The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has found quite the way to honor our nation’s veterans — especially those running for Congress — as the committee mocked GOP congressional hopeful and Iraq War veteran Lee Zeldin, calling him a coward.
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The DCCC attacked Zeldin, who is running for Congress in New York’s 1st, for failing to take a stance on Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget. The committee labeled the army veteran either “woefully uninformed, willfully ignorant or a coward.”
“Lee Zeldin is either woefully uninformed, willfully ignorant, or a coward,” Marc Brumer, a DCCC press secretary, said in a press release. “Lee Zeldin feigns ignorance on every important issue and has repeatedly refused to take a stand against his party’s reckless budget which would end the Medicare guarantee — to say nothing of their inaction on long-term unemployment insurance and refusal to raise the minimum wage. Lee Zeldin is choosing cowardice over honesty because he knows that if he came clean about his priorities, voters will reject his out-of-touch agenda.”
Zeldin served in the 82nd Airborne Division and spent four years on active duty. He was deployed to Iraq in the summer of 2006.
The DCCC, though, didn’t stop there.
Brumer took to his Twitter account to ridicule the army veteran even further and compared him to the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz.
Sent @leezeldin the same badge of courage today that the Wizard of Oz gave the Cowardly Lion http://t.co/rjNHDnidPc pic.twitter.com/C54UWGZaAn
— Marc Brumer (@MarcPBrumer) May 14, 2014
Zeldin faces incumbent Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), former provost of Southampton College. Bishop is a member of the DCCC’s Frontline Program for the 2014 race, which assists vulnerable Democrats.
Zeldin, to the contrary, was awarded membership in the National Republican Campaign Committee’s Young Guns program, which identifies candidates that “show promise of running a successful campaign.” He was elected to the New York state Senate in 2010.
