This morning, the shady group called Concerned Veterans for America is holding a town hall with Ted Cruz in Milford, New Hampshire. Bridge Project and VoteVets.org recently exposed the political agenda of Concerned Veterans for America with a report titled, “The Vets Group That Fights Against Veterans.”
CVA promotes extreme right-wing policies that stand in opposition to nearly every other veterans group, as reported in the Military Times. These policies could seriously affect the 111,000 veterans living in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire veterans by the numbers in 2013, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs:
- 18,248 veterans receiving disability compensation or pension payments
- 3,994 veterans receiving monthly disability
- 257 inpatient visits to VA hospitals statewide
- 251,000 outpatient visits to VA hospitals statewide
From pushing a plan to privatize the VA healthcare system to proposing a transition from the current military retirement system to a private 401(k)-like plan, CVA follows the radical conservatism of the Koch brothers, working to advance the billionaires’ self-interest at the expense of veterans.
Bridge Project will be working with partners to hold CVA and the Koch brothers accountable as they plan to continue spending millions to prop up GOP candidates in New Hampshire and trying to buy elections across the country.
