Unabashed anti-vax celebrity publicly supports RFK Jr.
By Curt_Anderson March 24, 2024 2:58 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes)
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I was amused that John Stockton is apparently aghast at the cost to run a presidential campaign. This coming from a former NBA player, a profession where even the benchwarmers are millionaires.
I also chuckled at the thought that Stockton did "his own vaccine research", whatever that means. Does he have a lab in his basement? Is he conducting medical experiments?
(Politico)“[I] wouldn’t have even considered it before, wouldn’t have let my name be lent to anybody,” former NBA player John Stockton said of his vocal support and donations to Kennedy.
Stockton, a star point guard in the heyday of 1990s professional basketball, has signed on to be a surrogate for American Values PAC — though he admits electoral politics is unfamiliar to him.
“I mentioned I’m new to this,” Stockton said. He’s donated to the campaign but not to American Values 2024. “Frankly, I’d like to see all campaigns be less expensive. It seems ridiculous to spend tens and hundreds of millions of dollars to get elected. I know that’s probably the process and probably how this one’s gonna have to go but I don’t understand how PACs work that well just yet.”
Stockton said he started doing his own vaccine research after striking up a friendship with the chiropractor on staff for the Utah Jazz and supports Kennedy because medical freedom is a “huge” issue for him.
“He claims to be not anti-vax, where I think I’m unabashedly anti-vax,” he said.
Kennedy’s hero status in the medical freedom movement powered early support for his campaign. Though the movement is ideologically mixed, many of the supporters who have engaged with this issue since the Covid-19 pandemic lean Republican.
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I was amused that John Stockton is apparently aghast at the cost to run a presidential campaign. This coming from a former NBA player, a profession where even the benchwarmers are millionaires. 