Vets For Boozman Coalition Launched

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2010

Vets for Boozman Coalition Launched

Little
Rock— John Boozman’s U.S. Senate campaign today announced the formal launch of
the Vets for Boozman Coalition and unveiled a new section of their website to
reach out to Arkansas’s veterans.

Vets
for Boozman Coalition President Jim Pat Mills of North Little Rock encouraged
Arkansas’s veterans to join the coalition, citing the work the Congressman has
done on behalf of our veterans and active duty personnel.

“Arkansas’s
veterans and our active duty personnel could not have a better friend than John
Boozman in the U.S. Senate,” said Mills, a former commissioner on the Arkansas
Veterans Commission and current National Chief of Chaplains for the Veterans
Chaplain Association.

The
Vets for Boozman Coalition page includes quotes from Arkansas veterans endorsing Boozman, a
welcome video from Mills and information on Boozman’s stands on veterans issues
and legislative efforts on behalf of our veterans.

Veterans can sign-up to join the coalition at http://www.boozmanforarkansas.com/veterans.

Arkansas’s veterans are
very familiar with Boozman’s efforts to improve their quality of life, noted
Coalition member Matt Mendenhall of Springdale.   

“From sponsoring bills
too numerous to list here, holding veterans issues forums, tracking down lost
or misplaced awards for veterans going back to World War II, there has been no
issue too small or unimportant for John to pursue when it comes to taking care
of our veterans.  Northwest Arkansas now
has a veterans nursing home thanks in part to John’s efforts,” Mendenhall said.

Boozman currently serves as the Ranking Member of the House Veterans Affairs
Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, where he helps assist veterans in making
a smooth transition into civilian life. 
He has introduced a number of bills to provide more job opportunities
for our veterans and enhance their quality of life post-service, including the
“Veterans’ Retraining Act of 2009,” which increases training assistance for
certain veterans who have been unemployed longer than four months.

He
is also a member of the Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health and the author of language to
create a Vision Center of Excellence to provide acute eye care for our troops
returning from the battlefield with eye-related injuries.

To help meet the needs of Arkansas’s growing veterans population, Boozman
secured federal funds to construct a 108-bed state veterans nursing home within
the Washington County Medical Center.  When
the Arkansas Legislature had trouble coming up with their share of the funds,
it was Boozman who came through to make that project a reality.

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