A Civic Virtue Primer:  A Life Thusly lived by Councilman Dan Adams

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    Dr. Dan Adams

    I found my first life’s passion in June of 1965 as a senior medical student; I was attending a patient who needed his aortic valve replaced.  He died on the table ten hours later.  But I knew then that I had found my life’s challenge.   High level sports had taught me how to maximally produce, but my study of the fascinating human body was never satisfied and made me a life-time learner…even to this day.   Ten years later, I finally was able to have my first independent job in Missoula MT, a beautiful college town with a too low cardiac surgery patient load.   In 1982, I made my home in Evansville, a fine Midwestern city that I have come to love deeply and know I will never leave.

    In 1999, a little event tipped me into a totally different path.    I tripped over a wire in my OR.   Slowly, a life-threatening clot propagated in my leg, and it almost killed me twice.   Recovering, I made a pact with God to find another way to continue to help people.   After some years of searching and obtaining an MBA, city politics attracted me, finding my second life’s passion.   I was elected to our City Council, fulfilling my promise in 2007.

    Since then, being retired allows me to meet the job’s variable demands.   I have used my decades of complicated problem solving to hone my skills.  Always independently looking for the correct answers from fresh outside data …  not the expedient ones,  my voting record reflects consistent results of closely  listening to all my constituents’ needs… both big and small.   I have assiduously endeavored to produce common sense solutions that create taxpayer value.   I wish to bring the Allied Health Consortium project to completion.

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    1. Dan Adams ignored the SBOA Whitewash, did not seem to think that was within his scope of work.

      He claims he is ” always independently looking for the correct answers from fresh outside data”. Not the case with the SBOA Whitewash of the 2012 Audit.

      No Dan, no vote for you.

      • Green light. That SBOA event was covered up by all on the City Council and the Mayor. I’m not sure why they did that and I didn’t like it either but that would not stop me from voting for Dan if I could. He is a man of good character and will do what’s right for the city most all the time.

        I wondered why Dan retired. A blood clot in the leg is never a good thing. I’ve had a blood clot develop in my heart one time and some one else close to me had a blood clot develop in their right leg. I was lucky that mine was controlled with medicine and it slowly dissolved or failed to grow as they say. A blood clot in the leg can break loose and flow into the heat and or lungs and cause death. So it’s a serious event that has to be treated.

        Good luck in the next election Dan.

        • Your juxtaposition of ‘covered up by all on City Council’ and ‘he is a man of good character’ is alarming to me !

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