I read Dean Flugstad’s recent letter. I agree: Rep. Tim Walz supports our veterans well. That is, when it doesn’t get in the way of giving his fellow Democrats extra time to shill for votes.
Walz voted to adjourn Congress one week early, leaving crucial legislation to upgrade the G.I. Bill on the table. "Because of Congress’s inaction," according to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, "thousands of vets will now be left waiting for their rightly-earned benefits."
Yet, as an Army veteran myself, I don’t base my vote solely on veterans’ issues. All us vets once swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. Countless service men and women sacrificed and died to protect and preserve that Constitution.
The Constitution has very few friends in Washington nowadays. I wonder how any former soldier in good conscience could subordinate our sacred document to ramming through Nancy Pelosi’s radical agenda of taking over the auto industry, fighting against businesses’ 1st Amendment free speech rights while being in the unions’ pocket, and forcing Obamacare on a loudly unwilling majority of voters.
We the people can do better than Tim Walz, a veteran who should know better, but doesn’t seem to.
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Robert L. Jones
Rochester
