Liberal veterans group targets Sen. Tommy Tuberville in ad
Mabinty Quarshie
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Liberal veteran organization VoteVets released an ad on Tuesday targeting Sen. Tommy Tuberville‘s (R-AL) military blockade, which he began in March to protest the Pentagon reimbursing service members who travel across state lines to receive abortions.
Tuberville’s blockade is holding up more than 300 military promotions and has led to criticisms from Democrats and some Republicans who say the protest threatens national security.
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The 30-second “Tight lips could sink ships” ad is airing on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News and is part of a nearly $150,000 ad buy. The ad slams Tuberville’s “un-American assault on our military” before focusing on the global impact the protest could have.
“Dangerous dictators look on with glee as Tuberville does their work for them, hurting American military readiness,” a narrator says, “and his domestic comrades are traitors in their silence. Their tight lips could sink ships. Stop the block on military promotions.”
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VoteVets has released other ads targeting the Alabama senator, and a poll commissioned by the group last month showed nearly 60% of those surveyed want him to drop the blockade. A later poll from the conservative WPA Intelligence polling firm found that 45% supported Tuberville’s stance.
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Tuberville has said he will not stop his blockade until the Pentagon reverses its abortion reimbursement policy. Prominent Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) expressed his support for Tuberville at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Founder town hall on Saturday.
“What the Defense Department is doing is outside the law,” DeSantis said. “They are breaking, violating the law by funding abortion tourism with tax dollars, and so when agencies do that, the Congress has to stand up and push back against it.”