, doesn't it??

No wonder this veteran JUST NOW got the hint, I mean, its such a rarity that a repub would not support VHA funding....
:sarcasm: