Afghanistan & Iraq Veterans for Congress

KEYSTONE PIPELINE AND THE WAR ON U.S. WORKERS 

Today the 'friends of the working man' who inhabit elegant suites in the White House, State Department, and Congress knifed American workers in the back.  By punting on the Keystone Pipeline again, the Administration and Congress sent a blunt message to American workers:  drop dead.

The political elite running America today doesn't know channel locks from channel catfish.  They have no clue what it means to work in the trades.  Their hands are unscarred.  They've never turned a wrench, are isolated from those who have, and don't care.  Exhibit A:  the second Keystone betrayal.

Each election season, the U.S. Congress and Senate Majority to which Mr. Ben Cardin belongs protest their undying affection for American workers and their families.   But when push came to shove on Keystone, when Mr. Cardin and other Senators could have hammered some sense into Foggy Bottom and the Oval Office, where were they?   Hiding in the head.

Outrageous.

·         Maryland workers deserve a U.S. Senator who, regardless of party, will raise hell over phony political roadblocks to job-creating projects like Keystone.

·         Maryland workers deserve a U.S. Senator whose first loyalty is to Maryland, not to a Senate Majority Leader or President of either party.

·         Maryland workers deserve a U.S. Senator who has made a living in an engineroom, boiler room, or a shipyard, and knows what it means to work in the trades.

Mr. Cardin, a career politician for an astonishing 44 years, has never held a job outside a legislature.  No scars on those hands.  And no action on Keystone.

Maryland workers:  you deserve a better Senate.  To get there, elect better Senators.

 Senate candidate (R-MD )/Iraq vet  Richard Douglas began adult life as a Navy submarine machinist's mate.  He ran the submarine's Fairbanks Morse diesel engine, 3000 psi hydraulic plant, 4500 psi air compressors, and its air purification, steering, diving, ballasting, and firefighting systems.  Studying on the G.I. Bill, he ran drill presses, milling  machines, and boilers to pay expenses.  He has held a First Class Stationary Engineer's License, and a U.S. Merchant Marine 'Z Card' (firefighting endorsement) but did not sail.  Please visit DouglasforSenate2012.com.