Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bill Scheurer Press Release Reveals Son Just Back from Iraq; Blasts Bean for Not Supporting Brain Injury Screening & Treatment
8/30/6 - The Sun-Times ran a Robert Novak column on Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s failure to obtain approval for an earmark (most people call it “pork”) for “''adaptation of current technologies to treat brain injuries suffered in combat” at the University of Chicago.
Besides the earmark’s failure, Moderate Party candidate Bill Scheurer for the 8th congressional district seat, described as an anti-war candidate by most reporters, says that funding for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center has been cut in half (down $7 million from last year’s $14 million).
Scheurer put a new twist on the subject of brain injuries.
He tells of his oldest son’s stoke when he was 15 and how his younger son
Besides the earmark’s failure, Moderate Party candidate Bill Scheurer for the 8th congressional district seat, described as an anti-war candidate by most reporters, says that funding for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center has been cut in half (down $7 million from last year’s $14 million).
Scheurer put a new twist on the subject of brain injuries.
He tells of his oldest son’s stoke when he was 15 and how his younger son
recently returned from a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, where troops are subjected to the kind of bomb blasts that are believed to cause permanent damage.Scheurer then blasts Democratic Party candidate Melissa Bean for not being a member of
the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, which authored a letter endorsing the DBVIC’s budget request, although Bean’s staff claims she supports brain injury research and treatment for veterans.You can read the whole press release here.
“This is just another case of Bean’s empty rhetoric about ‘supporting the troops’ while ignoring their needs as real human beings,” Scheurer said.
