GOP anti-vaxxer now chair of House science and tech subcomittee

[n2doc]

Freshman U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville, hosted his first town hall meeting last week in Cartersville. The last question he fielded was on the hot topic of vaccines.

Specifically, a woman in the crowd wanted to know if Loudermilk would hold a hearing on whether some crucial data was withheld from a 2004 Centers for Disease Control study that found no link between vaccines and autism.

Loudermilk answered, in part, out of personal experience:

“I believe it’s the parents’ decision whether to immunize or not. And so I’m looking at [my] wife – most of our children, we didn’t immunize. They’re healthy. Of course, home schooling, we didn’t have to get the mandatory immunization.”

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http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/02/24/barry-loudermilk-most-of-our-children-we-didnt-immunize-theyre-healthy/

[phantom power]

1. "we didn't immunize. they're healthy"

It takes some serious talent to pack so much ignorance of both disease ecology and statistics into two short sentences like that

[Romeo.lima333]

2. but i need a reason to vote. im not voting for someone just cause there's a D by his name.

democrat havent inspired me to vote. voting for the lesser of 2 evils is working for me anymore. i need something to vote for not against . well now you have this

[n2doc]

3. First you have to have somebody to vote for....

This is Rural Georgia....

Republican Barry Loudermilk will represent Georgia's 11th congressional district in Congress.

Loudermilk, a tea partier, ran unopposed in the midterm election. He will replace outgoing Congressman Phil Gingrey, who ran in the GOP primary in Georgia's Senate race but lost to David Perdue.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/barry-loudermilk-midterm-election-results_n_5839946.html

[Romeo.lima333]

5. republicans took the majority and that allows them to choose chairs and they didnt gain the

majority by this one rep, they gained it by a lot of people not voting because of the various reasons i posted

[sharp_stick]

4. I know it's not their fault

but I'd love to see the look on this shitheads face if his spawn came down with a nice case of Whooping Cough.

[jwirr]

6. And that is entirely possible. They hid their kids away by homeschooling them but they can't hide

forever.