About face: VFW fires PAC board over Democratic endorsements

posted at 6:31 pm on October 18, 2010 by J.E. Dyer

The Veterans of Foreign Wars PAC, which endorsed an unbelievable slate of left-wing candidates http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/12/v ... orsements/
this month (including Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barbara Boxer), has been shut down by the VFW leadership, according to the Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/10/1 ... paign-arm/

This doesn’t appear to be anything meaningless or mealy-mouthed either. On Friday, the VFW Commander-in-Chief removed all 11 members of the VFW-PAC board after they refused to rescind their endorsements. He also issued a memo stating that he will move to dissolve the PAC at the annual VFW convention in August.

The move should not be all that surprising, given that VFW is a veteran-supported group dependent on donations from and participation by thousands of vets, spouses, and family members. The backlash from veterans was tremendous in the wake of the VFW-PAC endorsement announcement. The PAC’s board members, for their part, had their side represented to the media as follows by (former) Board chairman Tyrone Benson:

“I can understand the feelings of the people who didn’t like their congressmen,â€