Law enforcement career

[Ptah]

He worked for the Pima County Sheriff's Department since 1986. He eventually
worked his way up to deputy sheriff. He served as medical director of the county's
police and fire departments. He was a peace officer leader of the SWAT division,
with expertise in special operations and emergency preparedness, including weapons of mass destruction.

In 1999, he confronted a mentally-ill person who was assaulting someone else at a car accident.
After the person would not step out of his car, he shot at Carmona, grazing his head,
and the Deputy Sheriff shot back seven times, killing him.


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

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He's got my vote!

[josejimenez]

1. He has a fine background

If he is already sympathetic to his heritage even better. If he is not perhaps he can be persuaded. It's an important cause.

[Ptah]

2. Which heritage would that be?

[mvccd1000]

3. Law enforcement heritage? :)

Military heritage?

New York City heritage?

Puerto Rican heritage?

Hard to say; the poster wasn't very specific.

Regardless, he sounds like an interesting person; much more into actions than words (doesn't that disqualify him from politics???).

From Time Magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,221152,00.html#ixzz1a95hdUsl

Yet there are some job hazards Carmona may not be so prepared for. His record as an administrator is mixed. After he took over Pima County's struggling public-health-care system in 1997, it continued to lose millions of dollars, and he was forced to resign.

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One thing seems certain: Carmona won't be fazed by an emergency. After a medevac helicopter crashed into the side of a mountain in 1992, he saved the only survivor by dangling from another chopper on a rope, hooking the wounded paramedic to himself and carrying him to safety three miles away. Match that, Dr. Koop.