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In reply to the discussion: Does fetal tissue in vaccines cause autism? [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)California from MTBE (a gas additive). Their activism on the issue led to the Democratic governor appointing a Blue Ribbon Panel to study MTBE, and those scientists found that the risk to benefit was zero. Lots of risk, and no benefit.
So the governor proceeded to see that the substance was banned.
Governor Davis was recalled after this happened. Big oil put up the Big Money to recall him. And Ahnold Schwartzennegger, backed by that same money source, got the governor's mansion for over eight years.
If you think about it,k this means that the RW is divided on issues.
And there is nothing that says because someone's stance on social issues is flawed, that their ideas on other matters are not to be considered. For instance, the junior Senator from Illinois was against gay marriage when he ran for the Presidency in 2008. Also he remained in that mode for some years after his election, but that social conservatism of his did not cause me to vote for a more socially liberal, third party candidate back in 2008. Maybe that made you vote for someone else, but not me.