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Jeanne Shaheen is playing politics with New Hampshire’s veterans.

In an op-ed in the Union-Leader written by Pete Hegseth of Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), Hegseth takes Shaheen to task for ignoring veterans issues before national attention was focused on the VA over the mistreatment of our veterans.

Read the op-ed HERE.

Just yesterday, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported Bruce Braley has missed 78% of Veterans Affairs committee meetings.

Today, the Des Moines Register is reporting…

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This morning, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki offered his resignation to President Obama. The resignation came after more than 100 members of Congress in both parties called for Shinseki to step down, in light of the growing problems facing the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Two Democrat Senators up for re-election in 2014 who did not find enough evidence in the Inspector General’s report to call for Shinseki’s ouster: Mark Begich (D-AK) and Mark Pryor (D-AR).

Just yesterday, Pryor said he was still “not yet” ready to call for Shinseki to resign from the VA. Why? Evidently the tragedy in Phoenix in which 40 veterans died while waiting for care on a secret waiting list was not enough for Pryor,who said:

“I want to see how widespread this is. I want to see what is going on there. I want to get inside the numbers a little bit, not just the big top line number.”

Also yesterday, Begich held a press conference, specifically about veterans’ issues. When asked if Shinseki should resign, the AP reports Begich was “reserving judgment.”

It’s not clear what these senators were looking for, but what is clear is that they failed to stand up for the thousands of veterans in their states.

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Today, when asked if Secretary Shinseki should resign from the VA after an IG report detailed the severity of the scandal, Mark Pryor replied: “Not yet.”

Asked Pryor should Shinseki resign? Pryor: “Not yet.” Wants to see what Shinseki knew & how wide spread it is. #arpx

— Elicia Dover (@EliciaDover)

May 29, 2014

Pryor’s “not yet” remarks came after the release of a scathing IG report:

Why is this IG report and its shocking contents not enough for Pryor to hold Shinseki accountable for the VA’s mismanagement?

See full story HERE. 

At the only Democrat primary debate Michelle Nunn attended, she made her position on the Veterans Affairs scandal clear. She would not be calling on Secretary Shinseki to resign.

Instead, Nunn said she would “defer” to President Obama’s judgment:

QUESTION: “When you hear about the deaths of these servicemen who were waiting for care under the veterans’ department, is it time though for Eric Shinseki, should he resign? Should we hold him accountable for those deaths of those service personnel?”

NUNN: “I think all of us are outraged at the deaths of our veterans and I think, you know, we owe it to them to make sure that we understand exactly what happened and that we remedy the situation and never let it happen again. We need accountability; we need to make sure there’s a congressional oversight of this issue. I defer to the President’s judgment about the leadership that will be necessary to ensure that accountability and that transparency and that we actually change the system in order to preclude this from ever happening again.”

Today, Nunn flip-flopped and released a lengthy statementcalling for Shinseki to resign, because “there is growing evidence that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs new leadership in order to reform its badly broken bureaucracy.”

When given the chance to stand up for Georgia’s veterans and demand accountability, Michelle Nunn deferred to President Obama. It appears she is now in damage control putting her campaign’s politics before protecting veterans’ healthcare.

See more HERE. 

NBC’s SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: “Let’s talk about some of the issues in your district. As you well know, Fort Bragg is in your district. Your brother served two tours of duty in Iraq. I’m sure you’re following what’s happening with the scandal at the Veterans Administration, with the delays in treatments for vets. Do you think Eric Shinseki, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, should resign?”

AIKEN: “I don’t know, but I mean, I think we have a lot of people who are making decisions without being in the room. I’m not going to be one of those folks who wasn’t in the hearings, hasn’t paid attention to those details, and wasn’t privy to that stuff in making decisions for that. But I will say, we’ve gotta do a better job of funding the VA, we’ve gotta do a better job of organizing the VA. I think the VA should be possibly not in the healthcare business so much, as in the veterans care business in taking care of the needs of veterans. The veterans unemployment rate is 11 percent, four point higher than the rest of the population. We’ve got—it’s a very mismanaged organization and we’ve gotta do a better job of cleaning it up.”

