LMV is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that helps
improve the health and well-being of the peoples of Mexico and
Central America through the provision of no-cost, high-quality
healthcare and health education clinics in rural villages in
northern Mexico (northern Sonora and Baja), El Salvador, Guatemala,
and Honduras; and among migrant labor populations in the Coachella
Valley of the southwestern United States (southern California).
"Given that no commercial flights were available that
would allow Senator Brown to make the vote and to attend services
memorializing his mother, the administration provided government
transportation to ensure that he could do so."
Source: An unnamed White House spokesman. In an
inadvertent illustration of the practical advantages of non-airline
flight -- the very method of travel now condemned by the White
House and many lawmakers, it's worth pointing out -- a US senator
was provided with the use of a government plane by the Obama
administration to commute between Washington, DC and his home in
Ohio.
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