Claims: “I have no
connections to President Obama”
PHOENIX
– It’s a
tough time to be a Democrat in Arizona. Just ask Richard
Carmona.
For
months, Democrats and the media have spun that Arizona is “in play” for
President Obama and his fellow Democrats in 2012. But reality is setting in
fast. Arizonans are not happy with the way Democrats have been running
Washington. Our economy is still sputtering, unemployment remains at record
highs, and the debt and deficit has exploded beyond belief.
Enter
liberal Democrat Richard Carmona, who was personally recruited by President
Obama last year to run for Senate in the hopes of giving us more of what we’ve
had in recent years. Things like Obamacare, bailouts, and stimulus
spending.
But in a
surprising television interview with KTVK 3 in Phoenix, Carmona now is
attempting to distance himself from the president, claiming that he has “no
connections to President Obama.” As we saw in Wisconsin yesterday, President
Obama is a political hot potato that has Democratic candidates on the
run.
KTVK 3’s
revealing report, and the interview, can be seen here: http://www.azfamily.com/news/politics/Dem-Senate-hopeful-I-have-no-connections-to-President-Obama--157267085.html
“Richard
Carmona’s public retreat from President Obama is an embarrassing ploy to save
his political skin,” said
Andrew Wilder, communications director for the Flake campaign. “It’s strains credulity to claim that he
now has ‘no connections’ to the very person who recruited him to run in the
first place. I guess that’s gratitude for you.”
Arizona
voters aren’t going to buy it. Running as the top Democrat in Arizona, recruited
by the president himself, with no discernable daylight between the two on the
issues, Carmona’s electoral fate is inextricably linked to President Obama.
Wilder
noted, “Even if Richard Carmona runs
away from President Obama himself, he won’t be able to run away from the
albatross of supporting his policies. Carmona is Arizona’s highest-profile
backer of Obamacare, the president’s signature policy
achievement.”
For more
information on Jeff Flake and why he’s running for the U.S. Senate, please visit
his website at www.JeffFlake.com.
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