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January 4, 2010 Via Regular Mail The Honorable Chris Christie Governor-Elect State of New Jersey 20 West State Street PO Box 22 Trenton, NJ 08625-0022
Dear Governor Christie: As this is the very first letter that I am writing in 2010, I hope you will apprehend its importance to me. First, I offer my sincere congratulations on your campaign victory and upcoming inauguration on January 19th. Second, I would like to commend you on your courageous campaign commitment to stand with New Jersey parents in our fight for greater parental involvement in vaccination decisions. I am the mother of two boys (ages 11 and 12) and I voted for you because of your position on this issue. Both of my children exhibit various neurological dysfunctions (attention deficit, small and large motor function deficits, executive function disorder) and I believe vaccinations (both the number and the timing) caused or at least significantly contributed to these problems. I have friends with children whose neurological problems are more severe and I count our family as fortunate. As parents, we grew up in a time where autism and other neurological dysfunctions were diagnosed in one in thousands of children. At that time, there were only a handful of mandatory vaccines. Now we are required to give our children many more vaccines and we see today that 1 in 91 children and 1 in 60 boys is diagnosed with autism. Something is very wrong. Your election as governor has given parents like me hope and we look forward to your leadership and to the fulfillment of your campaign promises. Please keep in mind that most of us are too busy raising our children (and getting them the necessary services to deal with their dysfunctions) to stop and communicate with you. However, we are a large and ever-growing community of parents and we are paying attention. We would like to learn more about how your plans to make this issue one of your Administration's top priorities. Specifically, we would like to know the following:
Once again, congratulations. Sincerely, Cynthia Vasilakos Upper Saddle River, New Jersey cc: Mark Braden, Deputy Director, Transition |
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
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