{"id":12115,"date":"2023-03-28T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2023-04-02T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:09:38","slug":"action-alert-tyrannysquad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/action-alert-tyrannysquad\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTION ALERT: #TYRANNYSQUAD MEMBER WANTS TO PROMOTE &#038; CELEBRATE VACCINES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: The vote took place in the late morning of March 29, 2023. We were able to get the results via a Record Vote in the House.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rep. Ann Johnson&#8217;s resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/tlodocs\/88R\/billtext\/pdf\/HR00835I.pdf#navpanes=0\">HR 835<\/a> would celebrate Big Pharma and promote jabs by having the state mark March 29, 2023 as \u201cVaccine Advocacy and Awareness Day\u201d to honor the Baker Institute at Rice University. Their Center for Health and Biosciences boasts \u201cFellows and Scholars\u201d like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news-politics\/scientist-stop-measles-texas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Peter Hotez<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who has publicly labeled TFVC as \u201canti-vaxx\u201d, branding its supporters as \u201cpeople actually eager to endanger lives of Texas children just to espouse their miserable pseudoscience ideologies\u201d. The resolution specifically applauds the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerinstitute.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-03\/FAQ-VaccineEquity.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVaccines Cause Adults\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program -sponsored by the Baker Institute in partnership with taxpayer-funded lobbying group The Immunization Partnership &#8211; a marketing campaign that promotes a mandatory state vaccine database and recruits pastors to combat vaccine hesitancy and misinformation by delivering \u201cmessages about vaccine safety\u201d from the pulpit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serious question &#8211; are any Texans <\/span><b><i>not aware of vaccines<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? Should the state be using its energy to market pharmaceutical products, promote a lobbying group that uses its funds to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/immunizeusa.org\/stop-the-anti-vax-madness-in-the-texas-senate\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">insult<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> duly elected officials, celebrate organizations that seek to violate your medical privacy, and a \u201chealth expert\u201d who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eviemagazine.com\/post\/vaccine-scientist-admits-on-joe-rogan-experience-that-hes-a-junkfoodaholic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">admits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to being a \u201cjunkfoodaholic\u201d? Does Rep. Johnson believe this resolution is really a great use of elected officials\u2019 time, while TFVC-supported bills like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/tlodocs\/88R\/billtext\/pdf\/HB00609I.pdf#navpanes=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HB 609<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are slow-crawling through the legislative process?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TAKE ACTION NOW BY TELLING YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE TO VOTE \u201cNO\u201d ON HR 835 ON MARCH 29TH!<\/span><\/p><h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><i>Email and Call YOUR State Representative<br \/><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use our public <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1-Ie_EuIM1g1wlxcU5B8-R6Bn0_riSWdBq2UvfF_zYYY\/edit?usp=sharing\"><strong>House Directory<\/strong><\/a> to find contact info for your State Representative.\u00a0<br \/><\/span><strong><br \/>SAMPLE EMAIL MESSAGE:<\/strong><\/h6><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Representative,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am writing to you today to ask you to please VOTE NO on HR 835 on Wednesday, March 29, or ask Rep. Ann Johnson to pull her resolution.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Resolution would use the power of the state to market pharmaceutical products and honor health \u201cexperts\u201d who want to violate medical privacy and restrict medical liberty.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[YOUR NAME]<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Not sure <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who your State Representative is? Click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wrm.capitol.texas.gov\/home\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and look for:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRepresentative [Name]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texas House District [Number]\u201d<br \/>Then use the linked directory to call and email.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<\/h6>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The vote took place in the late morning of March 29, 2023. We were able to get the results via a Record Vote in the House.\u00a0 Rep. Ann Johnson&#8217;s resolution HR 835 would celebrate Big Pharma and promote jabs by having the state mark March 29, 2023 as \u201cVaccine Advocacy and Awareness Day\u201d to 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We were able to get the results via a Record Vote in the House.\u00a0 Rep. Ann Johnson&#8217;s resolution HR 835 would celebrate Big Pharma and promote jabs by having the state mark March 29, 2023 as \u201cVaccine Advocacy and Awareness Day\u201d to&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}