As others have reported: Voters in Tooele, Utah
soundly rejected fluoridation once again on November 8
(How many times do they have to say no?); as did voters in
Xenia, and Springfield, Ohio.
Voting in Bellingham, WA is still considered too close to
determine after the promoters spent a reported $260,000 in
their campaign (How many toothbrushes would that buy?),
but is currently tilted to fluoridating.
In Mt Pleasant, I believe that the support for a win for
fluoridation on November 8 will be deemed voter fraud, or
ultimately stopped as a bait-and-switch, for asking voters
to say "Yes" to delivering a sodium fluoride that has
been approved by the FDA in order to get around a water
quality ordinance that was approved by voters last year,
when in fact the FDA has clarified for Congress that they
have never approved any fluorine-containing substance
intended to be ingested for the purpose of reducing tooth
decay.
Not yet reported: another community has
pro-actively enacted a protective water quality ordinance.
With a landslide voter approval of 72% on November 8, the
work of Debie Schnadt and others in Mammoth Lakes,
California resulted in the passage of the Safe Drinking
Water Initiative, a water quality criteria ordinance, that
prohibits the addition of any substance to the public
drinking water that is intended to treat people that has
not been specifically approved for safety and
effectiveness by the U.S. FDA for the full range of human
consumption for all adverse and cosmetic effects, as well
as restricting contaminants of the health treatment
additives to concentrations not to exceed California
Public Health Goals and U.S. Maximum Contaminant Level
Goals, the scientifically derived points of safety for
lifetime ingestion.
As the local newspaper is a weekly, we do not have an
immediate media report.