who cares? I don’t.
Editorial: Memo To GOP: The Foe Is Obama, Not Perry (Excellent Point!!!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2782952/posts
“Texas Gov. Rick Perry must have felt a bit like Gen. Custer at Little Big Horn at the Orlando debate, a made-for-TV contrivance in which those who have a real chance to be president must take pokes and jabs from those who don’t.
... we must understand that while the goal is the nomination, the prize is the White House. Lost in the brouhaha over tuition for illegal aliens and mandated vaccines is the fact we simply can’t afford four more years of President Obama.
Perry has given awkward responses. How can he debate the president, the whispers ask. Sound-bite debates in which you thrust and parry (no pun intended) with eight other candidates, as well as the pundits, are one thing. Comparing your job-creating pro-growth record in a booming state to the record of the arguably worst president in American history is something else.”
In 2006, Sarah Palin was elected governor of the great state of Alaska. In June of 2007, Alaska accepted federal funding to boost access to Gardasil, the HPV vaccine.
( Juneau, Alaska) ─ The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services announced today that an increase in federal funding will make it possible for all Alaska girls ages 9 through 18 to receive Gardasil ®, the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, at no cost.
At no direct cost, perhaps. But being federally funded, it had a cost. Millions of Americans outside Alaska bore that cost, involuntarily.
When did Perry claim that he did meet her before signing? All I’ve ever heard him say in detail was that it was during the debate to overturn it.
Doctors also fall prey to medical lobbying. The drug company convinces them that product x is the cure and many are swayed.
I just wish Perry would come out and tell the truth. If he honestly thought he was helping to prevent cancer say so. If the lobbying was about the drug’s promise, say so. And if he believed parents understood the opt out, just say so.
He also needs to fire his staff and hire someone who will tell him like it is. His reluctance to explain his positions will prove fatal otherwise.
Actually, the only one lying here is the author of this article. Perry never "claimed" to be lobbied by the woman before he signed the order. They were discussing who lobbied him, and he gave an example of a real person who lobbied him, to counter the charge that the only one who supported this was the drug company.
The question WAS about lobbying, and Perry corrected the false premise of the question, that nobody cared about the issue. He told the truth, unlike this article.
Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, is currently on the market for $120 per single dose. Three doses are required over a 6-month period, making the total cost for the HPV vaccine $360. On top of that, some doctors are charging office visit fees when the vaccine is given. If I had young girls, I would vaccinate them at an early enough age before there was any chance they would be exposed to the HPV virus. There is evidence that HPV can be transmitted by unclean hands and objects contaminated with the virus. I would not want to risk that possibility with my daughter’s future. And there is no way to determine what the HPV status of the men they will marry later in their life.
So, if I lived in a state that was proposing state-funded inoculations, I admit that it would be attractive, given the cost I would be paying to have it done privately. Also, if population-wide inoculations to eradicate HPV all together were done, that would be a better thing. It’s too bad that the vaccine costs so much. So, for those like me who want to keep our daughters safe, we’ll pay the costs ourselves. And, I would definitely have my daughter inoculated to protect her from her husband before having sex with him. For others, more hand washing, no premarital sex and not trying on underwear at the J.C. Pennies until you can afford the vaccine would be a good route to go.
Could he possibly have heard of this woman before he met her in person? Such things do happen once in a while.
Those favors to friends in high places have a way of coming back to haunt ambitious politicians, especially if they are Republicans. Let this be a lesson to other Republican governors who have visions of residing in the White House someday.
Speaking of “lies”!
Perry did not say at the debate that the young woman lobbied him BEFORE he signed the order for vaccinations.
What I gathered from his statements was that she was supporting/thanking him for requiring the shots, because if it had been available much earlier then she might not be dieing of cancer.
I haven’t seen a transcript of the debate, but I never heard him say he was lobbied before signing the order.
He was just responding to the bitchy accusations from Bachmann who claimed he was only doing it because he was lobbied earlier by Merck and a former employee to get money. ....No proof to her accusations. Loser!
According to ABC news? Believe the opposite, and you will be closer to the truth.