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Well to catch you up, Hawaii had no
Senate races going on for this past election so that means we are working in future mode here to get the word out about why Daniel Akaka needs a mental tune-up and to get out of Veterans affairs one way or another. Voters from Hawaii, pay attention. The VA is in the middle of yet another scandal meltdown, this one less publicized largely because here in New York, the news industry actually conspires with the VA to keep breaking scandal stories out of the Associated Press so that everybody else can know what is going on. We pick up AP stories at other VA locations, but once crime hits our own agency here in New York, now the entire story is pushed back to the B section in a small headline that only somebody's grandmother would see. In the midst of this newest breaking VA scandal sits 2 compelling cases, shredded documents which includes evidence and application submissions by Veterans for disability claims, largely at Detroit, St. Louis, Waco Texas, and St. Petersburg, Florida: and also the firing of not one but [b]FOUR{/b] top claims unit staff including the Chief of the VARO NYC Claims Unit, Joseph Collorafi. The truth is, I personally tried (and it's a matter of record and official transcript) all through last year to raise the awareness at both the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees that the document falsification was going on here in New York. In the meantime, Akaka and Filner both snored through misapplied and misdefined legislation that were off target and does or will do ZERO to fix those thousands who have now been found out to be victimized criminally by the VA. Tough shit I say: I did my best Akaka while you piddle-assed around with junk that we Veterans could have cared less about while the really important stuff was swept under the carpet. I also sat for 2 straight years before the Veterans Disability Benefits Commission telling them repeatedly that the documents were being trashed and falsified, while everybody sat in the room looking all stupid in the face, including every one of the VSO's who right at that time were forcing Veterans who were crime victims of this national plot to PROCESS the fake and phoney Remand orders that were all coming out of this hate-crime factory. Onward goes the snoozing and the snoring of Daniel Akaka and Bob Filner as Committee chairpersons. The truth is that both of these Committees spend all of their own time themselves cranking out fake and phoney webcast hearings and as you look at those over a period of time, what comes to bear is the fact that both of them are too much of a testosterone suck-up factory to the VA. When the VA comes in, all they have to do is sit down and make up a story and that is just fine, well, and good with both Filner and Akaka. Akaka doesn't know how to confront, or to probe, or to investigate, and like his mush-brained counterpart Filner in the House, he is too, too busy thanking everybody in the room for their service instead of kicking ass and collecting names. In the one and only bill that come out of the Senate that we were actually interested in, S. 3023 the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act (seen up in our Bills Forum), they even managed to sabotage the Vet appeal to THAT by stuffing it with unwanted gratuitous funding and increased staffing to the frigging COURT of Veterans Appeals, of which the rest of us are working to completely shut down as an unnecessary and replaceable process. By the way, that Act actually started in the House and was loosely premised on the findings and recomendations of the VDBC Commission just in case ya didn't catch that. I sat through most of those issue reviews and entered endorsements on the recommendations. After all of the disconnect, misfires, and displaced loyalties to VA Court coming from Akaka, and this includes passing Bills that we had actually entered Oppositions to either because they didn't go far enough to fix our national problems or did not address non-combat issues for the rest of our population, then we got to wondering just who it is, exactly who is controlling Daniel Akaka's elections on the tiny wonderful isle of Hawaii? As luck will have it, yes it is posted on the internet for the entire world to see and guess what? Veterans are NOT the ones controlling Akaka's election fund, lawyers are. My my what a big frigging surprise! Like we didn't see THAT one coming! So for the entirety of the last legislative season I was sitting here grinding away FORUM entries kicking this Bungler Extraordinairre in the pants, and here it all comes out that the lawyers are the ones who are controlling his very election campaign. So here it is Vets, the big enchilada that tells all and thank god for computers, don't ya think?? Again I say to you that those of us here at Vets for Justice absolutely DO have our fingers on the pulse of todays Vet issues, no matter where it takes us. I think you will find this LINK below a true eye-opening experience and a verification that this collection of FORUM posts entered under Akaka's name has always been right on target. Let the voters in Hawaii get a load of THIS, I say, and may the Veterans of the next legislative session start rolling up their sleeps to knock some sense into Akaka before he gives away the farm in our name. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00007653 Sue Frasier, VEV 1970 Army Signal Corps national activist/protester staff Blogger, VFJ |
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