OH-Sen: Rob Portman Embarrasses Himself on Memorial Day
Submitted by Senate Guru on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 5:21pm.
{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.}
Two-time George W. Bush appointee Rob Portman made an ass of himself over Memorial Day Weekend:
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rob Portman stopped at the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Sunday, May 24, to "meet and greet" veterans at the Patriot Freedom Festival, but was quickly informed by VA officials that campaigning on federal property is illegal. ...
Several veterans told Portman that they were concerned about cuts to the VA budget during the Bush administration when Portman was head of the White House Office of Management and Budget. ...
Jim Crane, a former national officer for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, told Portman that during the last four years, veterans have seen the processing time for veterans to qualify for VA health care benefits increase from 70 days to more than 300 days. He also said the VA mental health clinic is no longer staffed on weekends because of a lack of funding.
To summarize: two-time George W. Bush appointee Rob Portman illegally attempted to campaign on federal property at a VA Medical Center, and then was told by veterans how the budget policies that Portman himself implemented as a Bush appointee created hardship in these veterans' lives. On Memorial Day Weekend.
