Opinion of Carolyn Maloney

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Believes vaccines cause autism, so massive HP and one of a small handful of Democratic representatives I would vote Republican over.

I can’t find any source for that which doesn’t come from a Suraj Patel attack ad.

Good lord. Maloney is a great Dem and a very effective Rep as far as passing legislation goes. She supports very progressive proposals like GND and M4A. Lots have tried and failed to challenge her; her most recent primary challenger actually came close but totally embarrassed himself with bizarre Trumpian "stop the steal" tactics after she was declared the winner.

I hope this person loses by 50 percentage points, and that Maloney keeps this seat until she decides she wants to retire.

And is also anti-vax...

She's not

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2018/06/12/maloney-goes-on-attack-in-debate-with-primary-challenger-465191

At the hearing, Maloney said the debate over the link between vaccines and autism reminded her of people who dismissed tobacco smoking as a cause of cancer, and said, “You’ve got to just listen, you know, to — I remember smoking. I was on the City Council. I sat through so many hearings where they vowed smoking was not bad for your health. It’s common sense that it was bad for your health. … The same thing seems to be here with the vaccinations. There’s too much verbal evidence coming from parents where they break down [and say], ‘I had a normal child, I gave him a vaccination, and then they … came down with autism.”