A Democratic friend of mine told me the other day she was really excited about their congressional candidate to replace Tom Reynolds, Jon Powers, a war veteran from Erie County. I asked her what she liked about him and she told me about this charity Powers started called War Kids Relief. I think the real reason she liked him is that he wasn’t a Republican.
I decided to look into this organization. All my friend knew about the charity was it helped kids in Iraq. My first thought was that there were plenty of kids in the United States needing help — but I was going to try and keep an open mind.
The funny thing is when I did a Google search for War Kids Relief, all I found was references to how it was created by Jon Powers. Stuff put out by his campaign. I went to youtube and again, the only reference to War Kids Relief was in the context of Jon Powers creating it — again stuff put out by his campaign.
I found all of the following links by doing a Google search on War Kids Relief. The only problem is that none of them work:
http://www.vvaf.org/programs/war-kids-relief/
http://www.vvaf.org/programs/immap/iraq/
Funny, when I did a Google search on Jon Powers for Congress, I found the following links and they all worked:
http://www.powersforcongress.com/
http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/18111
So here is my conclusion. Jon Powers knows something about websites — he is quite good at self promotion. But what about that charity my Democratic friend told me about? I’m starting to think that it was a resume building activity that Jon has left in the dust.
Let’s hope someone in the media asks him about this — he needs to come clean on this explain what’s going on.