-Caveat Lector- Yesterday, after thinking about the AMA-JAMA survey sex firing impartial publication issue, I went looking for involvement in politics by the AMA. All I came up with is the site shown below for political affiliation. If the firing of that fellow was done to avoid 'politicking' or 'politicising' the journal, it was done fairly quickly -- almost surgically. The site lists no direct political affiliation that I can find. BUT: there is politics (and $$$?). I did find one for Texas where all of the endorsement for 'medically friendly' candidates was listed. (In trying to re-locate that site, I found one more.) So, I was unsuccessful on one count and found two other things instead. The first's URL is: http://www.texpac.org/endorsements.htm <<begin quote>> 1998 TEXPAC General Election Endorsements <Picture: checkmark> (updated October 30, 1998) The Texas Find Your Incumbent (FYI) system provides information about elected officials and the districts they represent. Information includes districts of the Texas Senate, Texas House of Representatives, Congress (Texas delegation, U.S. House of Representatives), and Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). Based on local physician and Alliance recommendations, the TEXPAC Board of Directors has endorsed the following candidates in their respective races: <<end quote>> The second's is: http://www.texmed.org/ <<begin quote>> Legislative Highlights for January 18th: Legislature to canvass election results; Bush, Perry to be sworn in; Legislative negotiations already underway; Health department draws criticism over ephedrine rules; Tax code rewrite unlikely, lawmaker says; TMA to present managed care concerns to U.S. Senate committee. 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