A.G. Gancarski
On Tuesday, the Carlos Lopez-Cantera Republican campaign for Senate slammed primary opponent David Jolly for “refusing to hold the VA (Veterans Administration) accountable.”
At issue, claims Lopez-Cantera’s press secretary Courtney Alexander, is Jolly’s vote “against an amendment to H.R. 2029 which would have prevented taxpayers from paying union workers for time spent conducting union business instead of doing official work for the VA.”
In doing so, Alexander contends, Jolly “made the decision to cave to union interests instead of holding the VA accountable.”
“It seems like Jolly is on the side of the no-show union workers and VA bureaucrats — the same bureaucrats who just yesterday compared wait times for veterans to waiting in line at Disney,” Alexander continues.
Alexander has more to say about the matter:
With reports of continued wait time manipulation, systemic mismanagement and poor care; it is commonsense that if taxpayers are footing the bill, VA employees should be focusing their time on the job at hand: serving our nation’s heroes.
The bureaucracy at the VA is the core of what is wrong with the flawed system, yet Jolly continues to protect government bureaucrats.
Jolly has remained consistent as a Washington insider who excels at saying one thing yet doing another, preaching about the failure of greatness in leadership in government on the stump, then changing his tune when he thinks no one is looking. Time and time again, Jolly continues to choose the path of least resistance by supporting government unions and Washington’s broken system.
Jolly’s spox, Max Goodman, offered a pithy response.
“Leave it to Carlos to oppose the efforts of David Jolly, John McCain and Donald Trump to give every veteran the freedom to choose where they receive their medical care.”
Then Alexander fired back.
“Are we living in reality? The vote on that amendment had nothing to do with care Choice, which every Veteran should have access to, but by choosing to vote no David Jolly aligned himself with big unions and government bureaucrats. Voters are tired of the antics of DC politicians; saying one thing, then doing another.”
