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* Republican gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski announced his running mate today. Her name is Carrie Mendoza, an emergency medicine physician and activist. Oddly, Mendoza didn’t speak at today’s announcement (even though Dabrowski’s mother did) and neither candidate took questions from the media. As I write this, no press release has been issued. So, we’re kinda flying blind and we decided to put together a quick look at her background.
…Adding… We just received the release. Only a brief mention of his running mate…
Joining Ted Dabrowski on the ticket is Dr. Carrie Mendoza, a 25-year ER physician, mom of three, and longtime advocate for the quality of care of patients and against the political corruption of healthcare.
* Like her husband Myles Mendoza (who helped pass the state’s now-defunct tuition tax credit program when he ran Empower Illinois), Carrie Mendoza is a school vouchers advocate.
Dabrowski and Ms. Mendoza spoke at an event this past spring sponsored by the Liberty Justice Center: “Legal landscape of trans-related issues in schools and society: Liberty Justice Center talks to a full house at Mallinckrodt”
* From Wikipedia…
FAIR in Medicine program is led by Carrie Mendoza, an advisor to Genspect and Detrans help. It attempts to distinguish “talk therapy” from other forms of conversion therapy and has opposed a Department of Homeland Security nondiscrimination rule covering gender identity.[32] FAIR made comments to the Department of Education opposing Title IX nondiscrimination protections for transgender students.[32]
FAIR in Medicine’s website is here.
* The Record Community News Group…
A novel that has been on New Trier High School’s reading list for six years drew the aim of a subset of district parents on Monday, June 7, during the monthly board of education meeting. […]
Dr. Carrie Mendoza, a Glencoe resident and New Trier Neighbors board member, was one of four speakers who referred to one scene in the book as “soft porn” and claimed it was not appropriate for the sophomore class.
* NBC News…
J.P. Leider, a University of Minnesota health policy researcher who oversaw the state’s tool to help Covid patients determine if they qualified for treatment, said that political groups may succeed in halting race-conscious policies, “but that doesn’t mean that those disparities don’t exist.”
“They’re very real, and they’re very measurable,” he said of health inequities.
Some medical professionals have pushed back on the utility of race-conscious policies in health care, saying they can interfere with the doctor-patient relationship.
“I would want to teach the trainees to look at each patient as an individual, and what their unique identity is, and the unique situation going on with them,” said Dr. Carrie Mendoza, a Chicago-based physician who leads the medicine chapter for the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, an advocacy group formed last year to oppose “woke ideology.” “Not lumping them into a group — that’s kind of dehumanizing.”
* More from Isabel…
* Transgender Map | Carrie D. Mendoza vs. transgender people: In an introductory video, Mendoza likened the “orthodoxy” of gender affirming care to forced sterilizations in Nazi Germany and Iran. […] Mendoza also drafted and distributed an open letter supporting Kenneth Zucker for publishing yet another ethically questionable article in the Archives of Sexual Behavior about “rapid onset gender dysphoria.” Mendoza also had study co-author J. Michael Bailey on to defend the article and Zucker. The paper was later retracted.
* Illinois Families for Public Schools | Dark money orgs on the ground in school board races in Illinois: FAIR’s Illinois chapter coordinator Carrie Mendoza is the wife of Myles Mendoza, former president of Empower Illinois, the group that led the effort to create Illinois’ voucher program (and currently benefits from administering the program as a voucher middleman org that skims millions off the top of the voucher funds they distribute). The former Illinois lobbyist for Betsy DeVos’ American Federation for Children (see below) Nate Hoffman is a member of FAIR’s board of advisors. They have attacked Evanston D65 on issues of race and gender as well as New Trier D203. They attended Evanston High School D202 events in the fall of 2021 to disrupt affinity group activities for parents.
* Southern Poverty Law Center | Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network: The group’s FAIR in Medicine program is led by Dr. Carrie Mendoza, who serves as an adviser to Genspect and Detrans Help – an organization that promotes therapists, doctors and detransitioners who are willing to testify before legislators and lawmakers against affirming care.[82] FAIR in Medicine also manages a “Gender Healthcare Policy Map” and attempts to distinguish “talk therapy” for transgender people from other forms of conversion therapy. Like SEGM, the group opposed a DHS nondiscrimination rule covering gender identity. FAIR, like Do No Harm, was founded to largely oppose anti-racist pedagogies in American education, and its members claim that therapists are trained to tell white patients that they are “oppressors.”[83] It has since become a key voice amplifying anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience.
