KS-02: DCCC Statement on Jenkins War Funding Vote

Pile on, ladies and gentlemen:

Hypocrisy Watch: Representative Lynn Jenkins Puts Politics First on Supplemental Funding

Today Congress voted on the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009, which includes funding for American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as money to fight the H1N1 flu pandemic. When she had the choice, Representative Lynn Jenkins sided with Republican leaders in playing politics with this urgently needed money.

“Republicans never hesitated to criticize any Democrat who voted against the previous supplemental bills, but now that they are trying to score political points, their stance conveniently changed,” said Ryan Rudominer, National Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Today, Representative Jenkins chose to play politics with this important money for the troops and to fight the H1N1 flu pandemic.”

Jenkins and the rest of the Republicans in the the United States House of Representatives are doing nothing but playing politics with our men and women in uniform- something as unconscionable as anything a politician can do.

It does come down to this, though, folk: If Lynn Jenkins has gotten her way, our men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan would find themselves on the battlefield in September without support. She'd rather continue voting the way her leadership tells her she must than do what is right for Kansans serving abroad. Think what you want about the wars- I want them over today, too- but this is a shocking course of action from a women with two military bases in her district.

KS-02: DCCC Statement on Jenkins War Funding Vote