“There’s a legacy of progressive politics having a problem with veterans,” he said. In de Blasio’s silence toward veterans, Rieckhoff suspects there’s a discomfort that’s partly ideological. “He’s a progressive who talks about health care and housing all the time-two of the biggest issues facing veterans-but for some reason he never mentions veterans by name,” Rieckhoff said. But I guess it doesn’t include veterans,” said Paul Rieckhoff, who heads the New York-based Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a veterans’ service organization with around 400,000 members nationally and 10,000 in New York City.* “He’s talking about a progressive platform all across America. The progressive policy proposals put a spotlight on de Blasio’s ambitions outside New York but back in his home city, veterans’ advocates were calling foul, noting that, once again, they’d been left out of his sweeping proposals. New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Washington, D.C., this week to unveil his “Progressive Agenda to Combat Inequality” and to continue his climb from new guy in City Hall to national political figure.
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