Sen: Max Cleland to Campaign with Brown (D) on Iraq and Veterans Benefits

Decorated Vietnam veteran and former Senator and Veterans Administration chief Max Cleland will campaign with senatorial candidate Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-Avon) at events around the state next Tuesday:

Tuesday, August 8
9:00 AM
Central Park
Mansfield, OH
Sherrod Brown will return to his hometown for an event with community members and local veterans. He and Max Cleland will call on Congress to meet its commitment to veterans, including fully funding veterans’ health care benefits.

Tuesday, August 8
3:00 PM
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9927
3316 Wilmington Avenue
Dayton, OH
Sherrod Brown and Max Cleland will appear at a rally with Dayton area veterans. They will call on Congress to fully fund veterans’ health care benefits, and they will call on the Bush Administration to develop a winning Iraq exit strategy.

Tuesday, August 8
5:00 PM
The Atrium -Cincinnati Public Library
800 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH
Sherrod Brown and Max Cleland will be joined by Major Paul Hackett for a forum with Cincinnati area veterans. Brown, Cleland and Hackett will call on Congress to fully fund veterans’ health care benefits and on the Bush Administration to develop a winning Iraq exit strategy.

UPDATE: The principal organizer for the Mansfied event just wrote me to say that it was a tremendous success:

I follow your blog and was the local guy on the scene to pull it all together and I just wanted to tell you the Brown visit to Mansfield was great. Max thrilled the crowd a number of times, and Brown did as well. Crowd of approx 125+ was a broad mixture of veterans and loyal party supporters. Comments afterwards were all very positive.

If you're in the Cincinnati area right now, head on over to the event at 5:00 at the public library!