How Well Do You Know Richard Carmona?

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1. zoo says:

   October 2, 2012 at 11:42 am

   How well do you know Richard Carmona?

   DID you know that the Arizona Republican Party solicited Carmona twice when he was U.S. Surgeon General to run as a Republican:

   1. Against Janet Napolitano for the Governor of Arizona?

   2. Against Gabriel Giffords for the U.S. House in Arizona CD 8?

   So those of you who think Carmona is another wild-eyed leftist Democrat should remember the Arizona GOP apparently thought he wasn’t, just a few years ago.

   You should also remember that Jeff Flake is simply a candidate for heel-clicking party hacks. The Arizona GOP threw the issue of illegal immigration in the garbage when they tripped over themselves to vote for Flake over Wil Cardon. So Flake’s candidacy is NOT because he is perceived to be the best candidate, it is simply to carry on the McCain Machine’s status quo, stranglehold on our representation in the U.S. Senate, and to allow John McCain to pick our Congressional representatives that fit his agenda. That agenda is amnesty for illegal aliens, so that McCain and his beer baroness drug-addicted wife can make zillions selling Bud Light [Mexican holy water] to several hundred thousand amnestied squatters and welfare dregs AT YOUR EXPENSE AS AN ARIZONA TAXPAYER.

   Tell McCain and the Arizona GOP to shove it up their sphincter. Vote for Richard Carmona 2012!

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2. Conservative American says:

   October 2, 2012 at 12:27 pm

   Let’s stop beating around the bush and compare Flake and Carmona head to head.

   Here’s Flake’s bio from his campaign website:

   “Jeff Flake”

   “Biography”

   “Jeff Flake, presently serving his sixth term in Congress, represents the Sixth Congressional District of Arizona. This district includes parts of Mesa and Chandler and all of Gilbert, Queen Creek, and Apache Junction. Jeff serves on the House Committee on Appropriations.”

   “Jeff is a fifth-generation Arizonan, raised on a ranch in Snowflake, Arizona (the town was named, in part, after Jeff’s great-great grandfather). After serving a Mormon mission in southern Africa, Jeff graduated from Brigham Young University, where he received a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Political Science. More importantly, it was at BYU that Jeff met his wife, Cheryl.”

   “In 1987, Jeff started his career at a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C. Soon thereafter, Jeff moved to the southern African nation of Namibia. As the Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy, a foundation monitoring Namibia’s independence process, he saw the nation usher in freedom and democracy. In 1992, Jeff and his family moved back to Arizona where he was named Executive Director of the Goldwater Institute. In this role, Jeff worked to promote a conservative philosophy of less government, more freedom, and individual responsibility.”

   “Jeff and Cheryl have been married 26 years and live in Mesa. They have five children.”

   http://flake.house.gov/biography

   Here is Ricard Carmona’s bio from his website:

   “Born to a poor Hispanic family in New York City, Dr. Richard Carmona experienced homelessness, hunger and bleak prospects for a future education and economic opportunity. The child of parents who emigrated to the United States and struggled with alcoholism and substance abuse, Rich learned tough early lessons about economic disparities and social injustice – an experience he has never forgotten, and one that has given him an understanding of how culture, health, education and economic status shape our country.”

   “Like his siblings and many of his friends, Rich dropped out of high school. With few skills and little education, he enlisted in the Army and went to Vietnam. Military service gave him discipline and a drive to succeed that he still carries today. In order to apply for Special Forces and become a combat medic, he earned his high school equivalency degree. Rich left the Army a combat-decorated veteran, with two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, a combat medical badge and numerous other decorations to mark his service.”

   “When he returned home from Vietnam, Rich became the first member of his family to earn a college degree. Through open enrollment reserved for returning veterans, he attended Bronx Community College and earned an Associate of Arts degree. Later he went to the University of California, San Francisco, and worked as a registered nurse while he earned a bachelors of science degree. Two years later, Rich completed his medical degree – receiving the prestigious gold-headed cane as the school’s top graduate.”

   “Trained in general and vascular surgery, Dr. Carmona also completed a National Institutes of Health-sponsored fellowship in trauma, burns, and critical care. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Carmona was recruited jointly by the Tucson Medical Center and the University of Arizona to start and direct Southern Arizona’s first regional trauma care system. He, his wife Diane and their children relocated to Tucson.”

   “Dr. Carmona would later become chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System, a professor of surgery, public health and family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department surgeon.”

   “While continuing his medical career, Rich’s call to service led him to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in which he has served for more than 25 years as a deputy sheriff, detective, department surgeon and SWAT Team Leader. In 1992, he rappelled from a helicopter to rescue a paramedic stranded on a mountainside when their medevac helicopter crashed during a snow storm, inspiring a made-for-TV movie. In the course of his service, Rich received the National Top Cop Award and was named the National SWAT Officer of the Year.”

   “In 2002, Carmona was nominated by the president and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to become the 17th Surgeon General of the United States. As Surgeon General, Carmona focused on prevention, health disparities and emergency preparedness to protect the nation against epidemics and bio-terrorism. He also issued a groundbreaking report on the dangers of second-hand smoke.”

   “While very successful as Surgeon General, he unfortunately also experienced the divisive politics that continue to plague Washington today — where the desire to score political points has become more important than solving problems, creating jobs or providing for those in need. That experience guides his current mission to become Arizona’s next senator and change how Washington works.”

