2020 MT Senatorial race: on Homeland Security


Steve Bullock: Initiative focusing on veterans' suicide prevention

Bullock announced veterans' suicide prevention efforts through grants established by an initiative titled Governor's Challenge to Prevent Suicide Among Service Members, Veterans, and their Families. "When our military members return home, we must do everything we can to honor the promises our country has made when the battle is over," said Gov. Bullock.
Source: The Sidney Herald on 2020 Montana Senate race Jul 5, 2020

Wilmot Collins: Make sure service members & first responders are funded

Together we can work vigorously to ensure that the public's safety will always be our top priority. I won't take "no" for an answer when it comes to making sure that our service members, firefighters and law enforcement officers who bear the burden of risking their lives for us, are sufficiently funded, staffed, and given every resource available to help make their jobs easier and our city, state, and nation more safe.
Source: 2020 Montana Senate campaign website WilmotCollins.com Jun 4, 2020

John Driscoll: Committed to help return POW-MIA Americans to U.S.

Montanans ask a good faith effort to recover the 1587 Americans still carried as POW-MIA. According to the National League of POW-MIA Families, as of Jan. 21, the obstacles to POW-MIA recovery are too few intelligence analysts and repeated U.S. cancellations of planned recovery operations due to decreased funding. This regrettable situation has sent negative signals of disinterest to counterpart officials in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. I will work to increase funding for POW-MIA recovery.
Source: The Missoulian on 2020 Montana Senate race Apr 15, 2020

Steve Bullock: Upgrading Air National Guard better use of money than wall

Bullock called on Montana's two Republican congressional members to intervene with the Trump administration's plans to use funds appropriated for upgrading the Montana Air National Guard C-130 fleet for a border wall. "This reprogramming will further delay C-130H modernization, thereby weakening the mission of our Montana National Guard and putting our Airmen at risk flying 40-year-old planes," Bullock wrote.
Source: The Great Falls Tribune on 2020 Montana Senate race Feb 24, 2020

Wilmot Collins: Vets should never spend one second sleeping in the streets

The women and men who served this country in the military and fought for our freedoms should never spend one second sleeping on the streets. Because Montana is among the top three states in this country with the most veterans per capita, we need to ensure that the men and women who stood ready to serve, don't have to stand in a line to get care. We have to keep the promises we made to these brave men and women.
Source: 2020 Montana Senate campaign website, WilmotCollins.com Jan 12, 2020

Susan Good Geise: Honor veterans by strengthening VA, hiring veterans and more

Montana, outside of Alaska, has the highest rate of military service in the nation, and our heroes range from the posthumous Medal of Honor-winner Travis Atkins of Bozeman to, though our politics differ, Robert O'Neil of Butte, who helped hunt down Osama bin Laden, to those like Bud Campbell who survived the Bataan Death March of World War II, the Korean War's Newton Old Crow Sr., and the Vietnam War's Bob Jewell. Veterans Day gives us all a chance to reflect on those who have served our nation in uniform. It has also given me, as a U.S. Senate candidate, the opportunity to develop the policies that will help our veterans: protecting and fortifying the Veterans Administration, destigmatizing and treating war's hidden injuries, including PTSD and TBI, expanding rural Montana's access to high quality health care, incentivizing the hiring and training of veterans, solving veteran homelessness, and tackling our state's suicide epidemic head-on.
Source: The Missoulian on 2020 Montana Senate race Nov 6, 2019

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Candidates and political leaders on Homeland Security:

Democrats running for President:
Sen.Michael Bennet (D-CO)
V.P.Joe Biden (D-DE)
Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I-NYC)
Gov.Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
Sen.Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
Rep.John Delaney (D-MD)
Rep.Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Sen.Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Mayor Wayne Messam (D-FL)
Gov.Deval Patrick (D-MA)
Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
CEO Tom Steyer (D-CA)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Marianne Williamson (D-CA)
CEO Andrew Yang (D-NY)

2020 Third Party Candidates:
Rep.Justin Amash (L-MI)
CEO Don Blankenship (C-WV)
Gov.Lincoln Chafee (L-RI)
Howie Hawkins (G-NY)
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
Gov.Jesse Ventura (I-MN) 		Republicans running for President:
Sen.Ted Cruz(R-TX)
Gov.Larry Hogan (R-MD)
Gov.John Kasich(R-OH)
V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
Gov.Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Pres.Donald Trump(R-NY)
Rep.Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Gov.Bill Weld(R-MA & L-NY)

2020 Withdrawn Democratic Candidates:
Sen.Stacey Abrams (D-GA)
Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC)
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen.Mike Gravel (D-AK)
Sen.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Gov.John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Gov.Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Rep.Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Rep.Beto O`Rourke (D-TX)
Rep.Tim Ryan (D-CA)
Adm.Joe Sestak (D-PA)
Rep.Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
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