Democrat Russ Feingold would like the up- for- grabs Wisconsin U.S. Senate seat back. He lost to incumbent Republican Ron Johnson six years ago.
While making a campaign swing in Rhinelander Saturday, Feingold shot back at a revised commercial from a so-called 'dark money' group funded by the Koch Brothers, claiming Feingold did nothing after being notified of a problem at the Tomah VA.
Feingold aides say the memo cited in the ad continues to be misleading, as the memo dealt with a hostile work environment and not about over-prescribing medications. Feingold says the ad is a cynical political ploy that doesn't do anything to help veterans...
".....it's shameful that the Koch Brothers and Ron Johnson hiding behind them are trying to make this a political issue. This is about the death of a veteran in 2014.(By then) of course, I'd been out of office four years. I was told his office had information from Ryan Honl, the guy in the ad, as early as 2011...."
Feingold says he didn't know about the over-prescribing problem when he left office in 2010. Feingold says Ron Johnson has more to his Senate record regarding veterans than has been revealed....
".....he was one of only three people who would have allowed veterans who live far away of having the alternative of a private hospital. He voted against the big funding bill that would have provided the repair of some of the losses of benefits, Senator McCain's bill, and he voted against a Veterans Job Corps bill. He said it was another entitlement. Well, who is more entitled to make sure they can get health care than veterans?...."
Feingold says he will support either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Presidential nominee.
