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By JJ McElheney – September 8, 2025
Dear Senators Ossoff and Warnock:
I have written extensively to you both over your elected terms—asking for real time action to stop the assault to Georgia families from known pediatric neurotoxicant exposures.
Senators Warnock and Ossoff
This includes, but not limited to, those pediatric neurotoxicants HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, referenced at the Senate Finance Committee hearing last week.
A clear and scientifically modeled pediatric silent pandemic of neurotoxicants—first identified in 2006 by Drs. Grandjean and Landrigan—has continued largely unabated with America’s children suffering “brain drain” as a result.
Georgia children are now in the throes of this environmental health crisis that you both have clearly ignored.
Instead of providing me with legislative pathways to work with you and your staff in reducing the real time neurological assault and injury being done to Georgia children, you’ve both chosen to publicly bully and call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Kennedy.
I have shared with your staff members how the CDC egregiously violated my family and many other families that I have advocated for across the state and country for two decades:
This blatant corruption of CDC in generating erroneous ATSDR public health investigative reports—in order to intentionally downplay known chemical assaults on envirovictims to appease and defend perpetrators, is criminal in nature.
You both have prioritized protecting this corruption and coverup of the CDC—as opposed to acknowledging the envirovictims, strengthening maternal/child health, and providing support to multigenerational families damaged by this institutional betrayal and trauma.
To defend the CDC and those federal employees who conspire with third party profiteers to deliberately deprive families of health and happiness is reckless, outrageous, unacceptable, and must change course.
Your politics of protecting perpetrators who have not been held accountable for this criminal assault on innocence, does not line up with either victims’ rights laws or Jesus’ teachings.
This kind of political abuse of power will continue to put children at risk for chronic diseases for multigenerations.
As an already confirmed nation of unprecedented Alzheimer’s and autism— with alarming trajectories of both conditions expected to severely strain our health care system—many neurological diseases are a result of a historical lack of political will to stop:
1. exposure to neurotoxicants in the womb
2. exposure to neurotoxicants throughout critical periods of development
This reflects an ongoing hostility to expectant women and their babies.
Not only have you both decided it is perfectly legitimate to take the lives of pre-born children in utero, your politics also firmly advocates it’s ok to permanently impair early brain development—which over both lifespans of mother and child— saddles them with societal struggles and personal scarring—that otherwise could have been prevented.
Assaulted families like mine are tasked with navigating overwhelming obstacles for their loved ones who sustain irreversible brain damage that causes cognitive, behavioral, and personality challenges—that no known cures exist.
What is stolen from these assaulted children also alters the foundational quality of life for their grandparents, parents, and siblings —which there is no treatment or process available to be made whole again.
Repeated adverse life events punctuate familial experiences that carry high degrees of chronic stress for primary caregivers—ALL because of the long reaching tentacles of greed violating the God given sacredness of parental/child bonds.
Brain health is a gift from the Father of Life. My faith informs me that this injustice of robbing potential from children will surely come to an end one day!
If either or both of you believe the God of creation is also the God of justice, and is near the broken-hearted, why are you running interference? God is very clear in His Word as to His thoughts on harming children.
Why are you letting the CDC get away with such extensive corruption while bullying HHS Secretary Kennedy in the most unprofessional and hateful manner—as he works on behalf of neurologically assaulted families?
Why aren’t the two of you working on behalf of your neurologically assaulted constituents instead of attacking Kennedy for his plans to stop this run away train?
Do something constructive to assist in removing damaging neurological exposures to children, or get out of the way of those who are leading this effort.
JJ McElheney
micahsmission@aol.com
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