Posted on 09/14/2011 5:34:41 PM PDT by MN_Mike
Many supporters of Gov. Perry have come to his defense over this Gardasil matter. The arguments are: (1) Gardasil should have been mandatory with the "opt-out" provision; (2) No big deal because the Texas legislature killed the Executive Order; or (3) as Perry says today, he made a mistake, should have made it "opt-in." Now comes word that Perry's top donor was the Republican Governors Association and that Merck began donating to RGA when Perry became its head.
Glad you agree. It’s a complete copout. Some of the most amateurish spin I’ve ever heard.
Yeah, ABC
McCain undermined the Bush White House and GOP majority in both houses.
McCain worked with the Dems and against the GOP at every turn.
Are you sure you want to stand by your sound byte statement that you borrowed from someone else?
So you can line their pockets with taxpayer dollars????
Sheesh! Remind us not to elect you to anything.
According to you guys, those are the only three candidates for President in 2012. I ain’t voting for ANY of those bums.
Conservative? LOL...yeah. WE. Log Cabin Conservative. Not that there’s anything wrong with that...lol.
uh, no I don’t agree.
You don’t live in Texas. I do.
Correct! The only group that has the worst hots for this Gardisil is the paulnutz, out of some dimented libertarian thing.
Bachmann and Santorim grabbed onto it because they they saw it purely as a way to tear down Perry. Bachmann is slowly toast, while Rick and my good yard dog have always had equal chances at the nomination. The hoopla she heard at the debate when raqnting on it was from the paulnutz and she thought because they were the loudest, it meant this was a big issue. Best advise, right behind dump campaign mgr, is to not follow the paul lead.
That doesn’t make your ridiculous spin any more credible.
She should and she was making great points on the mandate, but then she threw unfounded allegations at Perry, it looked petty to me - she was already winning that argument. But she should have gone after Romney for RomneyCare which is basically obamacare.
Maybe at the time Perry’s chief of staff forgot he was a lobbyist for Merck, and Perry himself also forgot.
Maybe Perry then forgot that Merck stood to make uncountable millions on Gardasil.
Hope this helps. I’m drawing from multiple sources. The last one I reviewed paints this scenario:
Back in 2007, Perry seemed on the leading edge of a national trend when he tried to make Texas the first state to require girls entering the sixth grade be vaccinated for the human papillomavirus, known as HPV. Parents would have had the option to opt out.
Not only was his order struck down, but no state has enforced such a mandate since then. Both Virginia and Washington, D.C. officially require some students to be vaccinated against HPV but the mandate isn’t enforced in Virginia. Over the past month, Perry has started apologizing for the order, saying he should have made the policy “opt-in” and pursued the issue through the Legislature.
During the debate, Bachmann mocked Perry’s efforts to walk back his order, saying “Little girls who have a negative reaction to this potentially dangerous drug don’t get a mulligan.”
The executive order, announced late on a Friday, was an unusual approach for Perry, who more often has pushed his agenda via the Legislature. Three months earlier, state Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, had filed a bill very similar to Perry’s order but Perry’s office never talked to her about it, she said.
The question of whether states should mandate Merck’s Gardasil has been a topic of debate around the country ever since the FDA approved it in 2006. Many doctors endorse the vaccine but some parents worry that their kids might interpret the inoculation as permission to be sexually promiscuous.
While Perry’s order came as a surprise, his position on the issue was not a secret. In September 2006, Chris Bell, Perry’s Democratic opponent, said the state should require all young women to get the vaccine. Perry’s campaign told the Star-Telegram at the time that Perry agreed as long as there was a way for parents to opt-out their children out.
That summer, Perry’s chief of staff Deirdre Delisi had been meeting with Merck lobbyists about Gardasil. In October, Merck’s political action committee donated $5,000 to Perry’s campaign the same day Delisi participated in another meeting with Merck officials. Further complicating Perry’s position was that Mike Toomey, Perry’s former chief of staff, was a Merck lobbyist.
The connections between Perry and the company, coincidental or not, added corruption allegations to critics’ arsenal. Though Perry defended himself against the $5,000 donation during the debate, he has received a total of $28,500 from Merck since 2006 and the Republican Governors Association, which Perry has chaired, received $377,500 from the company, according to Texans for Public Justice.
“That usually defined [Perry’s] motivation for just about everything,” Bell said. “You only had to follow the short money trail.”
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09/14/3368184/foes-continue-to-hammer-perry.html#tvg#ixzz1Xz27WSG1
You really should stop trying to be reasonable. It makes heads explode.
Everybody in the world knows that Texas is one of the most conservative places on the planet and that it has been a major producer of jobs during the current depression in the western hemisphere.
We’re not guys—we’re Texans. You live to close to the North.
You’re like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And always good for a few more laughs long after the movie is over.
Any government agency can be disputed now and again by simple common sense.
I forgot about this one, because it only popped up once before. This one may be rare, but it does pop up from time to time:
If you talk about Rick Perry’s record, you are a Paulbearer. And you hate puppies and kittens too, but mainly the first one.
That is a flat out lie.
Perry is for border control.
Remember, LBJ was a real dude ~ not everybody's imagination. And so was Ann Richards!
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