Dr. Mercola, MD, speaks up about Portland Oregon's Fluoride Vote - with voting to start this week with write-in ballots for the May 21 voting - Dr. Mercola has posted a video of FAN's Michael Connett giving 10 facts about fluoride

10 Facts About Fluoride You Need to Know

April 30, 2013

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/04/30/water-fluoridation-facts.aspx?e_cid=201304306pack_PRNL_art_2&utm_source=prmrnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art2&utm_campaign=201304306pack

Story at-a-glance

• Water fluoridation has come under increasing scrutiny as health concerns, lack of efficacy in preventing tooth decay and ethical issues of administering chemicals via the water supply have surfaced
• Michael Connett, an attorney with the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), summarizes 10 important facts about fluoride that everyone drinking fluoridated water should know
• Facts uncovered reveal that fluoride impacts far more in your body than just your teeth and provides serious risks to infants, along with little or no benefit to your teeth, among others
• Portland Oregon's pro-fluoride have paid almost $120,000 to minority groups, calling it "grants for outreach services" Campaigns typically spend their money on advertising, consultants, polling, rent and other direct expenses, not making grants to other groups. Evyn Mitchell, the campaign manager for Healthy Kids (pro-fluoride), says the grants to minority and immigrant groups are 'a new and different approach.'”