   “In 2007, Dr. Carmona testified before Congress that political appointees had put partisan politics ahead of science — especially when it came to the public’s health — in hopes that shining a light on how the administration operated could bring change. He testified: “The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation, not the doctor of a political party.”

   “Knowing he stood up and did the right thing, Rich returned to Tucson and became vice chairman Canyon Ranch, a nationally renowned health and wellness company. He also serves as president of the nonprofit Canyon Ranch Institute. While Rich also resumed his service as a Pima County deputy sheriff, he became the first Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.”

   http://www.carmonaforarizona.com/richs-story

   Is there any comparison at all? Ricard Carmona is a self-made man. He faced adversity and overcame it. He served in combat in the Army’s Special Forces during the Vietnam war and was awarded, among other awards and decorations, TWO Bronze Stars. The don’t hand those out for pushing papers in Washington, D. C.!

   The fact that Richard Carmona has also served in law enforcement in Arizona gives him an entirely different perspcetive from Flake who has never put himself in the line of fire either in the military or in law enforcement.

   The choice is between a career Washington, D. C. politician and someone who has spent most of his life outside of the beltway dealing with the sometimes harsh realities of life, war and law enforcement.

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3. LEO IN TSN says:

   October 3, 2012 at 6:11 am

   Isn’t the Club for Growth one of those COC clubs that believes granting amnesty to 40 – 50 million illegal aliens will immediately discourage millions of more illegals from coming here to provide cheap labor for what should be American jobs, and for those 40 – 50 million amnesty will have no effect on increasing entitlements, declining healthcare & gov’t education, epidemics of diseases that had been eradicated, loss of jobs for American workers, increased costs of law enforcement to search for amnestied criminals & terrorists, more court & prison costs, loss of Constitutional Rights for American Citizens, bigger gov’t & more regulation to accommodate them all, higher taxes on the remaining American workers to pay for them all, higher insurance costs to Americans, higher taxes, higher taxes and higher taxes?

   Isn’t that the Club for Growth?

   God bless America.

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   • Conservative American says:

     October 3, 2012 at 12:41 pm

     Cancer is a “growth”.

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   • Reality Check says:

     October 3, 2012 at 12:50 pm

     No. That isn’t the Club for Growth. The Club for Growth doesn’t take a position one way or another on that issue as an organization. It backs candidates with a whole range of views on immigration. For example, in Arizona, the Club for Growth backed Ron Gould for Congress against Gosar. Ron Gould is about as anti-amnesty as they come.

     The Club for Growth is the main conservative organization that has been sucessfully taking down Liberal Republicans by backing conservative candidates like Pat Toomey, Ted Cruz, Richard Mourdock, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, etc., etc.

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     • zoo says:

       October 3, 2012 at 12:57 pm

       So you think Marco “Amnesty” Rubio is a conservative, just like Jeff “Amnesty” Flake? Those imported wangers are making your teeth crooked.

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       • Reality Check says:

         October 3, 2012 at 2:27 pm

         Now you don’t like Rubio? Your list is getting longer and longer….

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         • zoo says:

           October 3, 2012 at 2:48 pm

           Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth; the list serves as a “vote for” guide for libtards.

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     • Conservative American says:

       October 3, 2012 at 1:28 pm

       Liberal Check wrote: “The Club for Growth doesn’t take a position one way or another on that issue as an organization. It backs candidates with a whole range of views on immigration.”

       “What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!”

       Chris Chocola, who runs the Club for Growth, backed Mike Pence as a Republican presidential candidate.

       “Mike Pence’s “W” worker visa illegal alien amnesty scheme”

       “Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has introduced a “middle-ground” illegal alien amnesty scheme. It seeks to split the difference between the full-on amnesty in the Senate and the supposed only other choice of mass deportations. (As usual, the other choice of simply enforcing our current laws is not mentioned).”

       Oddly enough, the plan is strangely similar to what JEFF FLAKE wrote into his STRIVE Act illegal alien amnesty legislation! Who would have thunk it!

       Have a nice day, Liberal Check!

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       • Reality Check says:

         October 3, 2012 at 2:26 pm

         The position of Chris Chocola on immigration is his own. It is not the position of the Club for Growth. The Club for Growth didn’t back Mike Pence as an organization either. That is Chocola’s own personal endorsement.

         The Club for Growth doesn’t have a position one way or the other on immigration. Plently of members of the Club for Growth are one side or another of the immigration issue. As I pointed out earlier, the Club for Growth backed Ron Gould.

         The Club for Growth also is currently endorsing Matt Salmon and is very close to Schweikert. Are they all now guilty by association in your eyes?

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         • Conservative American says:

           October 3, 2012 at 6:05 pm

           Realiity Check wrote: “Are they all now guilty by association in your eyes?”

           No, guilty by being completely willing to support candidates who support illegal alien amnesty schemes!

           It’s like being pregnant. Either you are or your aren’t. There is no such thing as being “a little pregnant”. Either you oppose illegal alien amnesty schemes or you don’t.

           You remind me of the hangman who says: “I didn’t kill him. I just dropped the trap!” Support illegal alien amnesty as a matter of policy OR support it through supporting candidates who support it and the end result is the same; illegal alien amnesty!

           Have a nice day, Liberal Check!

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