CDC chief's resume includes 'Big Gulp' ban
Posted By Jerome R. Corsi On 10/17/2014

NEW YORK – The public face of the foundering Obama administration response to the Ebola crisis has a history of left-leaning activism and fashions himself as a “community organizer,” much as the president who appointed him in 2009.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, previously served as commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2002 to 2009 under New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Under Bloomberg, Frieden was the architect of a variety of initiatives, from the prohibition of smoking citywide to the attempted “Big Gulp” ban that the New York State Supreme Court struck down as “arbitrary and capricious.”

Frieden saw government-engineered curbing of soda sales a way to combat obesity while many New Yorkers resented it as a “Nanny State” intrusion into their private lives.

In 2004, the New York Times characterized Frieden as a health-care activist.

“In some ways, Dr. Frieden, who is 43 and is married with one child, is inheriting a tradition of active health commissioners that retreated during the Giuliani administration, when public health was a back-burner issue,” reporter Jennifer Steinhauer wrote in a Times article titled “Gladly Taking the Blame for Health in the City.”

“Although Mayor Bloomberg has taken both the credit and the grief for the ban on smoking, the restaurant fines, and the opposition to a bill on lead paint hazards, insiders on each issue know that the health commissioner is the one who developed these policies.”

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“Public health has one underlying philosophy, and one underlying methodology,” Frieden said, according to the Times. “The underlying philosophy is social justice, and methodology is using data to improve decisions.”

The term “social justice” is typically used in reference to progressive public programs implemented by Democratic Party administrations to bring about societal change.

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