Tammy Baldwin: Block Body Armor for Troops in Combat

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Brian Sikma reports that Tammy Baldwin wanted to block body armor for our troops in combat.

That's a very significant piece of information.

As a congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin backed legislation to block funding for body armor and medical supplies for U.S. troops. The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate co-sponsored legislation in every session of Congress from 2003 until 2009 to allow taxpayers opposed to the military, Department of Defense, and various intelligence agencies to withhold their tax dollars from being spent in support of those entities. Specifically, the legislation allowed individual taxpayers to block funding that would be used for, “the training, supplying, or maintaining of military personnel.” That would include body armor, medical supplies, and other non-offensive equipment.

At least four times Baldwin co-sponsored the legislation, in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. The 2011 version of the bill does not list Baldwin’s name as a co-sponsor. At that time she was possibly contemplating a run for the U.S. Senate.

The legislation is a project of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, a far Left pacifist group. The legislation is the centerpiece of their existence and has previously attracted the support of more well known members of Congress, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California), who was Speaker of the House between 2007 and 2011.

Denying body armor and medical supplies to U.S. military personnel who were fighting two wars at the same time is not a politically popular position. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Rep. Nancy Pelosi dropped her sponsorship of the Peace Tax Fund. The nation’s military was being thrust into combat and troops would need not just combat weapons, but protective equipment and supplies that could save their lives.

It was in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks as American troops went into harm’s way on a scale not seen in decades that Baldwin began to co-sponsor the legislation.

Are you on the same page as Tammy Baldwin?

I most definitely am not.

Someone as extreme as Baldwin does not belong in the U.S. Senate.

On behalf of our troops and on behalf of Americans across the country, I am voting for Tommy Thompson.

The fact is the real Baldwin is not the one being portrayed in her campaign ads.

Wisconsin simply cannot send someone like the radical Baldwin to the U.S. Senate.