In 2012, campaigns and political organizations spent almost $7 billion dollars to get their message out — almost as much as the United States spent that year on the post-war effort in Iraq.

And as we steel ourselves for another onslaught of campaigns ads competing for our attention on our televisions, computers, and phones, you gotta wonder how anyone can cut through that amount of noise.

The answer: veterans can.

We are the messengers we need in the coming debate about how the current Congress — led by elected officials like Mitch McConnell — have let down veterans.

In the coming weeks, VoteVets is going to escalate its current ad campaign highlighting Senator McConnell’s repeated efforts to block VA health care improvements.

Your $5 contribution will make sure Kentucky’s 300,000 veterans receive the message loud and clear.

Mitch McConnell says the “denial of care to our veterans is a national disgrace.”

But he’s blocked a tax credit encouraging employers to hire veterans, blocked funding to improve veterans health care, blocked giving veterans in-state tuition across the country, and blocked job training programs for veterans.

That’s the disgrace.

Your $5 contribution will make sure Kentucky’s veterans get that message this fall.

http://action.votevets.org/we-are

Thanks for standing with VoteVets in this effort. It’s important.

All the best,

General (Ret.) Wesley Clark
VoteVets.org