Carmona: Giffords’ office wants him to mull race

[Ptah]

Source: Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)


Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona says Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ office has asked
him to consider a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated next year by Sen. Jon Kyl.

Giffords at one time had been mentioned as a potential candidate for the seat, but her
name now seldom surfaces in lists of potential candidates.

She is recovering from a gunshot wound she suffered during a January at a political
event in Tucson and hasn’t revealed her future political plans.

Carmona declined to say who in Giffords’ office approached him and said he
hasn’t yet decided whether to run for the seat.

Read more: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_2176d102-e612-11e0-aa23-001cc4c03286.html

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I hope he runs.
I'll support him.

[Ptah]

1. Some information about his time a Surgeon General

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona#Political_interference

On July 10, 2007, Carmona, along with former Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and David Satcher,
testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about political
and ideological interference with the Surgeon General's mission. Carmona accused the Bush Administration
of preventing him from speaking out on certain public health issues such as embryonic stem cell research,
global climate change,<8> emergency contraception, and abstinence-only sex education, where the
Administration's political stance conflicted with scientific and medical opinion.<9>

Carmona also testified that the Bush Administration had attempted for years to "water down" his report
on the dangers of secondhand smoke and pressured him not to testify in the tobacco industry's racketeering trial:
"Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda
is ignored, marginalized or simply buried."<10><11> According to Carmona, he was even ordered not to attend
the Special Olympics because the event was sponsored by the Kennedy family, and was told to mention
President Bush three times on every page of his speeches.<6> The Washington Post subsequently identified
William R. Steiger as the Bush Administration official who had blocked release of Carmona's report on
global health because it conflicted with the Administration's political priorities.<12>

Reuters reported that Carmona's predecessors as Surgeon General had acknowledged the high level of political
interference he experienced, saying: "We have never seen it as partisan, as malicious, as vindictive,
as mean-spirited as it is today, and you clearly have worse than anyone's had."<10>

[GoldenOldie]

2. Carmona to replace Kyle...YES

I know for sure, that Dr. Carmona would have 8-supporters from my immediate family alone.....and one of them a Republican. With Gabby's endorsement and the support of all those that actually have benefited (to numerous to count) from Dr. Carmona's tireless years of working and volunteering in all of Arizona, he would be an outstanding candidate.

[No Elephants]

6. Information he gave after he left office.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Oh hell yeah!

[Firebrand Gary]

4. I love Carmona!

Picking up that seat is a must for us and I think Carmona is the man to do it.

[No Elephants]

5. Someone asked a Republican to run as a Democrat for the Senate?

Tell me again about the huge difference between New Democrats and Republicans?

[okieinpain]

7. if the women is willing to endorse him, he should get up off his

ass and run. it's the least he could do, man no wonder dems are always looking over their shoulders.