DENVER -- A new ad attacking U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., on her record on veterans' issues has facts but also misleading claims.

The ad was examined as part of the CALL7 Investigators' Vote08:Facts or Fiction series.

"As a soldier in Iraq, I was trained to expect the worst," the ad starts out. "Yet, during these tough times, Marilyn Musgrave voted against a $1,500 bonus for service members like me?"

Musgrave did vote against a $1,500 bonus for service members so the claim in this ad is fact.

Musgrave's campaign said she voted against the bonus because the money would have come from Iraqi reconstruction, and she voted for another bill that increased salaries and other benefits for the military.

The group running the ad contends there is plenty of money for reconstruction and that veterans needed the extra cash for bills.

"While taking more than $14,000 in pay raises for herself," the ad continues.

Musgrave did receive more than $14,000 in pay increases since she was elected in 2002 to Congress, but so did every other member of the House of Representatives.

The increase was an annual cost of living raise passed years before Musgrave entered the House. She voted several times against the pay raise but she was not in the majority in those votes.

So it is misleading to imply Musgrave worked for pay raises for herself while rejecting a bonus for military personnel.

The ad is being run by VoteVets.org, a non-partisan, non-profit group, that says it is exposing legislators who vote against veterans’ issues.

The group has contributed to both Republicans and Democrats but all of its attacks this year are against Republicans.

Musgrave’s campaign manager said she supported a lot of legislation that will help veterans and her son in the Navy so she is not an opponent of veterans' issues.