You keep fighting, PUD!  Even if it’s for totally different reasons than mine, resist that fluoride as long and hard as you possibly can!  I’ll be cheering you on!

Stop PUD on this fluoride issue. This is not their call. They can be sued and will surely lost even if they succeed.

Ifarm, the commissioners could be sued if they take the action of putting fluoride into the water—for significant direct and indirect damages if the fluoride results in high lead levels. The cost of remediation, cost of special education for any kid found with educational issues and a high lead level.

The PUD could be **fined** for refusing to do it—after a Court hearing (which could be appealed by both sides until it reaches the Supreme Count of the US, some 10 years and a small fortune, from now) if they cite potential violation of EPA lead levels for drinking water.

We could see it built and the *moment* it is put into operation, anyone could file an injunction in a Federal Court seeking to stop it because it may cause inappropriate lead levels in drinking water.

Like other public utility districts in our state, I wonder who audits and oversee them? I know a couple of PUD’s that got in trouble due to their bad decisions.

I just check the National Institute of Health database and found “Prevalence of children with elevated blood lead (PbB>10microg/dL) is about double that in non-fluoridated communities” PMID: 17420053, what is more concerning is it’s citation that “In 1999 and 2000, senior EPA personnel admitted they knew of no health effects studies” on fluoride. Kudos to the PUD for being responsible.

“Saying fluoride can prevent dental cavities, the county commissioners acted as the county Board of Health in May when they voted 2-1 to require Skagit County Public Utilities District to fluoridate its main water system.”

Scientific studies have shown time and time again that the risks of fluoridation are far greater than any potential benefit.  What information are the commissioners looking to when making this determination?

“What information are the [impostor] commissioners looking to when making this determination?”

In a word: $$$

The evidence strongly suggests that this is a business deal, nothing more.

What evidence, what deal?  Please go on and provide more information, Don.

Review the information at http://www.skagitcleanwater.org/fluoride-101/gih-tracy-garland.html . By her own admission, WDSF CEO Tracy Garland confesses that the push for fluoridation is about corporate giving, “adventures in public policy grantmaking,” disguised as public health concerns. Long before fluoridation opponents had any warning, the WDSF was already on a “shopping spree” throughout Skagit County, rounding up as many so-called professionals as possible who could parrot the phrase “safe and effective” over and over with nothing other than endorsements to back it up. The county commission is listed as one of their stops. Impostor commissioner Dahlstedt’s solid support of fluoridation is a matter of record in the SVH as early as June 2005.

I’d gladly pay a dollar a day to keep fluoride out of the Public water supply.

ps.....the toxic waste two of the Skagit County Commissioners want to put into our water supply ISN’T the dental fluoride you find in toothpaste but the residue left over from chemical fertilizer plants.

From the “Fluoridation Engineering Manual” by E. Bellack, Report EPA-520/9-74-022:

Water purveyors typically add a fluoride in the form of sodium hexafluorosilicate or hexafluorosilicic acid, at a level between 0.7 and 1.2 ppm. These compounds originate as side products from the processing ("defluorination") of phosphate ores to prepare fertilizers, food additives, etc.

Thanks, Don.  I’d love to see Mr. Dahlstedt speak publicly on the data that justifies his solid support.

Also, great information, Lee. haha We’ll pay a dollar to keep fluoride OUT of public water.

If its unlawful for the PUD to accept money from the WDSF, then its UNLAWFUL!
What does Honea expect, the attorney general to re-writethe constitution? If this is the case then the Attorney General will end up breaking his own oath of office to uphold the constitution.

I went to the PUD meeting last Tuesday and we need alot more people to show up that are anti-fluoride! It seems that the meeting between the PUD commissioners and the County Commissioners will take place on December 22nd at the PUD. For anyone that wants to show up make sure to check the PUD website just in case they change the date.
Since fluoridation is suppose to cost at least 3 million and the WDSF is only putting in 1 million, who are the county commissioners targeting to pay the other 2 million? THIS has never been answered, if its the ratepayers then we will be paying way more than pennies per month, like we were told.

Dahlstedt will never speak publicly on the fluoride issue because he doesn’t have any scientific data to back up his claims.

To get an idea of just how desperate these people are to have our water polluted, take a look at the wording in Resolution #20070284 at http://www.skagitcleanwater.org/law-library/2007-11-27--AGO-Request-Signed.pdf . Drafted by Weyrich’s office, they had the intellectual deceit to claim that dental caries qualify as an “infectious, contagious disease.” That allowed the Board of Health to exercise its so-called “police power,” which in this case has been perverted in order to fit somebody’s business plan, not to address a health crisis that is treatable in this manner. Indeed, the bulk of the “whereas’” are works of science fiction that have been debunked by the National Research Council. The welfare of infants who are harmed by fluoride has been completely ignored.

At several County Commissioners’ hearings, County Health Officer (cough cough) Howard Leibrand has presented false testimony in support of water fluoridation. According to him, it is only fear mongers and kooks who believe that the thyroid gland is affected by fluoride. Since fluoride was once the standard treatment for an overactive thyroid, any middle school science student could tell Leibrand what it does to a healthy one! Those who are borderline hypothyroid are going to become ill and probably given Prozac because subclinical hypothyroidism is misdiagnosed routinely as “depression.” There’s one great big medical anomaly for Dahlstedt, who steadfastly maintains that he can find none in fluoridated Anacortes. Count the number of people on antidepressants around here.

IFARM - It has nothing to do with a bad decision on the part of the PUD, they want to make sure they are not doing anything unlawful, which is honorable.

Jo Roark - You are wrong!!

Ifarm, bad form!  What kind of debator are you if you can only shout your opinion with nothing to back it up.  Don’t just say Jo is wrong, give us some proof, some intelligence on the matter.  Just saying “Jo Roark - You are wrong!!” does not make you right, you know.  If you can’t bring a real thought to the table, maybe you belong elsewhere.

Shrug is right, put some thought into it. Or maybe IFARM is pro fluoride, he can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk…

I guess the meeting for the PUD and the county commissioners is probably going to be in January, I was wrong about December, for anyone that is interested.

Jo Roark - You are also wrong!! and I don’t need to explain further. This forum is not the place for debates nor to judge someone’s opinion. It is a place to post comments only in accordance with the site’s R & R...and that I abide with. Those that tries to express themselves whether in favor or against are just welcome as far as I am concerned. All I can finally say is...you are wrong again and in violation..case closed.

But Ifarm - Jo might be wrong, but since you just wrote “You are wrong”, I’m not sure what you mean.  What is Jo wrong about, and what is right?  Just curious, I’d like to know.

And you’re NOT sitting in judgment, Ifarm? You’re not getting away with that bull. Jo Roark has violated nothing in this site’s Terms of Use. On the other hand, you have broken basic intellectual codes of conduct by arguing with nothing more than simple contradiction. You are complaining because you cannot walk your talk or refute anything that she has posted. By all means you DO need to explain further if you are going to call out someone and expect to be taken seriously. Now, I say that since medical history proves that fluoride lowers the thyroid gland function, water fluoridation is the same as treating everyone for hyperthyroidism without his or her informed consent. What do you say to that, Ifarm? And don’t just tell me I’m wrong.

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