Posted on 07/14/2006 2:36:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
However, Bush says the information she discussed in the interview was already public record in the ongoing lawsuit between Michael and Terry's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
"The governor feels the actions taken against Sauer-Iyer are not justified and hopes that the complaint will be reconsidered and dismissed," Bush spokesman Russell Schweiss wrote in an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times. "She did not disclose any information which was not already public."
On Thursday, the Florida Department of Health asked the Board of Nursing to dismiss its complaint against Sauer-Iyer.
The nursing board had originally proposed a one-sided deal by which Sauer-Iyer would relinquish her nursing license and pay nearly $1,700 in administrative fees. Her attorney responded by requesting an administrative hearing on the matter and no date has yet been set for it.
Sauer-Iyer, who is employed at the Palm Garden of Largo Convalescent Center, filed an affidavit for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in his attempts to help Terri's parents prevent Terri's death.
Sauer-Iyer said that, after one visit by Michael in Terri's room for 20 minutes with the door shut, Sauer-Iyer found Terri lethargic and "crying hysterically." She checked Terri's blood sugar levels and they were barely showing any reading on the glucometer, she indicated. She also saw a vial of "insulin concealed in the trash bin."
She indicated there were needle marks underneath Terri's breast, under her arms, and in her groin area.
However, in an interview with the Associated Press, Michael, who has been in Colorado to raise money for candidates who favor assisted suicide and euthanasia, blasted Bush.
"This is America. The governor is entitled to be wrong again," he said. "What Carla did is wrong, and what the governor is doing to protect her is wrong. Why does he want to help people who lie?"
Sauer-Iyer told AP she was "glad but not surprised" to hear that Bush was taking her side "since he was instrumental in trying to save Terri's life."
The nursing board began its efforts to revoke Sauer-Iyer's license after a Massachusetts woman filed a complaint with the agency after she watched Sauer-Iyer's CNN interview.
She filed the complaint last March, the day after the interview, saying Iyer made "inflammatory remarks" regarding Michael Schiavo.
Iyer's attorney's have filed papers saying the information Iyer discussed in the CNN interview was a matter of public record at the time.
Iyer explained in an August 2003 affidavit for Terri's parents Bob and Mary Schindler that that Michael would complain when staff would take care of her or feed her. He would also refused to provide her with any rehabilitative treatment.
"[T]hat's therapy -- take that washcloth out," he would tell Iyer.
She said, "it was clear to me at Palm Garden that all decisions regarding Terri Schiavo were made by Michael Schiavo with no allowances made for any discussion, debate or normal professional judgment. My initial training there consists solely of the instruction, 'Do what Michael Schiavo tells you or you will be terminated.'"
"Very few of us were allowed to see Terri," she said. However, she saw enough of Terri to know that she was not in a persistent vegetative state.
Iyer said one of the problems in the long legal battle between Michael and the Schindlers had been courts not fully investigating every complaint and concern.
"That's been the problem the whole time -- [presiding] Judge Greer not looking into all the evidence," Iyer said last year.
Iyer said she has never been interviewed by any of the judges considering Terri's case.
"None of us were able to testify," she said, referring to fellow nurses Heidi Law and Carolyn Johnson, who both filed affidavits to confirm Iyer's contention that Michael withheld medical care and rehabilitative treatment and may have tried to take his wife's life.
In the affidavit, Iyer contends Michael repeatedly asked hospice staff when Terri was going to die, with demeaning questions such as "When is that bitch gonna die?"
Iyer was ultimately fired from her position after filing a police report regarding the insulin incident. She cared for Terri from April 1995 through August 1996.
Related web sites:
Iyer's affidavit
Terri Schiavo's parents - http://www.terrisfight.org
And that is all that really matters.
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"This is America. The governor is entitled to be wrong again," he said. "What Carla did is wrong, and what the governor is doing to protect her is wrong. Why does he want to help people who lie?"
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especially when he has to pay so much money to get people to help him lie.
I hope the nurse gets to keep her license....
Keep the nurse, get rid of the gov....
God bless you Carla Syler RN and a paux on those who convict you for speaking the truth as you saw it.
This was an evil despicable crime killing an innocent woman viciously by dehydration/starvation and sanctioned by the courts. One day and maybe not on earth the truth will be revealed and the wicked evil done here will be exposed fully.
I wish her better luck than the last underdog who had Jeb Bush on her side.
He was on Terri's side too and that didn't work out too well either.
Michael Schiavo is out raising money for Democrats. Big shock, huh?
Maybe he should go hang out with Cindy Sheehan and give her pep talks about how "euphoric" it is to not eat or drink.
He's gone anyway due to term limits.
What is your point?
He has been a good governor for Florida. Why the hostility?
GO BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope that Florida gov is his last job in "public service". He was a wimp on the Terri Schiavo issue. I would not want him representing me in the White House.
It's time to let the Bush and Clinton families find other ways to make their fortunes. I'm tired of all of them. That goes for most of Congress too.
"This is America. The governor is entitled to be wrong again," he said. "What Carla did is wrong, and what the governor is doing to protect her is wrong. Why does he want to help people who lie?
Michael the Megalomaniac
Jeb probably did more than what 99% of what most other govenors would have done. For that, he gets spit on. Just pathetic.
And your choice for a better governor (in office) would be?
Florida gets a lot more hurricanes than Louisiana and yet look at the difference in the way the storms were handled.
When the hours of hurricane coverage gets long, people tend to drop their guard and really be themselves. Jeb is 100% WYSIWYG (what you see is what you got).
Good for Jeb.
Amen to that. Good for Jeb. I could argue that he owed us one (and a lot more), but this isn't the moment :-)
Cindy's "movie star" fast for peace is hilarious. All these Hollywood ninnies are going to join Cindy in not eating any Brie or sipping any Chardonnay for 24 hours -- per person. It's a new thing on this earth, a "rolling fast," meaning that at the end of the day, the burden is passed along to another person who will give up Perrier and little black caviar thingies on a bed of Italian Mascarpone on imported French crackers.
Nobody has to do anything.......... difficult. And they are all trying to shed five pounds anyway.
As far as I can see, their efforts have not only failed to end war in Iraq, they have started a whole new war in Lebanon.
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