NJ: Get Out The Vote: Christie Supports Vaccination Choice

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Forwarding this to the OT list because it is political, although related

to vaccination. No comments from me - no relevance to me at

all.

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-- Get Out The Vote: Christie Supports Vaccination

Choice

October 31, 2009

From Louise Kuo Habakus

A PERSONAL APPEAL TO VOTE FOR CHRIS CHRISTIEI'm making a

personal appeal to our community. Please join me in voting Christie

for Governor on Tuesday, November 3rd.

Whether you live in New Jersey or not, this e-mail is for you.

I'm asking you to forward this to everyone you know. This is a bona fide

" get out the vote " from someone who has lived here for nearly

two decades and seen firsthand how Trenton is failing the people of New

Jersey.

It's time to stop wringing our hands about how bad things have gotten. In

a democracy, we get the government (and the governor) we deserve. The

election is close. If you know me, then you will know that my standards

are high, my commitment to progress is deep, and I do not make this

appeal lightly.

Here's why you must vote. For Christie.

WHY WE MUST VOTE CHRIS CHRISTIE FOR GOVERNOR ON TUESDAY

Christie supports vaccination choice. He wrote the following

letter of support on Campaign letterhead, to the vaccination choice

and special needs communities. He states: Many of these families have

expressed their concern over New Jersey's highest-in-the-nation vaccine

mandates. I stand with them now, and will stand with them as their

governor, in the fight for greater parental involvement in vaccination

decisions that affect their children.

Christie has reached out. I met with in August. He is

the only candidate who approached us, offered his time, and said he

wanted to learn more. His lead policy guy visited me on two separate

occasions to open the dialogue, late last year, at the moment Christie

had made the decision to run.

Christie has gone on the record. He stated his support for

vaccination choice early on, during the primary debate. He went on

Imus in the Morning this past Thursday and said: " We need to

look at all the different things affecting autism in New Jersey because

we have the highest rate in the country. Not just the environmental

concerns but vaccinations. Parents of children with autism need to be

heard, they need a seat at the table to be talking about these issues. I

met with a number of these parents, I've spoken to them about the awful

time they've had. They need to have somebody who is going to them. And

I'm going to listen to their concerns and try to make things better. But

clean up the environment is one of the ways. Be more environmentaly

sensitive in terms of the other toxins that we put into our environment.

And also dealing with the vaccination issue is important... "

Christie understands parents' concerns. He is a young parent

himself. He sees that parents are desperately worried about very real

world problems, such as autism and chronic disease. He sees that parents

are being forced to vaccinate when they believe in their hearts that the

shots are harming their children. He sees that the epidemic of sick and

injured children in New Jersey is the pressing public health

crisis of the day. And unlike the other candidates, he has shown us that

he's willing to talk about it.

To say this is a breath of fresh air is a massive

understatement.

CORZINE HAS BEEN BAD FOR NEW JERSEYSpeaking plainly,

Corzine does not deserve to be re-elected. Here are the reasons I cannot

vote for Corzine:

He Isn't Listening To His Constituents: Vaccination

Choice

Last year, he added four new vaccine mandates to the most crowded

schedule of any state in the country. And he did it completely

outside the legislative process. Corzine pushed the mandates through

the

Public Health Council, a rubber-stamping formality. That's how NJ

became the first state in the country, and the first jurisdiction in the

world, to mandate the seasonal flu shot in 2008.

Despite the

Trenton

" Freedom of Choice " rally that drew national press and

widespread attention... despite the many thousands of requests from

parents begging for vaccination choice... Corzine has categorically

refused to support passage of the Conscientious Exemption to Mandatory

Immunization bill, A260/S1071.

Corzine admitted to us that he gets more calls and letters on this issue

than any other except tolls.

And perhaps most egregious of all, he promised to support both

vaccination choice and removal of the mercury-based vaccine preservative,

thimerosal, from our vaccines when he was running for governor. And he

never followed through. There's a less kind way to say the same thing.

Corzine Has Abandoned The Special Needs CommunityThese

are strong words chosen carefully to deliver a strong message.

Zero leadership. New Jersey is Ground Zero when it comes to

the autism epidemic in the United States. There has been no official

statement of concern, no think tank sessions, no roundtables, no

convening of leading scientists, doctors and toxicologists. We're not

even sure he's concerned.

Corzine has refused to err on the side of caution. His failure

to send a strong message of concern about the rising incidence of autism

has been a profound disappointment. But he has taken his neglect one

terrible step further. He could have just held firm. Completely ignoring

the existing and emerging science that links vaccines and their

ingredients to the symptoms and hallmarks of autism and chronic illness,

Corzine chose instead to add even more vaccines to the schedule,

including shots that no other state in the country has dared to mandate.

We mandate 36% more shots than the next highest state. Why? Why

indeed.

Waste and abject failure under his watch. A

devastating audit of the

Division of Developmental Disabilities revealed a shocking degree of

waste and callous indifference to the plight of New Jersey's affected

families.

It is a form of insanity to re-elect him and expect progress.

Corzine has demonstrated little interest in developing innovative answers

to the problems facing NJ's parents, both those with and without special

needs. I have no reason to believe this would change, if he is elected

for another term. We expected the former Wall Street CEO to clean up

Trenton. We expected him to do a lot more than deploy his millions in

support of his own re-election. Imagine if he had taken $120 million of

his own money, the money that he spent on his three campaigns, and

instead created real solutions, that real money can buy, to the real

problems facing New Jersey?

Corzine does not deserve to be re-elected.

A NATIONAL MESSAGE: WHAT HAPPENS IN NEW JERSEY MATTERS TO

YOUNew Jersey is Ground Zero when it comes to the issue of

vaccine mandates. No state in the country, no place in the world,

mandates more shots for daycare and school than the Garden State.

Help us now. It's time for the country to get on with the task at hand:

Finding solutions for the real public health catastrophe in our

country: an epidemic of neurological, autoimmune and chronic illness

facing our children, including asthma, diabetes, ADHD, allergies, peanut

anaphylaxis, seizures, palsies, arthritis, OCD, autism and learning

disabilities. One in six American children is learning disabled. Setting Big Government straight, that fake pandemics, massive and

expensive vaccine campaigns, and the systematic erosion of personal,

health care freedom and parental rights has got to stop now.

New Jersey is the most reliable bellwether for the clout and influence of

Big Pharma in our country. If we succeed in taking on the pharmaceutical

industry here, there is hope for the rest of the nation.

BE VIGILANT AND PARTICIPATE IN THE POLITICAL PROCESSThese

are historic times. The swine flu pandemic has reshaped the vaccination

choice debate. If government can:

change the definition of an epidemic to mean something non-virulent, mobilize billions of dollars to fight something that's not remotely

deadly, and mandate unproven, insufficently tested vaccines...

We must question whether our government has earned the right to withhold

choice, whether they have earned the right to tell us what we must put

into our bodies. In my opinion, we have but two viable paths to pursue.

The first is legal action. The second is our power at the voting

booth.

Vaccines are meant to prevent disease. They must be as safe as possible.

If they are not safe, they should not be mandated. If they are safe,

people will take them.

So give us choice. And give New Jersey a new governor that will

prioritize this issue for us all. We can ill afford more of the same.

Vote on Tuesday, Christie for Governor.

Louise Kuo Habakusp.s. We'll have some news to share in

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