resent others trying to force their will on me”; “Will a non-elected bureaucrat be able to force on us whatever he may wish?” Conservatives gathered enough signatures to get a proposition they called the Freedom from Compulsory Fluoridation and Medication Act on the November ballot, worded so vaguely that officials feared it might ban basic health measures like purifying drinking water with chlorine. The American Cancer Society complained that reports fluoride caused cancer were baseless; the anger did not abate. One citizen pointed out that most water went toward “washing, baths, watering the
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