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Rand Paul Says Most Vaccinations Ought to Be Voluntary

TIME Health Infectious Disease Rand Paul Says Most Vaccinations Ought to Be Voluntary "I think there are times in which there can be some rules, but for the first part it ought to be voluntary"

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul waded into an increasingly contentious debate over enforced vaccinations on Monday, saying in a radio interview that inoculating children ought to be voluntary.

Im not anti-vaccine at all, the libertarian Republican said Monday, during an interview with talk radio host Laura Ingraham, but particularly, most of them ought to be voluntary. What happens if you have somebody not wanting to take the smallpox vaccine and it ruins it for everybody else? I think there are times in which there can be some rules, but for the first part it ought to be voluntary.

Democratic opponents quickly posted the comments to YouTube.

The comments come amid a growing furor over New Jersey Governor Chris Christies suggestion that states should balance laws on vaccination against a parents right to choose. He walked back the remarks Monday amid a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that cases of the measles had spread to 14 states.

Paul walked a similarly fine line, noting that while some vaccines were essential to public health, decisions over timing and dosage should be left open to parents.

Its not only Republicans like Christie and Paul who have found vaccine messaging tricky. President Obama, who urged parents over the weekend to vaccinate their children, previously said that he harbored suspicions about the (long debunked) link between autism and vaccines.

Weve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that its connected to the vaccines, he said in 2008, this person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.

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Rand Pauls recruiting letter for his opthamology board

Around 2002, some eye doctors began to get fiery letters from an ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Ky. He was trying to recruit them to do something odd: sign up to be "board-certified" by a medical board that hadn't existed a few years before.

The Kentucky doctor was Rand Paul -- the son of libertarian icon Ron Paul, who hadn't yet run for office himself. Paul managed to persuade around 50 or 60 doctors to pay the $500 and be certified by his new board. But he never managed to win recognition from the medical establishment, and the board had nearly faded away by the time Paul ran for office himself in 2010.

Letters to DocsRand Paul's recruiting letters for his opthamology board

David A. Fahrenthold covers Congress for the Washington Post. He has been at the Post since 2000, and previously covered (in order) the D.C. police, New England, and the environment.

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APC urges LG workers to demand salary from Fayose

February 2, 2015 by Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti 4 Comments

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has urged Local Government workers to demand for their entitlements and salaries from Governor Ayodele Fayose.

The party said the bogus debt figures the Governor was reeling out to council workers were fabrications to create alibi for failure to pay their salaries and entitlements.

TheAPC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun,challenged the governor to defend allegations that he orderedeach of the local governments to deposit N750,000 every month in an alleged secret Sterling Bank account in which he (Fayose) is alleged to be the sole signatory.

Olatunbosun said, APC is aware of the marble supply contract worth N100m to upgrade the new Government House the governor had earlier declared as too costly.

The governor has not responded to the allegation that he sold 20 of President Goodluck Jonathans campaign buses in his care to Ekiti State and donated 19 of them to the police which he listed as one of his achievements in 100 days.

APC is also aware that a contract of N23m for the decoration of each of the 16 local governments headquarters across the state during Christmas was allegedly given to the governors brother.

This is different from the deduction of N26m from the Local Government Joint Account without the concurrence of the council chairmen for security even when the security vote for the governors personal security has doubled but refused to fund all security agencies to secure Ekiti people from criminals.

We must insist that Fayose should account for all these funds instead of creating the impression that Ekiti State is permanently broke. He cannot sacrifice Ekiti people because he wants to pay the debts he owed those who financed his election, Olatubosun added.

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Fayoses clampdown on opposition, threat to polls

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose

The All Progressives Congress candidate for Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Ambassador Gbenga Olofin, has described the clampdown on opposition by Governor Ayodele Fayose as a threat to the 2015 general elections.

In a statement made on Sunday in Ado Ekiti, Olofin said the desperation of Fayose to rig in all his imposed candidates during the elections would be resisted by the people.

Four cabinet members in the administration of a former Governor Kayode Fayemi were arrested on Friday by the governments Assets Recovery Task Force for allegedly withholding government official cars.

Those arrested were Biodun Akin-Fasae, Ayodele Jinadu, Oluwole Ariyo and Dr. Bayo Orire.

The Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, however, invited them to a meeting on that day, where he explained that the police had no hand in their arrest.

I only intervened by calling them for a meeting and advised them on the issue, because if not well handled, it could heat up the polity. All I want is an amicable settlement, Lakanu had told our correspondent.

The APC had described their arrest and forceful confiscation of their official cars over non-payment of the cost as a ploy by Fayose to take its leaders out of circulation ahead of the February 14 presidential election.

Olofin said it was worrisome that the governor was supervising attacks on innocent Ekiti people because of politics, tearing and destruction of posters and billboards across the state in the day light.

Everybody is now sleeping with one eye being closed in the state because of the fear of unknown and the security across the state has been deteriorating because the action of the governor has heated up the polity.

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