Veterans Group Targets Mitch McConnell, Richard Burr In New Ad Campaign

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A new ad campaign by national veterans group VoteVets.org Action Fund takes aim at GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Richard Burr (N.C.). Their qualm: Both senators talk about the importance of supporting services for veterans while voting against increases that would pay for such services.

"The denial of care to our veterans is a national disgrace," McConnell said, as the Senate minority leader also called on President Barack Obama and Democrats to join Republicans in passing legislation aimed at fixing flaws in the Veterans Affairs Department.

While McConnell merely suggested that a change in leadership at the VA "might be a good thing," he called former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's tenure an embarrassment and stated that the department itself is "in a period of dysfunction."

Burr, who is the ranking member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, went so far as to pen a highly criticized open letter calling for Shinseki's resignation while also chastising leadership of various national veterans organizations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/veterans-ad-mitch-mcconnell_n_5447576.html