Veteran Voices: When Democrat Michael Coles gathered about 40 supportive veterans outside the Capitol Thursday to criticize Sen. Paul Coverdell's votes on health care benefits for veterans, a Coverdell campaign operative crashed the party. Ron Miller, a Vietnam veteran who works for Coverdell, fired hostile questions at Coles about his accepting campaign contributions from Jane Fonda, an anti-Vietnam war activist. Several veterans quickly sprang to the candidate's defense, shouting Miller down. "We need to send him to North Korea," an angry Command Sgt. Major Willie J. Roach of Augusta said of Miller. "Paul Coverdell hasn't done one thing for veterans." Coles said he'd accepted contributions from both Fonda and her husband, Ted Turner. "She's sorry for what she did. Paul Coverdell isn't," Coles said, referring to Fonda's protests and Coverdell's Senate votes. |
