Connecticut lawmaker says her children were targets of online threats from anti-vaxxer

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Connecticut state Rep. Liz Linehan (D) said Wednesday that an online post threatened her children for her support of mandatory vaccinations for school children.

“Threatening our children will get you nothing, except a visit from the @CTCapitolPolice. I take this seriously, and so do they,” Linehan, who opposes religious exemptions for vaccinations, said in response to a since-deleted tweet. “This will not be tolerated and I will be filing a report tomorrow.” The user in question also appears to have deleted their Twitter account.

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The Connecticut Legislature’s Education Committee recently advanced a bill that would alert school nurses that they would not be fired or disciplined for refusing to approve religious exemptions in the Nutmeg State, which has confirmed three cases of measles so far in 2019, according to The Associated Press.

Religious exemptions for vaccinations have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent weeks, with presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) coming under fire after telling BuzzFeed News that he supported certain religious exemptions to mandatory vaccinations. Buttigieg’s campaign said Thursday he believes only medical exemptions should be allowed.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/441828-connecticut-lawmaker-says-her-children-were-targets-of-online-threats

[lagomorph777]

1. I think the anti-vax movement is sponsored by Putin. Other targets include Ukraine.

What better way to kill his enemies? It's biological warfare.

[Initech]

2. There was seriously an article about this a few months ago.

It said that Putin's Internet Research Agency may have been responsible for anti vaccination propaganda targeting users of Facebook and other social media outlets as early as 2009.

We should have been on to this nonsense then. Let me go find it.

[mopinko]

3. yup.