Full story HERE. 

This morning, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki testified in front of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee regarding the management of the agency in the aftermath of the 40 veterans in Phoenix who died waiting for care.

No Democrats called for Shinseki’s resignation at the hearing, but they did appear eager to criticize Shinseki in front of TV cameras. That’s quite a change in tone for many of these D’s, who have heaped praise on Shinseki and his leadership in the past.

1. Just last month, Kay Hagan (D-NC) said she was “pleased” with the VA’s progress reducing the backlog of veterans’ claims.

2. In 2011, Bruce Braley (D-IA) met with Shinseki and “had a great conversation and a productive meeting,” according to Braley. He added, “I look forward to working with him.”

3. In 2012, Mary Landrieu (D-LA) heaped praise on Shinseki’s management of the VA, stating, “I really appreciate the hard work that you do.”

4. In April 2014, despite the controversy at the VA in Phoenix, Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said she looked forward“to continue working with Secretary Shinseki” on Veterans Affairs issues.

5. Two years ago, Mark Udall (D-CO) seemed pleased with Shinseki’s work at the VA and thanked him for his “continued support” of local VA efforts in Colorado.

6. Despite reports of mismanagement issues at the Anchorage VA office, Mark Begich (D-AK) called it “excellent news” that Shinseki visited Alaska.

Here are four moments from the Georgia Senate Democrat debate that Michelle Nunn won’t feature in her TV ads:

1. Supports ObamaCare

NUNN: “Thank you. First of all I want to thank the Atlanta Press Club, Georgia Public Broadcasting, to my fellow candidates, to those that are watching here live today and virtually, thanks for your commitment to citizenship. I have said that I look at ACA from the vantage point of someone who ran an organization, who had to make a payroll, who saw rising healthcare premiums. And I think that we need the two sides to work together to fix what’s not working yet and to build upon the things that are. And when I think about the things that need to be fixed, it includes the fact that when I visit southwest Georgia they have among the highest premiums in the nation, and we need to add a lower tier affordable rate for families and individuals.”

2. “Self-Evident” Democrat

NUNN: “I think it is self-evident-since I am on the stage, here, to win the Democratic nomination for Senate-that I am a Democrat. I have spent my life as a Democrat. It’s a part of my family heritage.”

3. Proud To Have Worked With Obama

TODD ROBINSON: “Well I’m still concerned Ms. Nunn, I spoke of President Obama and you spoke of George Bush. Can you say President Obama in any of your speeches or any of your commercials? Can you call his name?”

MODERATOR: “Well, you had a chance to ask her one question, I’ll let you answer that, moving forward the rebuttal is not to ask another question. Please feel free to answer the question.”

NUNN: “I’m proud to have worked with President Obama and I’ve had a really- the great fortune to have worked with all of our Presidents but I am very grateful for my service with President Obama with Michelle Obama and I am excited to advance the things that I think are for Georgia and would work with President Obama to accomplish that and if we have areas of disagreement then I would work to make improvements as well.”

4. Defers To Obama On VA Scandal

QUESTION: “When you hear about the deaths of these servicemen who were waiting for care under the veterans’ department, is it time though for Eric Shinseki, should he resign? Should we hold him accountable for those deaths of those service personnel?”

NUNN: “I think all of us are outraged at the deaths of our veterans and I think, you know, we owe it to them to make sure that we understand exactly what happened and that we remedy the situation and never let it happen again. We need accountability; we need to make sure there’s a congressional oversight of this issue. I defer to the President’s judgment about the leadership that will be necessary to ensure that accountability and that transparency and that we actually change the system in order to preclude this from ever happening again.”

Read more HERE.