Jeffrey Lane "Jeff" Flake (born December 31, 1962) is the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 6th congressional district, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was featured in the documentary series How Democracy Works Now: Twelve Stories.
Flake is running for a seat in the United States Senate in 2012.
Flake was born in Snowflake, Arizona, the son of Nerita (née Hock) and Dean Maeser Flake. His birth town was named in part for his great-great-grandfather, Mormon pioneer William J. Flake. Flake was educated at Brigham Young University and was a Mormon missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to South Africa in the early 1980s. He worked in the public affairs sector after college and served as Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Namibia and Executive Director of the Goldwater Institute before entering the House of Representatives.
Flake was first elected to what was then Arizona's 1st congressional district in 2000, after Republican incumbent Matt Salmon stepped down in honor of a self-imposed term limit. The district was then renumbered to the 6th district as Arizona gained two Congressional seats due to the results of the 2000 census.
Martin T. Heinrich (born October 17, 1971) is the U.S. Representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district, serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes the central area of the state, in and around Albuquerque.
Heinrich was born in Fallon, Nevada, the son of Shirley A. (née Bybee) and Pete C. Heinrich. Heinrich graduated from the University of Missouri in 1995 with a Bachelor's degree in Science and Engineering, and later took graduate courses at the University of New Mexico. He served as Executive Director of the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, a New Mexico non-profit organization dedicated to educating young people on natural science and the environment, and founded his own public affairs consulting firm.
Heinrich served on the Albuquerque City Council from 2003 to 2007, which included one term as City Council President in 2006. As a city councilman, he stated that his goals were to reduce crime, raise the minimum wage and create new jobs. He also advocated the use of wind and solar power. In February 2006, he was appointed by Governor Bill Richardson to be the state's Natural Resources Trustee.
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America.
Letterman is also a television and film producer. His company Worldwide Pants produces his show as well as its network follow-up The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Worldwide Pants has also produced several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, currently in syndication.
In 1996, David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 1915 – February 1973), was a florist of British descent; his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering), a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.
Richard Henry Carmona (born November 22, 1949) is an American physician, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the Administration's ideological agenda.
In August 2006, Carmona returned home to Tucson, Arizona. In November 2011, he announced he would seek the Democratic Party's nomination for United States Senate in the hopes of succeeding outgoing Republican Senator Jon Kyl, despite being registered as a political Independent.
Carmona was born in New York City of Puerto Rican descent, and raised in Harlem. After dropping out of DeWitt Clinton High School at age 16, he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967. While enlisted, he received his General Educational Development (GED), joined the United States Army Special Forces, became a combat-decorated Vietnam veteran, and began his career in medicine as a Special Forces medic.
Jon Llewellyn Kyl (/ˈkaɪl/; born April 25, 1942) is the junior United States Senator from Arizona and the Senate Minority Whip, the second-highest position in the Republican Senate leadership. In 2010 he was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his persuasive role in the Senate.
The son of U.S. Representative John Henry Kyl, he was born and raised in Nebraska and lived for some time in Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of Arizona. He worked in Phoenix, Arizona as a lawyer and lobbyist before winning election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 1987 to 1995. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994 and has been re-elected by large margins since.
Kyl was ranked by National Journal in 2007 as the fourth-most conservative U.S. Senator. He has been a fixture of Republican policy leadership posts, chairing the Republican Policy Committee (2003–2007) and the Republican Conference (2007). In December 2007 he became Senate Minority Whip. In February 2011, Kyl announced that he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2012 and would retire at the end of his third term, which concludes on January 3, 2013. He expressly ruled out running for further office except, if offered, the Vice Presidency.
Lonesome girl, 23, but you'll never change
Looking for, a Lonesome boy to rearrange.
Lonely gir, doesn't waste, no time.
Little thought, for his heart.
Lovely, ageless, but with so little time.
Little more, than a clue deep inside her mind.
Sarah, can you take the time to heal me?
I'm 25, going on sixteen.
Sarah can you take the time to see me?
Grow into the shoes I'm afraid to walk in?
Lonesome boy, 25, and out of his mind.
Looking for, the answers to his troubled life.
Beautiful, ignorant, of all that she needs.
Trying to escape the bruises worn into his knees.
Sarah, can you take the time to heal me?
I'm 25, going on sixteen.
Sarah can you take the time to see me?
Grow into the shoes I'm afraid to walk in?
Sarah, can you take the time, before I finally lose my mind.
Return to me, do not fade.
To memory, black and white
Like a photograph, curled around the edges.
Are you coming back?
Could never be too soon.
Return to me, do not fade.
To memory, black and white
Let's make some new mistakes.
I'll wait patiently, to pass the time.
Give it one more try.
Cause I, keep, your heart, here in mine.
Return to me, do not fade.
To memory, black and white
Come back home to me.
Each morning as I rise,
How could you leave?
I'm stumbling through my life.
And I hang, this prayer, on my lips, and wear it in my eyes.
Don't Blame Me, for what you wouldn't do.
Don't Blame Me, for what you wouldn't do.
Put your heart, upon a shelf, or give it to someone else.
Just don't blame me. For what you wouldn't do.
There beneath the depature sign.
Got you there at half past nine.
What am I, supposed to do?
I held you close and said goodbye
I held you close and said goodbye.
And what am I, supposed to do?
Don't Blame Me, for what you wouldn't do.
Don't Blame Me, for what you wouldn't do.
Put your heart, upon a shelf, or give it to someone else.
Just don't blame me. For what you wouldn't do.
I felt numb as I drove away.
With half of me gone, half of me here to stay.
What am I supposed to do?
Took off my coat, threw down my keys,
And looked at the place that you had to leave.
What am I supposed to do?
Don't Blame Me, for what you wouldn't do.
Don't Blame Me, for what you wouldn't do.
Put your heart, upon a shelf, or give it to someone else.