Henry Waxman’s Stand on Veterans’ Land for Homeless and Care in West LA Draws Electoral Opponent

By Robert Rosebrock

‘Joe the Homeless Veteran’ is camping outside the largest VA medical center in the nation in West Los Angeles, the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration’s facility, while Rep. Henry Waxman (D- Los Angeles) and others conned DVA Sec. Shinseki into spending $20 million to rehab an 80-year old building for approximately 80 veterans which won’t be ready for two years.

The controversy had drawn a political opponent for Waxman as “veterans and their supporters, some in their 60s, 70s, and 80s” (Andres Chavez) continue their fight against Waxman seen as protecting the misuse of veterans’ land that was deeded solely for veterans’ care in the 19th century.

‘Joe the Homeless Veteran’ stands alongside the “majestic wrought iron fence” of which the VA donated $1 million of Veterans’ healthcare money to help beautify the entryway into Brentwood. On the other side of the fence is a 16-acre, billion-dollar parcel of Veterans land that the VA gave to a wealthy Brentwood homeower group for a public park.

Waxman is a  major supporters of the public park while 20,000 Veterans remain homeless. But out of generosity from their heart, Shinseki and Waxman, threw 80 homeless veterans a $20-million bone.

Veterans and advoctes want the successful Board of Managers concept of the late 1800s and early 1900s for managing this property as it was intended, “to be permanently maintained as a National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers” as the land was deeded. 

Please help America’s Military Veterans unseat Henry Waxman from the 30th Congressional District!

His opponent this election year is Chuck Wilkerson, a Marine Korean War Veteran.