Capps hosts Veterans’ Appreciation Breakfast
Breakfast hosted at San Luis Obispo Veterans’ Memorial building
–Last Wednesday, Rep. Lois Capps (D, Santa Barbara) hosted her 5th annual and final Veterans’ Appreciation Breakfast at the SLO Memorial Building in San Luis Obispo. The breakfast gave Capps the opportunity to thank local veterans for their dedicated service to our country and connect them with resources and local organizations.
Casework for veterans makes up a significant portion of Capps’s district casework, with more than 300 local veterans and military members being assisted by her office in 2015. Veterans’ services have been a longtime priority of Capps, whose late husband, Congressman Walter Capps, raised public awareness and understanding of the plight of Vietnam veterans as a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the 1970s.
As a member of Congress, Capps says she has been honored to work with veterans and provide constituent services to ensure access to benefits and assistance with health care, home loans, and other fiduciary issues.
Capps released the following statement regarding the San Luis Obispo breakfast:
“Working on behalf of our veterans has been one of the great honors of my career. Our vets, who have bravely put themselves in harm’s way to defend our freedom and sacrificed so much, deserve our utmost care and respect when they return home. I always treasure the opportunity to meet with these service members and get to know them and hear their stories personally. The assistance my office can provide to ensure veterans receive the support and benefits they have earned is a civic duty I proudly take part in.”
