Crist backer Gary Kompothecras bullies Florida health officials

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Crist backer Gary Kompothecras bullies Florida health officials

"This madness has got to stop. No more double talk. This should be a fairly straightforward study. I feel that there are hidden agendas going on and I will not stand by let it continue!! I will not wait any longer," reads an email dated August 6 from Dr. Gary Kompothecras to Dr. Julia Gill, director of the Florida Department of Health's (DOH) Division of Disease Control.

Coming from anyone else, the blustery email threat might be easily dismissed. But "Dr. Gary," as Kompothecras is known, is the self-styled "Rainmaker," a Sarasota chiropractor who has raised more than $1 million over the years for Senate candidate and soon-to-be ex-governor Charlie Crist.

So it's bound to turn heads when the man known to occasionally lend his private jet to the governor uses his political clout to try to bully Florida health officials into turning over scores of the state's sealed immunization records. Especially when they're for a father-son team, Dr. Mark and David Geier, infamous for injecting autistic children with Lupron, a drug used to chemically castrate prostate cancer patients and pedophiles.

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A well-placed source within Florida government, who asked to remain anonymous, claims the governor's office has been putting "political pressure" on the DOH to submit to the Geiers' demands. Turning over the sealed immunization records, the source says, would be "reckless, careless, shortsighted, and politically motivated."

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...the data the Geiers seek for their Florida study contains patients' addresses and social security numbers.

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http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-09-30/news/crist-backer-gary-kompothecras-bullies-florida-health-officials/

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1. Good Lord... This is frightening...

Such political bullying of the system may well put these kids at risk of a horrifically unprincipled researcher. We have to get this corrupt $$ out of elections. It just cascades. But, in the meantime, I'd hate to be the head of the DOH. What a nightmare.

On edit, I suspect she is doing the only thing left to her, getting the word out to the media in hopes of a major backlash. I hope she gets it.