*SAMPLE LETTER TO THE SENATE*
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Dear [Member of Senate],
Please vote against Heidi Overton for Food & Drug Administration Commissioner.
Overton is a medical doctor and has a doctoral degree in clinical investigation, but since completing her studies, she has worked exclusively in policy, starting as a White House Fellow in the first Trump Administration and then as the director of the America First Policy Institute's Center for a Healthy America.
As deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Overton was involved in Trump’s executive order to protect Bayer’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and related white-phosphorus weapons production from litigation under the the Defense Production Act.
Other than in her current role managing domestic policy issues, she doesn’t have any experience in food policy.
At her confirmation hearing, there are three positions she took that I believe should disqualify her from being put in charge of food safety:
1. She wouldn’t say she supported labels on genetically engineered food.
2. She suggested the FDA didn’t have the power or resources to require food additives manufacturers to notify the agency when they evade safety testing, and
3. She spoke in support of blocking states from passing their own food safety laws.
Like many of President Donald Trump’s appointees (and policies), Heidi Overton’s nomination is a betrayal of the Make America Healthy Again movement that got him elected.
Please reject Heidi Overton.
Thank you.
[Your Name]