Anti-Vaxxer PAC Registered in Colorado (Oh Boy!)

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by: Colorado Pols

Measles.

Here’s a newly-registered political committee to keep on the radar: the Colorado Coalition for Vaccine Choice Political Committee, created “to support or oppose Colorado state and local political candidates based on their views on protecting medical informed consent, vaccine exemptions provided in Colorado Revised Statutes 22-32-140, C.R.S. 25-4-903, and C.R.S. 25-4-902.”

In other words, the “anti-vaxxer PAC!” There’s no money or expenditures to report yet, but election season is still very young.

Our readers will recall that the last couple of years have seen a significant upsurge in “anti-vaxxer” political organizing among Colorado Republicans, in particular the 2015 “Parents Bill of Rights” sponsored by Sen. Tim Neville and backed by Sen. Laura Woods that created a very serious public relations problem for the Colorado Senate GOP majority.

In light of recent outbreaks of preventable diseases like mumps and measles, and polls showing overwhelming public support for vaccinations, “anti-vaxxerism” is a risky stand to take for any politician. It should be noted that even though anti-vaxxer sentiment doesn’t always break cleanly along partisan lines, the fight over the “Parents Bill of Rights” framed the debate in Colorado as red vs. blue.

Anyway, here’s a committee you’ll want to watch closely to know who the “anti-vaxxers” believe speak for them.

Remember to keep some hand sanitizer close by in case you meet up.

6 thoughts on “Anti-Vaxxer PAC Registered in Colorado (Oh Boy!)”

Pseudonymous says:

August 12, 2016 at 3:53 pm

Our readers will recall that the last couple of years have seen a significant upsurge in “anti-vaxxer” political organizing among Colorado Republicans, in particular the 2015 “Parents Bill of Rights” sponsored by Sen. Tim Neville and backed by Sen. Laura Woods that created a very serious public relations problem for the Colorado Senate GOP majority.

We need to be a bit cautious around this issue, as the lunatics are not limited to the party of (nothing) Lincoln (ever stood for). In fact, this one looks like an invention of someone from the left.

125 S Zephyr is a residence owned through the F CATHERINE SINCERE REVOCABLE TRUST.

Francis Sincere, a registered Democrat, is listed as living at that address, along with Catherine Sincere, also a Democrat.

Francis and Kathy Sincere both appear on several web sites, having testified before the state legislature about their "four adult, vaccine-injured" children (Francis appears first in the comments). They are both quoted in this Fox 31 news article, although "Fran" notes, perhaps unsurprisingly, that they couldn't prove out their claims of vaccine injury in court.

Just because the recent waves of legislation have come from the nuts on the right doesn't mean there aren't an equal number of nuts on the left ready to take up the fight.

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1. JeffcoBlue says:
  
  August 12, 2016 at 4:01 pm
  
  As they acknowledged in their next graf:
  
  It should be noted that even though anti-vaxxer sentiment doesn’t always break cleanly along partisan lines, the fight over the “Parents Bill of Rights” framed the debate in Colorado as red vs. blue.
  
  How many Dems can she find to donate to? How many Rs? It's the Rs sticking out their necks on vaccines, at least here in CO.
  
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2. Genghis says:
  
  August 12, 2016 at 5:29 pm
  
  That is exactly right. Vaccines, modern medical treatment, technology, etc. have raised standards of living and created a sort of ivory tower of health (in developed countries, at least) so impressive that many don't even realize they're living in an ivory tower. And, of course, a lofty perch atop an ivory tower generates complacency, which in turn fosters contempt for the forces that built the tower in the first place. Thus, we have worship of all things "natural," the quest for "wellness" – a mythical state that never has and never can exist – and the antivaxxers. Just feed yourself and your young 'un baleen whale placenta smoothies and everything will be A-OK. It's all quite hippie-like.
  
  It's easy to say that antivaxism is a Republican phenomenon because today's GOP is so rabidly anti-science, but anti-vaxism is part of a much larger woo culture that has appeal all across the political spectrum.
  
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  1. Voyageur says:
    
    August 12, 2016 at 7:33 pm
    
    Wise words, Genghis.
    
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3. LarrySarner says:
  
  August 14, 2016 at 10:48 am
  
  Yes, this is an "anti-vax" PAC. But this says it is focused on supporting the "medical-informed" exemptions to requirements for immunization against childhood diseases for school attendance. There is a tiny class of identifiable immunocompromised individuals who have a constitutional right to such an exemption, reinforced by the statute. There is an equally tiny group of parents (in Colorado it is literally zero) who have a *religious* objection to the entire practice of immunization who are unconstitutionally given an exemption by statute. Then there is a large group of parents who pretend they have a *philosophical* exemption against the entire practice of immunization, but who are really anti-vax.
  
  The last group are really dangerous people, but they are non-partisanly dangerous. Yes, there were the Repubs in the Legislature who backed that “Parental Rights” bill. But there is also the fact that the schools with the largest percentages of kids (some a majority!) given anti-vax “philosophical” exemptions are in deep blue (ultra-violet) Boulder.
  
  That’s what makes this PAC a scary one. It conflates the phony-baloney anti-vax exemption with the legitimate medical exemption. Irresponsibly, those with anti-vax exemptions are placing kids with genuine medical exemptions at extraordinary risk; the immunocompromised kids need the protection of having the other kids around them immunized (herd immunity).
  
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davebarnes says:

August 12, 2016 at 9:30 pm

I say: inject the parents with vaccines and then they will be non-functioning.

Problem solved.

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