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All the motivation you need for Tuesday: 'Health committee chairman Rand Paul' [1]
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Date: 2022-11-04
And here’s what he’s campaigning on this year: “If you help me win, I promise to subpoena every last document of Dr. Fauci’s unprecedented coverup.” What’s the coverup? The conspiracy theory is that Fauci funded research in the lab in Wuhan, China, that created the COVID-19 virus.
Paul has been harassing Dr. Anthony Fauci relentlessly throughout the entirety of the pandemic, public attacks that Fauci has said “kindle the crazies.”
“What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue is that all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there, and I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family and my children, with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me,” Fauci said at a Senate hearing earlier this year.
“So I asked myself, ‘Why would senator want to do this?’ So go to Rand Paul website and you see ‘Fire Dr. Fauci’ with a little box that says, ‘Contribute here.’ You can do $5, $10, $20, $100,” Fauci said. “So you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain.”
Paul is a danger to public health just by being one of 100 people who decide public policy. Having him in charge of the committee would be a disaster. The American Public Health Association, which gave Paul a 0% in its last legislative scorecard, says so in not so many words. “He has not been an exemplar of prevention or wellness,” said Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of APHA said, on the record. “That is a real problem when you’re a physician … you should know better.”
Other health organizations wouldn’t go on the record with the Washington Post “citing fears that criticizing Paul could backfire if he assumes the health committee’s leadership.” Great.
Paul is a crank. He’s flirted with anti-vaxxers. He’s a forced birther. He’s opposed to medical care for trans kids. And he could be heading up one of the most important policy-setting committees in Congress for health care. Oh, and education. Wheee.
If that’s not motivation enough to help keep the Senate in Democratic hands, I don’t know what is!
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