Basic oral hygiene like toothbrushing, plus a proper diet, prevents %100 of tooth decay without forcing millions of perfectly healthy adults to ingest a controversial chemical agains their will for a condition that the vast majority of us do not have. Do not violate my human right to control what I ingest. Do not cut me and the entire public of Portland out of the decision of whether to contaminate a publicly owned treasure.

The power tripping bureaucrats who are pushing this through should all be criminally investigated to determine where money is changing hands to make this happen so quickly despite massive public outcry and a consistent historical record of Portlander's voting against fluoridation.

Government studies concluding that fluoride is dangerous or ineffective, Including studies from the CDC:
http://www.nofluoride.com/Government_Studies.cfm

Take responsibility for your own teeth.  If that's not good enough, maybe the city should spend $5 million on oral hygeine education and access for low income families and making fluoride tablets available for those who CHOOSE to ingest more "fluoride" (what will be added to our water is the industrial by-product hexafluoroscilic acid, commonly mis-characterized as pure fluorine)

It is my human right to control what I ingest especially when it comes to medications. For my city government to attempt to force me and the rest of the unwilling public of portland to take a controversial medication for a condition the vast majority of us don't have at a completely uncontrolled dose is authoritarian and frightening. For the city government to do this while ACTIVELY PREVENTING THE PUBLIC FROM HAVING INPUT is criminal and the people who are doing this will have a hard time living in Portland after this. There will be civil suits and hopefully a criminal investigation of how much money changed hands between Randy Leonard, Sam Adams, Nick Fish, and their partners in this plan to abruptly force an invasive, disgustingly arrogant policy on the public of Portland.

Communities like Gresham and others who contract with the City for Bull Run water and who were excluded from the secret lobbying process (and who found out about the flurodation plan via news reports, just as the rest of the population did) have a legitimate complaint. The process was furtive and sloppy, probably because Portland voters have turned down fluoridation measures many times before. Now it's clear that Commissioner Leonard wants to fast track fluoridation so that there is no way people served by the Bull Run can do more than come and speak helplessly at a hurry-up-and-get-it-over-with public hearing preceding a slam dunk vote.

What next? I suppose if enough of the public is angry, upset or depressed by what happens Mr. Leonard (who makes all the decisions regarding our water supply, per recent quotes from the Water Bureau itself, which wasn't initially aware of the full extent of his agenda) will decide that we need Valium in our water. And - once again - we will probably have nothing to say about it.