Council Votes Against Vaccine Choice

PRESS RELEASE SENT:

AUGUSTA Appearing before the Legislative Council today amongst 29 pages of bills, was An Act To Prohibit Mandatory Vaccinations; a bill that Representative Doug Thomas, District 24 had submitted. This Council is made up of 10 legislators out of the 186 that represent us. 6 Council Members decided the fate of your right to decline vaccinations.

The 6 who voted against your rights were Representative Hannah Pingree, Senator Elizabeth Mitchell, Senator Phillip Bartlett, Senator Lisa Marrache, Representative John Piotti and Representative Seth Berry.

These 6 will have another opportunity to reconsider their vote as Representative Doug Thomas appeals their decision on November 5th. During this time they need to be pressed to answer why it would ever be ok to put anything into someone else's body against their wishes. Mandatory vaccinations is nothing short of assault. While NY, NJ, Mass, Georgia are having their rights stripped away, as assault becomes legalized, as experimental medicine is mandated, Maine has an opportunity now to act preemptively, pro-actively to affirm our right to vaccine choice.

What began as a campaign launched by local individual concerned citizens has now evolved to encompass citizens across the state as well as the Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice. The campaign to support the bill To Prohibit Mandatory Vaccinations continues.

To Support Vaccine Choice, please contact:

Cynthia Rosen 845-3048, cynthia.rosen@republicanproject.org

Representative Doug Thomas 277-3017, firewood@tds.net

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NOTES:
Rep. Hannah Pingree is the only 1 of the 6 Council Members who voted down the bill who is termed out. She could run for Maine Senate but no more for the House. The other 5 can still run for their prospective seats in 2010.

It just happens that the only members of the council that voted against the bill were democrats.
AND All the Democrats on the Council voted against this bill.

THIS SHOULD NOT BE A PARTISAN ISSUE.

They need to be pressed to explain themselves.
Pressed to explain why you and I should not have a choice to decline vaccinations.
Why they voted against a bill that would protect our right to choose. They voted against protecting our right to be free from assault from the government itself. By declaring an extreme emergency this statute is enacted which allows for mandated prescribed care. Because the actual prescribed care is not described it is wide open to include mandatory vaccinations. I am not wearing a tin hat either. Read the statute yourself. Here is Channel 5's brief report.

A lady from Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice said Lisa Marrache spoke with a Channel 5 reporter who attended the hearing and said that she thought they needed to leave it in place "just in case". Leave what in place? And just in case of what? If anyone sees channel 5 reporting on this, please let me know.

And if your not plugged in yet, do so.

Here they are with the Towns within their districts:

Representative Hannah Pingree: Brooklin, Deer Isle, Frenchboro, Isle au Haut, Mount Desert (part), North Haven, Stonington, Swan's Island, Tremont and Vinalhaven

Senator Elizabeth (Libby) Mitchelle: termed out in 2012
Towns: Oakland, Sidney, Vassalboro, China, Augusta

Senator Phillip Bartlett: termed out 2012
Towns: Gorham, Westbrook and 2/3 of Scarborough

Senator Lisa Marrache: termed out 2014
Towns: Pittsfield, Detroit, Clinton, Benton, Waterville, Winslow, Albion and the Unity Township

Representative John Piotti: termed out 2014
Towns: Burham, Freedom, Knox, Montville, Palermo, Thorndike, Troy and Unity

Representative Seth Berry: termed out 2016
Towns: Bowdoin, Bowdoinham and Richmond, the unorganized territory of Perkins Township

If you knwo anyone in the areas above, please, forward this to them. I need all the info I can get on reaching their actual constituents. This is step 1.

Letters to the editors right now and relentlessly over the next 2 weeks needs to begin. Their is a media block below. Just copy and paste into the 'bcc'. I was told that with all the attention that Thomas' Bill brought in, that if the Council voted it down I would need to get 1000 people to show up at the appeal. Let's plan ahead, shall we? November 5th. 2 weeks. We had 4 weeks to get this far. Channel 5 had Rep. Thomas on at 6 pm Oct 14th. Someone who heard sent a message that said Thomas commented that in all the 3 years he had been in office he has never seen such response. What can we do in 2 more weeks? Let's check it out.

-Cynthia

845-3048

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