UPDATE: Watchdog Wire was able to confirm that Dr. Alexander worked at the Herman Kiefer clinic when this follow-up story from August was posted.
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Where is Disgraced Michigan Abortionist Dr. Robert Alexander?
That is certainly a good question! I certainly would like to know Dr. Alexander’s whereabouts. Remember the follow-up to my original article that detailed the case against the disgraced Doc? Nobody seems to know where Dr. Alexander is these days.
My June 27 follow-up article welcoming the entire Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee to my “Wall of Shame” finally got a little bit of attention, although I had to work at getting it. It was worth it since no one on the committee responded to my first article. I was perusing Facebook on June 27 and discovered that I was Facebook friends with the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Rick Jones.
I have no idea when I became friends with Sen. Jones, but I sent him a link to my “Wall of Shame” article via Facebook as I never received any response from his office about my first article. Although he claims I didn’t “get under his skin,” I really don’t believe it since he immediately responded. See my exchange with Sen. Jones below:
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I did not appreciate the way Senator Jones handled himself on Facebook. Senator Jones even emailed me that the committee “grilled LARA on why this guy had a license.” Like I didn’t know that? Senator Jones obviously did not read my first article, which was hyperlinked to the June 27 follow-up where I linked to the April 30, 2013 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yes Senator, I know the judiciary committee grilled LARA because I watched the Target 8 clip of the hearing where LARA was grilled numerous times.
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Sen. Rick Jones, Chairman of the MI Senate Judiciary Committee
I have a philosophy when it comes to elected officials. I view elected officials as employees of mine. I pay taxes that pay their salaries, so if I have a question or an issue, I expect it to be addressed within a reasonable time by elected officials who are accountable to me .
If an elected official does not care to even respond to an email (you can see my email to Sen. Jones here), they have a couple of options. They can either come out of the tall grass and answer my questions, or they can run for it.
I am a taxpayer. My state tax dollars help pay all of the salaries of the elected officials, so they should be polite to me at all times, and I do not handle being “brushed off” by my employees very well .
What’s even more interesting is that after Senator Jones brushed me off and said on Facebook, “I need to get back to work…” I got a call from Jason from his office that very afternoon.
Jason informed me via voice mail, “The media has been there [the Herman Kiefer Health Clinic in Detroit] and they said that he is not working there anymore. So one of the issues right now is that nobody seems to know where this guy is at.”
Gee, how reassuring. Why did the State of Michigan fail to look into his status? Dr. Alexander still has a full medical license, so where is he? This guy needs to be watched because he is, by most accounts, one bad dude.
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Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker, Vice Chair of the MI Senate Judiciary Committee
Jason directed me to the office of Senator Tonya Schuitmaker, the Vice Chair of the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee. He said she is heading up the legislative package regarding the Board of Medicine, which falls under the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.
This is when the experience with my elected employees made a turn for the better.
Derek Sova, Senator Schuitmaker’s Communications Director, phoned me to tell me that he had received my second article. Evidently my first article did not arrive to Senator Schuitmaker’s office.
Some Michigan Senators have direct email addresses and some have e-forms on their office websites. Senator Schuitmaker has such an e-form system set up for e-mail inquiries. Those types of messages are not saved in the sender’s e-mail “sent” folder.
Perhaps the first email indeed got hung up in Senator Schuitmaker’s system.
The conversation I had with Derek was very pleasant, and he represents Senator Schuitmaker’s office in a very positive and professional manner. We talked for quite a while regarding Dr. Alexander.
I told Derek about my concerns and he told me about the package of Michigan Senate bills that Senator Schuitmaker is working on which will be introduced in the Fall 2013 session. I asked him if he could please send me an email regarding this new package of legislation, and he did so by the end of the day (see below, click for larger version).
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I am very impressed thus far with how Senator Schuitmaker and Derek Sova are handling the issue of Dr. Alexander. Michigan taxpayers deserve to have peace of mind knowing that Michigan’s doctors are of good character, and that they run clean and safe practices for patients. A better system of checks and balances is needed.
As for any Senator who does not address the malpractice of state-funded Michigan doctos, rest assured they will be called out of the tall grass, and I will create a new Wall of Shame just for them.
I will continue to follow up on the status of Dr. Alexander’s license. It is my hope that his license is the first to be terminated. If there is any sort of public hearing that I can attend regarding Dr. Alexander, I will do so if possible.
Until then, I will be researching another topic to write about, but that one may take a little time. Stay tuned!