LeRoy Cossette is a Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran. He has served as Health Care Administrator with the Department of Veterans Affairs for thirty-two years. He spent the last eleven years at VA Headquarters in Washington, eight years as Chief of Policy and Operations and the last two years as Acting Director of Headquarters Health Administrative Service. During the eleven years in Washington, he worked closely with members of Congress and White House staff regarding Veterans issues. Served two two-year terms as township Counselman. Following retirement volunteered as a fire fighter and EMT for nine years followed by co-owner of private business. Cossette is currently active with the GOP and a District Captain and Content Writer for the Convention of States Action movement. He is also a political activist and writer of political Op-eds for news media.