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January 08, 2020 12:18 PM UTC

Rep. Dave Williams, Facing Primary, Goes Hard "Anti-Vaxxer"

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Rep. Dave Williams (R), with Congressman Steve King (R-IA).

We wanted to take note of a primary challenge reportedly brewing in Colorado House District 15, the infamously nut-tolerant Colorado Springs safe GOP seat once held by Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt and currently in the possession of Rep. Dave Williams. Williams, who trades on a charming amalgam of Latino heritage and virulent anti-immigrant demagoguery, has always had a less than firm grip on this seat on account of being generally an unpleasant individual–and now, GOP challenger Missy Ward is taking on Williams in a red-on-RMGO proxy war:

It took less than three days after filing to run for State House Representative of HD 15 for the threats from RMGO and their puppets to begin.

An elected official called to tell me that RMGO, Joe Neville and Jon Hotaling are already working their bully tactics against me.

This is exactly what I expected from this group of radical, women hating, abusers.

They SHOULD be threatened by a smart, independent woman and domestic abuse survivor like myself that refuses to be their pawn.

Today, Williams’ supporters were found spreading this message to attendees at the conservative protest rally outside the state capitol:

To the overwhelming majority of Americans who support vaccination and think the law should be much tougher in terms of requiring school-age kids to get their shots, being labeled “pro-vaxx” would be rightly considered a compliment. But it’s crucial to remember that in a GOP primary in a safe GOP seat, the sensibility of the majority counts for basically nothing. Rep. Williams has clearly determined that becoming the face of “anti-vaxxer” politics in Colorado is his ticket to political survival.

And as bad as that may be for the Republican brand outside those super-safe districts, he could be right.

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13 thoughts on “Rep. Dave Williams, Facing Primary, Goes Hard “Anti-Vaxxer””

  2. Just imagine the suffering that will be eliminated for women (and, yes, men!) if these results hold true across populations.  Truly phenomenal.

    People like Dave Williams would rather see them get sick and die.  That's what anti-vaxxerism is.  These folks, and their allies, like Jared Polis, shouldn't be able to "choose" these outcomes for others.

    Cervical pre-cancer rates down 88% in decade since HPV vaccinations began – first findings

    Among women born in 1995-96 – the first group to go through the regular vaccination programme in 2008/09 – there has been an 88% reduction in rates of cervical pre-cancer. This is a fall in incidence from 1.44% to 0.17%.

    Not only that, women born in these years who had not received the vaccine were also less likely to develop cervical pre-cancer. This was because the high vaccine uptake meant that HPV incidence was much lower in their age group, thanks to a phenomenon known as “herd protection”. This is particularly good news, since this group is also less likely to attend cervical screenings.

    2. The HPV vaccine is the perfect flashpoint for anti-vax wingnuts, who are fond of yammering about how HPV and cervical cancer result from promiscuity and thereby imply (and some just outright say) that we shouldn't be protecting females from the consequences of being filthy little sluts.

      At the other end of the spectrum, the Boulder trust fund hippie variety of anti-vaxxers hate the HPV vaccine as well, but their opposition is based more on pretend medical expertise derived from dedicated study at Dunning-Kruger University.

        1. yes

          Yep, the hippie types pretty much all belong to the "natural = inherently 100% good" school. It's actually a little bit fun to watch them lose their shit when someone points out they're advocating a form of eugenics.

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