I think there are plenty of Democrats out there. One of the things
about autism is that it is an equal opportunity disaster, And our
issues do not fit nicely into the Republican/Democrat or left/right
models that dominate in the media and powerful institutions.

The inability of the existing institutions to recognize the epidemic
and respond in any type of meaningful way shows how irrelevant these
old ways of looking at politics and the world are to our
communities' problems. I am working as hard as I can to get a
thimerosal ban passed in New York State (and it anyone would like to
get invovled please contact me, we can use all the help we can). I
find that party identification has almost nothing to do with whether
an elected official will help us or not. Initially, before I
contacted a legislator I would determine what party they belong to.
Now I don't because it doesn't seem to matter. It is clear though
that we do a lot better with female legislators, especially moms who
held their kids on their laps when they got vaccines.

In politics somebody famous once said there are no permanent friends
just permanent interests, and we have permanent interests. Whether
we have permanent friends we will learn in time. And I think we will
be very well served by avoiding alliances with any party, but we
should be open to working with all parties Republicans, Democrats,
Greens, Libertarians, whoever will do the right things. And the
elected officials who will work with us on some issues, like
thimerosal, may not work with us on other issues like ending health
insurance discrimination against people with autism.

And as we go forward we need to keep focussed on autism-issues,
that's how we as a community can become a powerful political force,
there are many other important issues, the war in Iraq, choice, etc.
BUt we should not let our differing opinions on these issue divert
us from the primary issues facing us, thimerosal, no health
insurance, inadequate education and paltry research dollars being
diverted in deadends like genetic research.

--- In EOHarm@yahoogroups.com, karen beauvais <jesusnowworld@y...>
wrote:
> I hate to admit it but the more citations I read from Teresa
Binstock the greener I get.
> While adamantly ProLife and conservative (don't stone me) I see
environmental stewardship with our food supply and air as pure
wisdom. While we want a thriving economy, jobs and so on, it is
certainly isn't advantageous to slowly poison people off and damage
our kids with environmental assaults in the process. AKA Hg in the
air and rocket milk.
> Talk about a burden to the future healthcare system.
> We've gotten so polarized in this country we can't even see any
good the other side has to offer.
> Karen
>
>
> Erik Nanstiel <erik@a...> wrote:
> The green party is an unproven entity, isn't it? And the perfect
way to
> lose your voice because they've never had a strong showing. Not
that I
> don't like Nader's ideas... per se.
>
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:33 PM, max.walker_verizon_mail wrote:
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> >
> > its the only way to go. GREEN
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Avril" <lorned@n...>
> > To: <EOHarm@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [EOHarm] Re: Any Democrats out there?
> >
> >
> >>
> >> At 08:21 PM 4/26/2005, you wrote:
> >>> Can you imagine?? Bill Frist vs. Hilary Clinton...maybe we'll
all
> >>> have to
> >>> vote for Ralph Nader! ; )
> >>
> >>
> >> LOL, that's who I have been voting for. For my money, with
both the
> >> Dems
> >> and the Reps in the pockets of not just the vaccine and drug
> >> industry, but
> >> all the other corporations responsible for polluting our
planet and
> >> our
> >> bodies, what else can a person do?
> >>
> >> Avril Dannenbaum, tree hugger and mom to a child recovering
from both
> >> lead
> >> and mercury poisoning
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Yahoo! Groups Links
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