I know.
As I was reading this “article”; I was wondering - who wrote this?
Rick Perry’s press agent??
GARDASIL; The vaccine had an opt out for parents. The vaccine is against cervical cancer caused by certain variants of HPV. Parents had way over a year to decide to opt out. The Legislature gave the man appointed by and working for the Governor the sole power to determine which vaccines would be mandated.
The Feds had already recommended Gardasil and placed it on the Vaccines for Children list of vaccines free for Medicaid and indigent patients.
The Governor used this EO to make the opt out process possible and more convenient for more parents.
ME - My son had a reaction to the Polio vaccine - WHO mandated it? And - it was REALLY madated, not an opt out.
The TTC has been in the works many years before Perry appeared.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4535418.html
Perry’s vaccination order still stoking fires
AUSTIN — Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry’s order mandating
that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4528909.html
Critics rip Perry’s vaccine mandate
Governor rejects opponents’ calls to reverse order
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry stood firm Monday against a political firestorm generated by his
order that sixth-grade girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.
Social conservatives from Texas to Washington called on Perry to reverse his order making
Texas the first state to require the vaccine, saying the mandate makes sex seem permissible
and that parents should be the ones to decide whether to immunize their daughters.
And several Texas lawmakers expressed outrage at Perry for circumventing the legislative process.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/us/26texas.html
The vaccine, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck, which was represented in Austin by the
lobbyist Mike Toomey, who was chief of staff for Mr. Perry from 2002 to 2004.
Why is everyone so up in arms over the Guardasil issue?
How is it any different than requiring parents to vaccinate their children for smallpox (back before smallpox was wiped out in America). Or typhoid, or measles/mumps/rubella, or any of the other vaccinations that schools require before children are allowed to be enrolled?
To d@mn the man for following the trend is really only okay if you d@mn the trend in the first place. To say nothing about the other vaccinations, but then scream bloody-murder over this one... really just comes across as rank hypocrisy.
As a fellow Texan, I’ll grant your critiques for the sake of argument, and yet when you lay those up, along with the rest of his record (prolife bills passed, eminent domain/property rights, solid fiscal conservative, low tax state, tort reform), he still comes off pretty good compared to some others.
And recall, Perry went right vs KBH and won big. Panderer though he is, he’s one of the few who panders to the conservative base.
In fact, despite his Democrat roots and pandering ways, its hard to make the case that he isnt conservative enough for the base ... to wit:
Perry v Romney - who is more conservative?