Mayoral Debate on the Fluoride Referendum Question

Earlier today, Walt Cobb (WL Mayoral Candidate) said this on the Fluoride Referendum Question:

Walt Cobb is also critical of how fellow candidate Scott Nelson has handled the issue: “Well first of all, they’re (the city) suggesting through the referendum we’re already putting fluoride in the water which isn’t true. The second is the other candidate who is pointing fingers because he is saying the mayor should be doing something when in fact fluoride hasn’t been used since his term of office.”

The City hasn’t put fluoride in the water supply since 2005.

The referendum question will be put to residents when they vote in local elections November 19th. 

Cobb and Nelson are challenging incumbent Kerry Cook for the mayor’s chair.

Meanwhile - Williams Lake Mayor Kerry Cook (seeking re-election herself) says:

“There is certainly no intent to be misleading on this issue, we want people to be as informed as possible when they come out to vote on the issue November 19th.”

Cook also said the fluoride issue should have been handled years ago.

My take:

1) Ms. Cook, who's been here long enough, knows that this has been put to a vote a number of times including in the 2005 Election ( I remember voting no to continue putting fluoride in the City's water system but the community, as a whole, said to continue putting fluoride in)

2) Let's leave this issue as a "personal health issue" and not a political one, allow the community to decide, one by one, if it wants to continue or not.  But I suspect given the fact that the public is now informed that fluoride, in fact, has not been injected in the City's water since 2005 that they'll vote to kill it altogether

SBF