Posted on 03/08/2007 9:18:29 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has handed control of the obscure Board of Chiropractic Examiners to appointees, including two friends from his bodybuilding days, who fired the executive director, ejected a deputy attorney general from a meeting and took other controversial actions in what a critic described as a "coup."
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"It was a coup," said former board member Barbara Stanfield, who attended the March 1 meeting. "They said, 'This is what we're going to do,' and they did it."
Stanfield said Schwarzenegger appointees to the board, including two-time Mr. Olympia Franco Columbu, have made clear in public meetings that they want to rein in what they see as excessive regulation of chiropractors.
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After the firing of Executive Director Catherine Hayes last week, newly elected board chairman Richard Tyler took over as "interim" executive director -- a highly unusual dual role as an administrator and member of a state board.
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"The prevailing problem with the Board can be summarized in one word: lawless," Deputy Attorney General Jana Tuton wrote ...
Schwarzenegger has credited Tyler with helping to launch him into stardom as a young bodybuilder. Tyler, an editor working for bodybuilding entrepreneur Joe Weider, picked up Schwarzenegger from the airport when he first arrived in California in 1968, according to an article Schwarzenegger wrote for Flex magazine.
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Tyler, 74, received his chiropractic license in 1969, according to state records. Schwarzenegger appointed him to the board in August 2004. ...
Schwarzenegger appointed Columbu, another friend who was key to his early bodybuilding career, in February 2006. Columbu, who got his chiropractic license in 1977, did not respond to phone calls.
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The past two Administrators of the FAA have no flying experience. Why should the board that regulates chiropractors have any medical training?
Don't get me started on "chiropractic ".............
Quackropractors?
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