Greg Stanton

Mr. Speaker, Claims · 63 wordsI rise today to honor the life of Carl Kunasek, a devoted Arizonan who passed away this week at the age of 94.¹ Carl, an Air Force veteran, came to Arizona in 1959.² He opened a pharmacy in Mesa.³ When his families couldn’t afford medicine for a sick child, he let them sign the book, and he would have them pay him later. Positioning · 10 wordsTo the people who lived there, he was a hero.Positioning Reasoning · 8 wordsThat same spirit carried him into public service. Claims · 87 wordsHe served in the Arizona House, Arizona Senate, ⁴and on the Corporation Commission.⁵ He helped design AHCCCS, our State’s Medicaid program, finding a made-in- Arizona solution to make sure lower income families could get the care they needed.⁶ As Arizona Senate president, he presided over the difficult impeachment trial of a Governor of his own party.⁷ He did not want that duty, but he believed the Constitution left him no choice, and he did it with fairness. It cost him his seat, ⁸but he did it anyway. Positioning · 18 wordsCarl Kunasek did not see party first. He saw people. We would do well to remember his example.Positioning Thanks · 19 wordsMy thoughts are with his wife, Karen, and his children, both of whom followed him into public service actions.Thanks