I sent the Radnofsky campaign an email asking for her position on various subjects of interest to me. Among other things she sent me this press release. I am not yet on board with Radnofsky, but I am certainly leaning that way. Beats the HELL out of KBH!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
24 June 2005
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*Radnofsky to Hutchison:
Senator, Do Your Homework*
Houston, TX. US Senate Candidate Barbara Ann Radnofsky called on Kay
Bailey Hutchison to do her homework. The Houston, Texas mediator and
lawyer challenging Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) for her Senate seat,
analyzed Sen. Hutchison's June 23 claims concerning funding shortfalls
for veterans, "after learning that the VA is approximately $1 billion
short in 2006."
"We've researched the issue on what the American Legion and others were
explaining in terms of an even larger shortfall earlier this Spring",
said Radnofsky, 48, who is a practicing mediator and lawyer in Houston,
Texas. "I call on Sen. Hutchison to explain why she ignored vital
information explaining the crisis much earlier. Texans deserve a
senator who will do her homework."
"Sen. Hutchison is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. In a floor speech on April
12, 2005 opposing Sen. Murray's Amendment for Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations this year, she confessed to relying on the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs (Congr Record S3457, 3465 et seq), while major
organizations had already uncovered the truth in terms of needs."
Radnofsky continued, "Had the issue of funding for veterans been
presented to me as a sitting Senator, I would have vigorously done my
homework. We expect our Senator to be an independent voice for Texans,
not a rubber stamp for the administration."
"The National Commander of the American Legion (which does not take
sides in political races, nor endorse candidates, but rather is a voice
for veterans and drafted the original GI Bill), Thomas Cadmus, issued a
detailed statement on March 18, 2005 from his office in DC as follows:
'The Senate's budget resolution also ignored my funding recommendations
for FY 2006. Every major veterans' service organization that deals with
the VA health care system every day recommended more than $2 billion in
additional funding than offered by either chamber - without any
budgetary gimmicks. Those young men and women at Walter Reed and
Bethesda that I have visited did not shirk their duties and
responsibilities, nor did the veterans of our earlier wars.' "
Radnofsky continued with an explanation about her family background: "I
should disclose that my grandfather served, in the 1939-40 time period,
as Commander of his local American Legion Post. I am the daughter and
granddaughter of veterans as disclosed in the 'Family' section of my
website
http://www.radnofsky.com/."
Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Candidate, US Senate 2006
Barbara Ann Radnofsky for US Senate Committee, Inc.
P.O. Box 550377
Houston, TX 77255-0377