Vote Vets defends anti-Allen ad [View All]

[Rose Siding]

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The ad's shocking claim - that Allen deliberately denied troops lifesaving equipment - outraged Allen's campaign.

"This ad is deceitful and a lie," Allen campaign manager Dick Wadhams said.
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(VoteVets.org chairman Jon) Soltz defended the claim (in the ad), based on a vote Allen cast in 2003 against an amendment Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., offered to boost National Guard and Reserves equipment funding by $1 billion.

Landrieu's amendment died on a 52-47 vote with Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va., and every other Republican voting to table Landrieu's bill. One Democrat, Zell Miller of Georgia, voted with the GOP majority.

"This was a life-or-death vote, and he voted death," said Soltz, an Army Reserves captain who served with the 1st Armored Division in Baghdad.

He said in a telephone interview that many in his unit were issued the Vietnam-era jackets, while others were given the vests for the modern system, but not the armor plates to insert in the vest to make it bulletproof.

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