OH: Socialist Candidate for Senate Calls on Congress to Cut Funding for War

From Solidarity:

Dan La Botz, Ohio Socialist Candidate for U.S. Senate, Calls for Immediate U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan -- Candidate Calls for “No” vote Obama’s Request for $33 Billion More for War.  Dan La Botz, the Cincinnati school teacher who in February entered the race in Ohio for the U.S. Senate, called today for the United States to move immediately to withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and to end attacks on Pakistan. He also urged the U.S. Congress to vote “No” on President Barack Obama’s call for $33 billion for supplemental war funding which is expected to come up for a vote in April. This is on top of the Pentagon’s request for a $548.9 billion base budget and $159.3 billion in war funding for Fiscal Year 2011, which begins Oct. 1.