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. 

Rep. Ann Johnson’s resolution HR 835 would celebrate Big Pharma and promote jabs by having the state mark March 29, 2023 as “Vaccine Advocacy and Awareness Day” to honor the Baker Institute at Rice University. Their Center for Health and Biosciences boasts “Fellows and Scholars” like Dr. Peter Hotez, who has publicly labeled TFVC as “anti-vaxx”, branding its supporters as “people actually eager to endanger lives of Texas children just to espouse their miserable pseudoscience ideologies”. The resolution specifically applauds the “Vaccines Cause Adults” program -sponsored by the Baker Institute in partnership with taxpayer-funded lobbying group The Immunization Partnership – a marketing campaign that promotes a mandatory state vaccine database and recruits pastors to combat vaccine hesitancy and misinformation by delivering “messages about vaccine safety” from the pulpit.

Serious question – are any Texans not aware of vaccines? Should the state be using its energy to market pharmaceutical products, promote a lobbying group that uses its funds to insult duly elected officials, celebrate organizations that seek to violate your medical privacy, and a “health expert” who admits to being a “junkfoodaholic”? Does Rep. Johnson believe this resolution is really a great use of elected officials’ time, while TFVC-supported bills like HB 609 are slow-crawling through the legislative process? 

TAKE ACTION NOW BY TELLING YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE TO VOTE “NO” ON HR 835 ON MARCH 29TH!

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SAMPLE EMAIL MESSAGE:

Dear Representative,

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.

This Resolution would use the power of the state to market pharmaceutical products and honor health “experts” who want to violate medical privacy and restrict medical liberty.

Thank you,
[YOUR NAME]

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