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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: "Offer of free flu shots halted at polling places" |
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Makes one long for the days of good old fashioned ca$h...
| Quote: | Offer of free flu shots halted at polling places
Mayor cancels program after critics slam it as a politically motivated ploy
By MATT STILES, ANNE MARIE KILDAY and LORI RODRIGUEZ
Houston Chronicle
Nov. 2, 2006
Voting is good. Flu shots are good. But mix them together in the middle of a hard-fought election season and politics takes over.
Mayor Bill White ordered a halt Wednesday to the city health department's privately funded drive to offer flu vaccinations at early voting sites in predominantly Hispanic and black neighborhoods, amid conservative criticism that the effort would boost Democratic turnout.
About 1,300 flu shots were given to people age 50 or older in the past three days under the program, which didn't require the recipients to vote. Health officials said they were only trying to reach people in medically underserved communities.
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blue9t3
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I wonder if anyone was there to help with those non citizens who dont read english? 
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streetsweeper95B
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| blue9t3 wrote: | | I wonder if anyone was there to help with those non citizens who dont read english? |
Welcome to Houston baby  of course there was.......
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