Mayor Bill White ordered a halt Wednesday to the city health department's privately funded drive to offer flu vaccinations at early voting sites in predominantly Hispanic and black neighborhoods, amid conservative criticism that the effort would boost Democratic turnout.

Seriously, anything that would encourage lower income, Hispanic or black people to obtain preventive health care in any way should not be convenient. Anything that would possibly put poor, Hispanic or black people near a polling location during election season...now that's just unacceptable.

Way to go Houston Republicans! Those people want to get the flu and we bet they even deserve to get it.
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