VoteVets.org: OUTRAGEOUS: GOP attacks Duckworth, not "standing up" for vets, Iwo Jima Vet prevented from VOTING

SUPPORT OUT VETERANS! 
THERE IS NO EXCUSE! 

Please add your name to VoteVets.org: 

http://www.votevets.org/

Over 20,000 veterans, military family members and VoteVets supporters have added their name to our petition calling on Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin State Legislature to overturn the "Wisconsin Voter ID Law" that leaves retired veterans locked out of the polling place. 

Add your name before midnight tonight when we close this petition. You can do that here: 

http://www.votevets.org/

We're going to compile the list of signatures and send it over to Governor Walker's office. Let's show him the eyes of a nation are watching and hoping they change this discriminatory law and start accepting veterans affairs cards as "acceptable proof of identity." 

All my best, 

Jon Soltz 
Iraq War Veteran & Chairman 
VoteVets 

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Last month, Iwo Jima veteran Leo Bradley went to his local Wisconsin polling place to cast his vote in a statewide election. He took the trip with wife and his veterans affairs card in hand, but was told that the card was not an "acceptable proof of his identity."

Only an active duty military card would be good enough.

Here's the truth: as a number states change their laws to make it harder for everyone to vote, veterans, especially retired veterans who no long carry active drivers licenses, are often left out in the cold.

That has to change:

Sign our petition calling on Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin State Legislature to change the "Wisconsin Voter ID Law" to include a veterans affairs card as an accepted form of identification at polling places across the state. 

Leo Bradley's aunt, Justice Anne Walsh Bradley, happens to sit on the state's Supreme Court, which is how this issue got our attention. But how many veterans -- Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike -- without powerful relatives have had their right to vote taken away from them, and how many more will be turned away at the polls this November?

Justice Bradley wrote in her letter to Governor Walker, "My Uncle Leo served during [Iwo Jima], which has been described as one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. ... Now my Uncle Leo fights another battle -- the battle to be able to vote in his hometown of almost 60 years."

We're happy to join Uncle Leo in his fight against discriminatory voter ID laws. And if you add your name today, we'll make sure Scott Walker knows where veterans, military family members, and VoteVets supporters stand on this issue.

Sign our petition calling on Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin State Legislature to change the "Wisconsin Voter ID Law" to include a veterans affairs card as an accepted form of identification at polling places across the state. 

We disagree with Scott Walker on a number of important issues, that much is clear. But this should be an issue everyone can come together on and do the right thing by our retired veterans.

All my best,

Jon Soltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets

WHO DOESN'T LOVE TAMMY DUCKWORTH! 

REPUBLICANS!

Earlier today, the NRSC -- the arm of the Republican Party charged with electing Republicans to the U.S. Senate -- sent out a tweet accusing Tammy Duckworth of not "standing up" for veterans.

Tammy Duckworth lost both of her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Iraq. She continued her service in the Illinois Army National Guard and worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs -- fighting for veterans -- for almost five years. 

 

Mark Kirk has been relentlessly attacking Tammy as being soft on terror and not working for veterans. 

All my best, 

Jon Soltz 
Iraq War Veteran & Chairman 
VoteVets