* NPR Nevada | As some states ban gender-affirming care, Nevadans work to protect it: Mendoza pointed out the fact that there are trans individuals who go through gender-affirming care and later decide to de-transition. “They were feeling optimistic and good through a pathway, and when they got to the end of the pathway, which was surgery for a lot of them, they reflected, ‘Well, this actually didn’t fix some of my problems,’” Mendoza said. “I’m open minded. I want all these kids to do well, but I want to make sure that we aren’t irreparably harming them; causing sterility, or causing worse mental health issues later.”
posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 11:55 am
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Sounds like Dr Mendoza doesn’t have enough going on in her life. Thats a shame.
Comment by low level Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:03 pm
So this isn’t a professional operation. Money can’t paper over incompetence and if you can’t put a team together with this much time then you don’t have a lot of hope of taking on Team Pritzker. You can say whatever you want about them, but at this point they’re a well oiled machine and they don’t lose. You better come ready to go toe to toe or don’t even try. Seems like Ted is firmly in camp not even trying.
Comment by Welllllllllll Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:04 pm
It must be quite the rush to know you’re right all the time. /s
Comment by don the legend Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:04 pm
No better way to convey confidence in your candidacies than not speaking and not taking questions from the press.
More confirmation this is a grift from jump. Just looking to get some sweet right wing sugar daddy cash to spend with crony consultants.
Comment by Moe Berg Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:07 pm
It’s clear all his money isn’t going to a professional team…his announcement was live-streamed by Jeanne Ives and on the front steps of a house…
Comment by NIU Grad Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:07 pm
Fits right in with an IPI/Wirepoints running mate.
Comment by Big Dipper Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:16 pm
“Not lumping them into any group”
Tell that to urban minorities, undocumented people and LGBTQ+ who are targeted and demonized by Republicans. See also widespread elimination of diversity programs.
Comment by Grandson of Man Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:16 pm
I really think most of the Republicans running lately should not pe running for political offices but running to head some religious organization or medical organizations.
Comment by DuPage Saint Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:18 pm
It seems the Illinois Republicans move to the mainstream has been cancelled
Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:18 pm
“running to head some religious organization or medical organizations”.
A goodly number of Democrats now in the General Assembly previously or currently work for labor organizations or for another unit of government.
Comment by Civil Commenter Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:29 pm
Points for brand consistency I guess…
Comment by Panther Pride Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:44 pm
===“Not lumping them into any group”
Except different ‘groups’ have different risks. Understanding individual factors in that context is kind of the point of medicine.
Comment by ArchPundit Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:50 pm
=It’s clear all his money isn’t going to a professional team…his announcement was live-streamed by Jeanne Ives and on the front steps of a house…=
Dude, lighten up, they are establishing their grass roots bonafides. /s bigly
=A goodly number of Democrats now in the General Assembly previously or currently work for labor organizations or for another unit of government.=
Lol. So what.
Comment by JS Mill Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:51 pm
= Except different ‘groups’ have different risks. =
And different presenting symptoms. Women often have symptoms of heart attacks that differ from those that men have. Fortunately, that is recognized now, but it used not to be, and women died as a result.
Comment by JoanP Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:55 pm
“against the political corruption of healthcare”
Oh yeah, she hates the vaccines…
Comment by NIU Grad Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 1:01 pm
I see political mastermind Jason Plummer was on hand. There’s no stopping this dream team now. /S
Comment by Frank Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 1:05 pm
“Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, an advocacy group formed last year to oppose “woke ideology.”
Is this the biggest gaslight ever? lol
Right now many think they are victims of Black and Brown reverse racism.
They want to lump all people into one group that they decide the rules for. Thought they were against social engineering and “communism.”
Comment by Grandson of Man Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 1:14 pm
Loving the geographic diversity of this Wilmette/Glencoe ticket.
Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 1:19 pm
“one scene in the book as “soft porn” and claimed it was not appropriate for the sophomore class.”
That’s a surefire way to get the entire sophomore class to actually read the book.
Dr. Mendoza, convincing kids to read books since 2021. Well done.
Comment by ChrisB Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 1:52 pm
“Loving the geographic diversity of this Wilmette/Glencoe ticket.”
The geographc distance between the Gold Coast (Pritzker) and Bronzeville (Stratton) and Hyde Park (Mitchell) noy much farther than Wilmette to Glencoe
Comment by Civil Commenter Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 1:59 pm
If you don’t run mainstream candidates you don’t get mainstream voters. You also don’t win.
Comment by Pundent Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 2:00 pm
===The geographc distance===
lol
C’mon.
Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 2:02 pm
Buckle up, wokesters.
Comment by Mark Glennon Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 2:48 pm
=- low level - Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 12:03 pm:
Sounds like Dr Mendoza doesn’t have enough going on in her life. Thats a shame.=
Well, if yo want to look at it that way then that could apply to all those who run for political office. Still think that way?
Comment by Mason County Friday, Sep 12, 25 @ 3:14 pm