Merck's Political Donations Purchase California Gardasil Bill Votes
MB Comment: California legislators are cheap dates. Apparently all it takes is a few grand to purchase their votes – a pittance for a corporate giant like Merck.
In case you haven't been following this issue, the California legislature recently passed bill AB499, which allows 12 year old girls to be vaccinated with Gardasil (Merck's HPV vaccine) in schools without their parents' knowledge or consent.
CalWatchdog (an investigative journalism outfit in Sacramento) connected the dots between Merck's individual campaign donations to California Senate and Assembly members (in the $1,000 – $3,500 range) and votes on AB499 (see list of contributions and votes below). Ask yourself: What exactly was a giant pharmaceutical company expecting in return for those multiple thousand dollar contributions to obscure legislators?
Merck's marketing campaign for Gardasil follows the Energizer Bunny model: Keep going despite a growing number of unexplained deaths from Gardasil, despite a recent finding of HPV DNA contamination in the vaccine (denied on the package insert), despite a consumer backlash movement against Gardasil and despite a forthcoming documentary based on interviews with Gardasil adverse reaction victims. Merck has even flexed its corporate muscles and ridiculously expanded the market for this cervical HPV vaccine to boys.
Parents in California with kids in public school should take a close look at this Gardasil issue, before their daughters come home from school after Gardasil vaccination with neurological damage and become 'One More Girl.'
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