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Citizens Demanding Vaccination Choice Carry Republican Chris Christie to New Jersey Governorship
Contact: Louise Kuo Habakus, 917-553-4634, louise@lifehealthchoices.com
MIDDLETOWN, NJ, Nov. 3 /Christian
Newswire/ -- In an unprecedented and historic move, Chris Christie put pen
to paper last week and made an official campaign promise to citizens of New
Jersey in support of vaccination choice. He further cemented his position on
live radio with Don Imus, by becoming the first gubernatorial candidate to utter
the words vaccines, autism and parental choice in the same sentence. Vaccine
choice supporters showed up in record numbers tonight to cast their vote for
Christie.
"Tonight, vaccine choice advocates in New Jersey are proud to announce that
vaccination choice is officially a voting block," says Life Health Choices
Founder, Louise Kuo Habakus, who met with campaign leaders last December and
kept the lines of communication open. "This election is a wake-up call to
politicians nationwide. Vaccine choice belongs in the parents' house, not the
Statehouse or the White House."
After receipt of the official Christie campaign promise on Friday, vaccination
choice and autism advocates mobilized in force on the internet. They alerted
tens of thousands of supporters, who in turn took to Facebook, Twitter, and
their own support group networks to reach hundreds of thousands more. News of
Christie's now famous statement spread like wildfire through the state and
across the country:
"I stand by them now, and will stand with them as their governor in their fight
for greater parental involvement in vaccination decisions that affect their
children... Ending waste in government in order to improve care and services for
these unique children and adults, as well as giving parents the choice they
deserve in their children's health care decisions, will be top priorities."
Anger towards Governor Corzine has been building. It is well known that New
Jersey, Autism Capital of the world, is also Ground Zero for mandated shots for
school. Many parents and grandparents blame environmental causes, including the
state's ultra-aggressive vaccine schedule. The "Freedom of Choice" rally in
Trenton last fall garnered national media attention and catapulted this issue
into the mainstream dialogue. On the heels of Corzine's 2008 decision to add
four additional vaccine mandates to the state's already crowded schedule,
thousands of parents have lined up to attend vaccination choice seminars and
protests across the state.
In August, Christie and running mate, Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guagdano, met
with parents and received an unvarnished assessment of New Jersey's position on
this issue from Habakus: "Fifty percent of Americans in 18 U.S. states including
the highly populous, corridor states of California and Texas have vaccination
choice. We deserve it here, in the state that leads the nation in autism
incidence and the number of mandated shots for school attendance."
"We look forward to Governor-elect Christie's leadership and working with the
new administration," says Habakus.
For more information, go to www.lifehealthchoices.com.