Rep. Dave Williams, Facing Primary, Goes Hard "Anti-Vaxxer"

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by: Colorado Pols

Rep. Dave Williams (R), with Congressman Steve King (R-IA).

We wanted to take note of a primary challenge reportedly brewing in Colorado House District 15, the infamously nut-tolerant Colorado Springs safe GOP seat once held by Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt and currently in the possession of Rep. Dave Williams. Williams, who trades on a charming amalgam of Latino heritage and virulent anti-immigrant demagoguery, has always had a less than firm grip on this seat on account of being generally an unpleasant individual–and now, GOP challenger Missy Ward is taking on Williams in a red-on-RMGO proxy war:

It took less than three days after filing to run for State House Representative of HD 15 for the threats from RMGO and their puppets to begin.

An elected official called to tell me that RMGO, Joe Neville and Jon Hotaling are already working their bully tactics against me.

This is exactly what I expected from this group of radical, women hating, abusers.

They SHOULD be threatened by a smart, independent woman and domestic abuse survivor like myself that refuses to be their pawn.

Today, Williams’ supporters were found spreading this message to attendees at the conservative protest rally outside the state capitol:

To the overwhelming majority of Americans who support vaccination and think the law should be much tougher in terms of requiring school-age kids to get their shots, being labeled “pro-vaxx” would be rightly considered a compliment. But it’s crucial to remember that in a GOP primary in a safe GOP seat, the sensibility of the majority counts for basically nothing. Rep. Williams has clearly determined that becoming the face of “anti-vaxxer” politics in Colorado is his ticket to political survival.

And as bad as that may be for the Republican brand outside those super-safe districts, he could be right.

13 thoughts on “Rep. Dave Williams, Facing Primary, Goes Hard “Anti-Vaxxer””

MADCO says:

January 8, 2020 at 12:44 pm

Missy Ward?
Is there more than one?

Because I would not think the one I know about is electable, even in the 15th.

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1. RepealAndReplace says:
  
  January 8, 2020 at 1:25 pm
  
  Don't over estimate HD 15. Didn't that district also give us Doug Bruce?
  
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  1. unnamed says:
    
    January 8, 2020 at 1:46 pm
    
    Through a vacancy committee. In an actual primary election, he was promptly bounced out.
    
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    1. RepealAndReplace says:
      
      January 8, 2020 at 2:48 pm
      
      Ah, yes….the vacancy committee. Which is a more rarefied version of the screwballs who vote in Republican caucuses and primaries.
      
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Pseudonymous says:

January 8, 2020 at 12:47 pm

Just imagine the suffering that will be eliminated for women (and, yes, men!) if these results hold true across populations. Truly phenomenal.

People like Dave Williams would rather see them get sick and die. That's what anti-vaxxerism is. These folks, and their allies, like Jared Polis, shouldn't be able to "choose" these outcomes for others.

Cervical pre-cancer rates down 88% in decade since HPV vaccinations began – first findings

Among women born in 1995-96 – the first group to go through the regular vaccination programme in 2008/09 – there has been an 88% reduction in rates of cervical pre-cancer. This is a fall in incidence from 1.44% to 0.17%.

Not only that, women born in these years who had not received the vaccine were also less likely to develop cervical pre-cancer. This was because the high vaccine uptake meant that HPV incidence was much lower in their age group, thanks to a phenomenon known as “herd protection”. This is particularly good news, since this group is also less likely to attend cervical screenings.

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1. spaceman65 says:
  
  January 8, 2020 at 1:35 pm
  
  Pro-vaxx is pro-life, but Williams is a waste of space so that argument will be lost on him.
  
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  1. MADCO says:
    
    January 8, 2020 at 2:11 pm
    
    He's not really pro-life. THey way he describes it, he is pro-birth.
    
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    1. unnamed says:
      
      January 8, 2020 at 2:32 pm
      
      And then pro-death.
      
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      1. spaceman65 says:
        
        January 10, 2020 at 8:41 am
        
        Exactly, Mad and unnamed
        
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2. Genghis says:
  
  January 8, 2020 at 2:22 pm
  
  The HPV vaccine is the perfect flashpoint for anti-vax wingnuts, who are fond of yammering about how HPV and cervical cancer result from promiscuity and thereby imply (and some just outright say) that we shouldn't be protecting females from the consequences of being filthy little sluts.
  
  At the other end of the spectrum, the Boulder trust fund hippie variety of anti-vaxxers hate the HPV vaccine as well, but their opposition is based more on pretend medical expertise derived from dedicated study at Dunning-Kruger University.
  
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  1. Pseudonymous says:
    
    January 8, 2020 at 2:43 pm
    
    Both from bizarre notions of "purity." Whether relating to their naughty bits or fantastical notions about "toxins."
    
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    1. Genghis says:
      
      January 8, 2020 at 5:00 pm
      
      Yep, the hippie types pretty much all belong to the "natural = inherently 100% good" school. It's actually a little bit fun to watch them lose their shit when someone points out they're advocating a form of eugenics.
      
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DavidThi808 says:

January 8, 2020 at 3:37 pm

So a good chance to see if thoughtful & science based can win in a very conservative district. Interesting experiment.

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