Protect Our Care Launches Mobile Billboard on Capitol Hill and Delivers Report to All 100 U.S. Senators
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Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, January 8, Protect Our Care is launching a mobile billboard that will circle the Capitol from 8 AM to 4 PM slamming Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to Samoa in 2019, where his anti-vaccination conspiracy theories led to deadly consequences. The video accompanying the mobile billboard will also be used in a digital advertising campaign in key states of Republican Senators, including those who serve on key committees considering his nomination and those who have expressed concern regarding his opposition to vaccines.
Protect Our Care will also distribute its report on RFK Jr.’s deadly visit to Samoa to all 100 Senate offices on Capitol Hill. Activists will be fanning out across Capitol Hill to distribute the report and buttonhole Senators and staff to highlight the deadly consequences of putting RFK Jr. in charge of American health care.
The report, digital ad campaign and mobile billboard come as Hawaii Governor Josh Green meets with senators to raise awareness of RFK Jr.’s role in a devastating measles outbreak in Samoa. In 2019, Governor Green, a physician and at the time Hawaii’s Lt. Governor, visited Samoa in the aftermath to help vaccinate over 37,000 people. He saw firsthand how RFK Jr.’s vaccine misinformation contributed to the deaths of 83 people, mostly children, which he described in detail in a New York Times opinion piece this week.
Protect Our Care is calling on senators to oppose RFK Jr.’s nomination as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This report and mobile billboard are part of Protect Our Care’s “Stop RFK War Room” campaign to educate people on why RFK Jr. is unfit for the job and the insurmountable damage he could do if confirmed.
“RFK Jr.’s deadly visit to Samoa is a preview of what would come if he takes the reins of America’s public health care system,” said Protect Our Care Executive Director Brad Woodhouse. “Dangerous conspiracy theories have devastating consequences. RFK Jr. has a long track record of peddling costly lies – he believes no vaccine is safe or effective and has pledged to stop funding research for treatments and cures to deadly diseases. His past attacks on public health and continued refusal to accept responsibility for the lives lost in Samoa are among the many reasons why RFK Jr. is deeply unqualified and unfit to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.”
Mobile Billboard/Digital Ad Script:
Narrator: Robert F Kennedy Jr. is no health care leader. He’s a threat to your family’s health. RFK Jr. spreads deadly lies about vaccines, calling them unsafe and ineffective. His conspiracy theories fueled a measles outbreak in Samoa, killing 83 people, mostly babies and toddlers.
CNN Clip: RFK went and rallied that country against vaccinations. It resulted in the deaths of 83 innocent children.
Narrator: Now he’s been nominated to oversee America’s health care system – Medicare, Medicaid, vaccines, research. The health of every American is at stake.
RFK Jr.: There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.
Narrator: He’d defund life-saving research and drug development, gut the FDA, let diseases like polio and measles resurge. This isn’t leadership. It’s a death sentence. Tell your Senators: reject RFK Jr. He’s not just unfit, he’s dangerous.