Republican runs for governor of Washington months after trying to undermine vaccine bill

Earlier this year, as Washington was suffering its worst measles outbreak in two decades, Fortunato joined the rest of the GOP caucus in voting against a successful bill that no longer allows parents to invoke personal or philosophical reasons in order to prevent their children from receiving vaccinations for measles, mumps, and rubella. Fortunato even tried amending the bill to allow children to receive vaccinations for just one of the three diseases as an alternative to the combined MMR vaccine, even though ThinkProgress notes that "a single-ingredient vaccine isn't even available, and taking two shots of the MMR vaccine is 97% effective."