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marmar

(77,073 posts)
Tue Jun 4, 2013, 05:48 PM Jun 2013

How does the GOP find so much human waste?


WASHINGTON -- Alaska Republicans have elected new party leaders, including a man who once said the disappearance of Alaska Natives may be justified and who advocated for the end of federal assistance to these communities.

The state Republican Party named Dr. David Eichler, a dentist from the city of North Pole, as its new vice chair on May 25.

In 2006, as president of the Alaska Dental Society, Eichler came under fire for claiming that Alaska Natives' tooth decay was a cultural deficit that could "rightfully" lead to the culture's demise. As the Anchorage Daily News reported:

"Any culture that allows such disease will soon disappear and rightfully so," he wrote. He also urged the end of federal assistance to America's indigenous peoples, saying that to do so would "allow their integration into American society as dignified citizens."


Eichler made the comments in the midst of a lawsuit pushing to allow dental therapists to do the work of fully licensed dentists -- a move that advocates said would help alleviate the extreme shortage of dentists in some of the rural areas of Alaska. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/alaska-gop-vice-chair_n_3385052.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037



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How does the GOP find so much human waste? (Original Post) marmar Jun 2013 OP
The GOP doesn't have to find them .... etherealtruth Jun 2013 #1
Because the GOP is like a cess pit intaglio Jun 2013 #2
I picture Dr. Eichler looking something like Enrique Jun 2013 #3

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
1. The GOP doesn't have to find them ....
Tue Jun 4, 2013, 05:52 PM
Jun 2013

They are drawn to GOP like moths to a flame.

It never ceases to amaze me how a person can receive so much education (DDS) yet be completely ignorant on so many levels

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