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Lance for Cancer Czar? Nah. Governor? Maybe.
Lance Armstrong is happy to be a crusader for cancer research and prevention, but he’s not interested in becoming a federally appointed “cancer czar,” should that job ever be created.
“I’d rather be the main cheerleader and really the guy who really talks about this disease and keeps it out there,” Armstrong tells Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith on Thursday night’s sixth-season opener of “Texas Monthly Talks.” “There are a lot of people who are a heck of a lot smarter than me.”
The seven-time Tour de France champ, long-time Austinite and cancer survivor is touting Proposition 15, a $3 billion cancer research and prevention initiative that will be on the Texas ballot in November. On the program, he also addresses speculation that all this political action on behalf of cancer just might position him for a run for office someday.
“I think that I’m more effective out of office right now, as an a-political person representing an issue that does not know a side, does not know a party,” Armstrong tells Evans on “Texas Monthly Talks,” Thursday night at 7 on KLRU.
So, absolutely no political campaigns in the future?
“Of course at the end of that answer every time is never say never,” Armstrong said. “I would never rule it out.”
Armstrong does absolutely-positively rule out a cycling comeback, however.
“My kids are here in Austin, and it’s a European sport,” he said. “If I were to have gone for an eighth tour I would have been the most selfish father on the planet.”
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