Portland, Oregon Rejects Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water

May 23rd, 2013

Wow, very well done, Portland!

Via: AP:

The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water.

With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent.

Mayor Charlie Hales supported fluoridation and said “the measure lost despite my own ‘yes’ vote.

“That’s sure disappointing, but I accept the will of the voters,” he said in a statement.

Fluoridation foes were delighted.

“We’re very excited with how the numbers look,” said Kellie Barnes with the anti-fluoride group Clean Water Portland.

If the early returns hold up, “then Portlanders spoke out to value our clean water and ask for better solutions for our kids.”

Voters in Portland twice rejected fluoridation before approving it in 1978. That plan was overturned two years later, before any fluoride was ever added to the water.

The City Council voted last year to add fluoride to the water supply that serves about 900,000 people. But opponents quickly gathered enough signatures to force a vote on the subject.

Rejection of the proposal would keep Portland the largest U.S. city without fluoride in the water or with plans to add it. San Jose, Calif., — which is larger than Portland — has been working to add fluoride to its water supply.

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3 Responses to “Portland, Oregon Rejects Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water”

  1. apethought says:
    May 23, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    “Oh those misfits in Portland, why can’t they listen to reason and science? Specifically, mainstream, consensus reason and science,” says condescending, opinioneering Slate –

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/05/portland_fluoride_vote_will_medical_science_trump_fear_and_doubt.html

  2. alvinroast says:
    May 23, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    That’s awesome.

    You still have to wonder about the 40% that voted to add toxic waste to their water – maybe they’re transplants from Seattle in need of a toxic fix…

  3. prov6yahoo says:
    May 23, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    The more states that resist the feds laws the closer we are to a false flag op that will be used to declare martial law to put a stop to it.

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