Comments on: Griffis Affair Gets Nasty http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/02/22/griffis-affair-gets-nasty/ D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:15:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Poopy http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/02/22/griffis-affair-gets-nasty/comment-page-1/#comment-1643 Poopy Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:45:18 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/02/22/griffis-affair-gets-nasty/#comment-1643 So let me get this straight: Cheh is on Merck's take because she took a donation from a pharmaceutical group which also includes as members Merck's competitors? And Catania is also on Merck's take because.....? And having women be protected from HPV and potential cervical cancer is bad because.....? So let me get this straight: Cheh is on Merck's take because she took a donation from a pharmaceutical group which also includes as members Merck's competitors?

And Catania is also on Merck's take because.....?

And having women be protected from HPV and potential cervical cancer is bad because.....?

]]> By: Jonathan R. Rees http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/02/22/griffis-affair-gets-nasty/comment-page-1/#comment-1631 Jonathan R. Rees Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:59:10 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/02/22/griffis-affair-gets-nasty/#comment-1631 This is not only the worst city council to date paraphrasing Gary Imhoff, but maybe one of the most corrupt who have allowed an industry to dictate who our leaders will be, what the agenda will be and sadly, the voters went along with it not seeing that they were cutting their own throats in the process. If you study all the bills that City Council 17 has proposed, they do not benefit District residents economically but they definitely make way for friends of the city council members to get all the more rich. In other words, many of these bills are pay back for those political contributions. A case in point which has now blown up in Council Member Mary Cheh’s face has been over her introducing a bill that would require all teenage girls to be inoculated with Gardasil to attack the HPV virus that is allegedly linked to cervical cancer. What Cheh did for a lousy $500 contribution from Merck was to feed all of us Merck’s propaganda. In other words, Mary Cheh put personal profit before the health of the people of DC not knowing anything about the disease, the drug and the fact that it is not as effective as Merck first had all of us believe. Gardasil wears off in less than five years and is ineffective if a woman already has the HPV virus in her system which a large number of never sexually active teenage girls have. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100221.html?sub=AR Again, this is not the worst city council to date but a very dangerous one that is willing to risk our health, make it harder for people to pay their mortgage/rent and bend over backwards in totally disrespect for those who voted for them foolishly. This is not only the worst city council to date paraphrasing Gary Imhoff, but maybe one of the most corrupt who have allowed an industry to dictate who our leaders will be, what the agenda will be and sadly, the voters went along with it not seeing that they were cutting their own throats in the process.

If you study all the bills that City Council 17 has proposed, they do not benefit District residents economically but they definitely make way for friends of the city council members to get all the more rich. In other words, many of these bills are pay back for those political contributions.

A case in point which has now blown up in Council Member Mary Cheh’s face has been over her introducing a bill that would require all teenage girls to be inoculated with Gardasil to attack the HPV virus that is allegedly linked to cervical cancer. What Cheh did for a lousy $500 contribution from Merck was to feed all of us Merck’s propaganda. In other words, Mary Cheh put personal profit before the health of the people of DC not knowing anything about the disease, the drug and the fact that it is not as effective as Merck first had all of us believe. Gardasil wears off in less than five years and is ineffective if a woman already has the HPV virus in her system which a large number of never sexually active teenage girls have. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100221.html?sub=AR

Again, this is not the worst city council to date but a very dangerous one that is willing to risk our health, make it harder for people to pay their mortgage/rent and bend over backwards in totally disrespect for those who voted for them foolishly.

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