Recently, Congress held a hearing on Extremist Groups Recruiting of Military Veterans. One of the panelists being consulted for their opinion on the matter was Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, who purports to be a non-partisan organization (their first lie) who is the largest and most diverse OEF/OIF veteran organization in the country (their second lie). Curiously, though, we find FEC filings involving Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America that clearly expose their actual hard line leftist views and activities. The FEC shows records of an attempted PAC that was deemed unauthorized in the same name of the org.
One of the people named on that application are Sean Ullman, who is shown to have donated at least once to ActBlue (an exclusively Democrat funding platform) earmarked to an organization called End Citizens United PAC, who was founded curiously just before Donald Trump was elected and raised $25M staggeringly quickly to accomplish their goals. The organization has endorsed Democratic candidates such as Zephyr Teachout, Hillary Clinton, Russ Feingold, Beto O’Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, and Jon Ossoff.
In early 2018, an anonymous U.S.-based contractor paid at least 3,800 micro job workers to manipulate what stories would come up when people searched for the PAC via Google.
And then there is the CEO of IAVA, Jeremy Butler…well I will just let his donation record as well as the organization staff as a whole speak for itself.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_employer=IAVA
Non Partisan organization indeed! If anything this organization is in place to do the very thing the panel was purporting alleged “extremist organizations” like the 3%ers and Proud Boys are doing.
We see you, Jeremy, and we understand what your org is, and more importantly what it is not.
Why wouldn’t Congress consult the two oldest veteran service organizations in the country, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars to testify? VFW is a Congressionally chartered organization and the oldest VSO in the country…curious how this Democrat led panel cherry picks it’s participants…