Does Lon Johnson (still) stand with Obama or with our soldiers?

Now that President Obama is playing politics by threatening to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), where is Lon Johnson’s outrage?  The NDAA authorizes funding for the Armed Forces, including 919 active soldiers from MI-01, where Johnson is choosing to run this cycle.  It overwhelmingly passed the House by a vote of 270 to 156 and the Senate by a vote of 70 to 27.

Is ex-Michigan Democratic Party Leader Lon Johnson so blindly partisan that he won’t stand up to Barack Obama’s threat that holds the paychecks of our military men and women hostage?  Some issues are more important than politics, and hopefully Johnson agrees this is one of them.

NRCC Comment:  “Not everyone in Northern Michigan makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year like Lon Johnson, and that includes our brave soldiers and their families who rely on their paycheck to make ends meet.  Hopefully Lon Johnson musters up the courage to tell President Obama to back off his threat to veto a bipartisan bill that authorizes funding for our soldiers’ paychecks.” –NRCC Spokesman Chris Pack