No you are not mistaken, you are
in the right place for sure. State
Congresswoman Jennifer Carroll
gets our pick for this months
supporter of Veterans.

Yes, you absolutely DID see
my photo with her under the Forum
titled Veterans Disability Commission
elsewhere on this Vets For Justice
FORUM chat room. She was one of the
former sitting Commissioners, and now
I'm about to tell you the rest of what
she does.

Jennifer is currently holding
elected office as the Representative
for Jacksonville Florida for the
Florida State Legislature. I
consider her a good social acquaintance
and working friend in the Veterans
arena, and after sitting in the room
with her in our respective roles
for 2 straight years at the VDBC
Commission hearings, I can tell
you that she is a wonderful supporter
of Veterans and is very, very much
in touch with our issues.

She is a Reppublican, and I was
hard pressed to find any other
bad thing about her. She is a
wonderful person to know and
a Navy Lt. Commander retired too.

Jennifer has more brains in her
little finger than many Veterans
have as an entire group. That
says it all and I don't have to
add much more to that.

Veterans do have a friend in
Jennifer, as you long as you
treat her nice and not tie up
her time with a bunch of nonsense.
She is a state authority and
not a federal authority, now
that the VDBC Commission has
dismantled.

Florida Veterans would do well
to connect with her on important
state issues and to keep an
eye on her if she decides to
make a federal run for Washington.
I think Washington could use
another Condoleeza Rice, and Jennifer
Carroll is without hesitation,
in that same league of up and
coming prominent and esteemed
Black candidates and appointees
who are making their mark in todays
America.

It's not easy to be a high profile
elected state official in the
legislature, and then turn around
and have to sit in the faces of
angry Veterans. She did it, and she
did it with class. She was very
outreaching to Veterans trying
to get them all to come forward
at the VDBC Site Visit in Boston.
Taking extra minutes in her
opening statement, she talked
to everyone in the room told
all of them to come forward
to say what they wanted to say.

Jennifer sits on 4 committees
at the Florida Legislature: Financial
Institutions, Healthy Families,
Homeland Security, and Jobs/Entrepeneurship.

This gives Activist Veterans
a guideline checklist to match
against before starting out on
your trip to visit her.

She knows all about the VA, so
ya don't have to start from the
beginning. She was a party to
all 114 recommendations of the
VDBC Commission, and she heard
it all from those of us who appeared
as Protesters during the many
many Public Comment periods that
we advocated in (me too).

Salutes and a Vets For Justice
bear hug to State Representative
Jennifer Carroll from Florida. She
spoke well for us and delivered
a BOFFO national report to Congress
that will make every Veteran
in the nation proud to Go Navy !!

Here is her LINK:

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/representatives/...id=4331&sessionid=57

VFJ members, DO build a good relationship
with her and plan for her to be a
long term contact for you to go
back to on many issues and not just
one issue.

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