The $ Amount It Took Big Pharma To Strip Your Parental Rights, is Evil.

by **GypZ** Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:14 pm

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SB277 passed. And some political campaigns got richer and more powerful in the mean time. But let’s start with the spin factory. (this disgust me)
(via sacbee) “We aren’t pushing this bill behind the scenes,” said Priscilla VanderVeer, the senior director for communications for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, the industry’s main trade group. The group has no taken no position on SB 277, although the group has long backed vaccinations as sound public health policy, she said.
This statement from VanderVeer is absolutely absurd and panders to the lowest denominations of our society’s intelligence. Who would believe this stuff? This can’t be real life.
Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat, himself nabbed $95,000 during the 2013-14 year. That’s a serious amount of cash from Pharmaceutical companies who just don’t seem to care about mandatory vaccinations, no? I wonder what policies he supports which they enjoy? It couldn’t be a more transparent situation.

The overall spend from Big Phama was $3 million to lobby legislature, the governor and the state pharmacists’ board. Again, a lot of cash for a group that isn’t “pushing the bill behind the scenes.”
State records show that pharmaceutical companies and trade groups donated more than $2 million to current lawmakers in 2013-2014.
Courtesy of the Sac Bee, this is a total joke. I hope everyone who supported this bill understands what these numbers mean. And when Big Pharma comes calling for more mandatory drugs, like forced SSRI treatment to depressed kids, please understand where it all started.
[size=40]TOP DRUG MAKER RECIPIENTS[/size]

Lawmaker	Party/District	Amount
Sen. Richard Pan*	D-Sacramento	$95,150
Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins	D-San Diego	$90,250
Sen. Ed Hernandez*	D-Azusa	$67,750
Sen. Holly Mitchell*	D-Los Angeles	$60,107
Assemblyman Brian Maienschein*	R-San Diego	$59,879
Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León	D-Los Angeles	$56,648
Sen. Isadore Hall	D-Compton	$52,400
Sen. Jerry Hill	D-San Mateo	$50,209
Assemblyman Henry Perea	D-Fresno	$49,550
Assemblywoman Shirley Weber	D-San Diego	$47,000
Assemblyman Mike Gatto	D-Los Angeles	$46,491
Assemblywoman Susan A. Bonilla*	D-Concord	$45,600
Sen. Andy Vidak	R-Hanford	$42,800
Assemblyman Tom Daly	D-Anaheim	$40,300
Assemblyman Kevin Mullin	D-South San Francisco	$38,400
Assemblyman Adam Gray	D-Merced	$37,000
Assemblyman Rob Bonta*	D-Alameda	$36,750
Assemblyman Anthony Rendon	D-Lakewood	$36,200
Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez*	D-Los Angeles	$33,850
Assemblyman Richard Gordon	D-Menlo Park	$33,100

*Member of the Assembly or Senate health committees
Source: Bee analysis of secretary of state campaign finance and lobbying reports

Pharmaceutical company or group	Campaign donations to current state legislators	Direct lobbying payments
Johnson & Johnson Inc.	$86,300	$583,926
GlaxoSmithKline	$32,250	$561,479
Eli Lilly & Company	$193,100	$280,863
Gilead Sciences Inc.	$77,600	$196,732
Biocom PAC	$30,000	$223,224
Sanofi	$48,000	$172,500
Abbott Laboratories	$173,600	$42,500
Astellas Pharma US Inc.	$47,900	$161,440
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LLP	$157,300	$49,583
Merck & Co. Inc.	$91,600	$108,204
California Pharmacists Association	$53,389	$134,176
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers Assn.	$137,950	$45,455
Eisai Inc.	$92,000	$88,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	$32,300	$144,101
Pfizer	$150,600	$21,250
AbbVie	$138,425	$25,530
Amgen	$105,600	$45,455
Allergan USA Inc.	$120,100	$22,757
Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.	$40,000	$83,348
Pharmacy Professionals of California	$32,000	$0