Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on the importance of voting November 4.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on the importance of voting November 4.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the importance of voting on November 4.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on the importance of voting November 4.

Jobs are shipped overseas every year. How long are you going to take it? This year, vote.

The Environmental Protection Agency is waging war against mining all across America. Coal mining jobs are being destroyed at the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen, open pit copper mining jobs in Alaska – gone – due to an illegal EPA anti-mining edict. Even on the Iron Range, the EPA has tried to obstruct and discourage the creation of good mining jobs.

Yet, Al Franken has chosen to support his elitist Hollywood environmentalist friends by voting on the Senate floor to allow the EPA to continue their power grab that threatens your career and job security.

Franken had the chance to stand with miners against EPA rules designed to destroy coal mining, but he chose to stand with green extremists like Leonardo DiCaprio on the bow of the Titannic as it headed for an icy doom, and not your brethren.

Mining is hard work. It can be dangerous work. And it is proud work.

Tell Al Franken to stand with miners and against the Hollywood elites and the EPA bureaucrats who want to regulate you out of a job.

While veterans were suffering and dying under inadequate care at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, what were Obama’s bureaucrats doing? Stealing. And your senator refused to do a thing about it.

From 2010 to 2013, Venita Godfrey-Scott directed employees to use materials and supplies intended for VA medical center to make improvements to her house. Using up to $20,000 worth of materials, she had VA workers build “a deck in her backyard, carpet installation, and various kitchen, bathroom and basement improvements,” according to the U.S. Justice Department. Godfrey-Scott was convicted and sentenced to four years probation, and forced to pay $15,000 restitution.

Elsewhere, Rebecca Wiley, former director of the Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was quietly paid $76,006 when she retired last year just one week after Congress began investigating her hospital’s role in nine preventable patient deaths in Augusta and Columbia, according to documents retrieved by the Augusta Chronicle.

This just plain wrong. Our nation’s veterans gave everything to their country, and Obama’s VA let them down while its employees stole money for personal use. Sign the petition and demand your senator finally stand up for veterans!