That did not come up at the meeting. Right now they have the wrong meeting video on the link for yesterday's meeting.
https://supervisors.sonoma-county.org/meeting_archive.aspx?sid=1001&id=1002
I just called them, someone else let them know before, so they are working on fixing it. She said it would be up by tomorrow.
The Board did ask the task force to spend the next year looking at the feasibility of putting fluoride in our water. So
please, contact all the Supervisors and urge them to stop wasting time an money on this toxic substance; and focus on affordable access to Dentists, and education for safe methods of dental care. Only a flood of voters contacting them will make a dent in their closed minds.
In 1996, the CA legislature made a law mandating cities of 10,000 or more to put fluoride in their water if they had the funds for it. Do you think any city in this state has extra money? So why has this beast risen. The ADA lobbyist have been very active in DC; for the wrong reasons.
The only good thing that happened during Rabbitt's and McGuire's chastising, was that Rabbitt agreed with my statement of finding cost effective ways of dealing with the problems of dental care here (54% of us do not have access to dental care). What I had said was, to take the cost of fluoridation, and put it into more low or no cost dental clinics.
But of course the Press Democrat's reporter Brett Wilkinson did not include that in his article today.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...ff-the-charts- Keep the letters to the Editor coming as well; they printed a bunch from both sides.
I think that it's only because I have shown Rabbitt respect; that even in his anger, he aligned with the sensibility of my public comment. McGuire agreed he and I need another meeting to work through this.
Zane, on the other hand, has let her new power of Chair go to her head in ways many folks are noticing. Every week she abuses her position to another degree. This issue, and a few more, have caused me to work to recruit a challenger for her. I found 3 sets of special interests ready to do that in just one day! That was in addition to sitting through nearly the entire BOS and SR CC meetings; 10 hours total.
Some of us went later to the Santa Rosa City Council meeting where they were addressing the issue of raising the water/sewer rates - again. You see, like most cities, SR has been addicted to growth. They make the current ratepayers pay the cost of expansion for future ratepayers, but when the economy tanked, the growth they banked on did not happen. Also, the public got much better at conservation; then got rewarded with several rate increases, because of the loss of incoming funds to manage the system. Does that make sense?
At that meeting I spoke with the GM of the North Marin Water District, one of the SC Water Agency contractors. I mentioned to him my overdue interest in having the Marin Breast Cancer Study look into fluoride as a factor in their study.
In case you were not aware, they have a higher incident of breast cancer there. I thrive on looking for reasons to explain things like this, and wish I had time for another career in research, coming up with lifestyle choices for the questionnaires such as: how many mammograms they have over the average, are under-wire bras a factor, etc. Southern Marin uses fluoride, Northern does not. So analyzing the cancer rate increase by address could inform us if fluoride poses this kind of risk.
With the slide of the Public Utilities funding deficit still overhead, I asked him how in the world anyone could justify paying to put an additional toxin in the water. He said that the mandate requires the funding come from some other source than ratepayers. So I asked where would that money come from; as the rest of Santa Rosa's budget, as is all the other contractors', is lacking to the point of basic services being cut to the bone. He said it came from the Dentists, and then quickly left, before I finished my sentence about looking at the link for breast cancer.
Dentist paying to put something in our water? I think what he meant was their Lobbying arm, the American Dental Association, is busy in Washington, (I got a note from Bernie Sanders, dental care was at the top of the list); so I'm guessing they're looking for Federal grant money for this.
This is exactly why I am running for Senate. They have too many misplaced, and dangerous priorities. The 1% have been sponsoring the election of the 1% to run the Senate for far too long. I'm here to occupy
the People's seat for the 99%
:waccosun: Please help me make a stand, so these issues can get some attention. If 99% of this state's progressive folks from all parties, and no party helped me, even in small ways; we could make some big noise about what matters most. Winning the seat is not the main goal; getting attention on the essential issues is.
Are you in? Let's go!
Much thanks,
Colleen Fernald
www.campaignforpeace.org
