You're reasoning is reminiscent of someone young and naive. Very intelligent, no doubt, but young and naive just the same. You like to go off into fantasies about what could have been or might be or basically anything other than what IS.
So now you're saying he may not have broken the law?
How on earth did you extrapolate that from what I said?
Let's say, for old times sake, that he took the money and didn't go with Merck.
No, let's not. Let's stick with EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. No childish 'what if something else happened'. What happened was Merck gave Rick Perry money and within days of that he issued an executive order mandating Gardasil for all girls in Texas.
I also asked you how you know that Perry wouldn't have made that EO had Merck had not given him 5k. No answer on that one, either.
I do know that the CDC in 2007 recommended the vaccine. I also know that Merck was the only company approved by the FDA to make the vaccine.
So, with that in mind, what did Perry do to break the law, and what law did he break?