Posted on 07/04/2011 3:32:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — Rick Perry is the 100 million dollar man of Texas politics.
Over the past decade, he has been a political money machine, raising more than $100 million for three gubernatorial campaigns and another $50 million for GOP candidates as chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 2007-2008.
But the Texas governor's fundraising prowess will be tested as never before if he runs for president in 2012. While he's raised more campaign cash than anybody not named Bush in Texas history, Perry faces different rules and greater demands should he set his sights on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
"In order to have a realistic chance of winning the Republican primary, Perry will need at least $200 to $250 million in the form of direct contributions or independent expenditures on his behalf," said Mark P. Jones, a political science professor at Rice University.
Perry has a host of assets that could make him a strong candidate for the GOP nomination: An enviable record of Texas job creation during a roiling recession, a consistent conservative record on economic and social issues alike, and an undefeated record as a political candidate.
But one longtime Perry supporter and donor says the governor has to answer "yes" to two questions before he says "yes" to a presidential candidacy: Is he willing to undergo the grueling demands of a campaign, from the nearly 24/7 schedule to the media scrutiny of every aspect of your life? And is he willing and able to raise the money to compete first with Republican Mitt Romney, a wealthy businessman with a nationwide fundraising machine, then with President Barack Obama, who broke every record for presidential fundraising in 2008 and is aiming to top the $1 billion mark in 2012?...........
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
That Perry’s EO contained the word mandate in the first place says he never intended for there to be an option - he would have said so.
Facts Facts Facts.... Just trying to keep the info as accurate as possible.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/executive-order/3455/
EO RP65 February 02, 2007
snip.....
Rules.
The Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner shall adopt rules that mandate the age appropriate vaccination of all female children for HPV prior to admission to the sixth grade..........
Parents’ Rights.
The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law.....
end snips
The EO was dated 2-02-07 and the Legislature passed legislation voiding the EO and the legislation became law on May 8, 2007. Thus no one was given Gardasil under the EO
HB 1098: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=80R&Bill=HB1098
"Parents’ Rights.The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law."
That is the fact and your are a liar.
Why must someone swear to be a “conscientious objection”
to be FREE, you RomneyBOT?
You serve Mitt Romney and RomneyCARE.
No wonder you LOVE the idea of dosing helpless children
without informed consent.
It was a MANDATE. Like RomneyCARE, it was FASCISM.
Go back to DU.
PERRY GOT $6000 SHEKELS. (plus stock sales ... shhhhhhh)
So, you didn't answer MY question but attempted to deflect it by asking a new question. (A common tactic) This shows you can't support your claim that Perry was taking kick-backs from Merk. I can only conclude you personally made that up or are parroting what somebody else made up.
This was not an attempt to attack you in any way. You are entitled to your opinion whatever it is. That said, I believe FReepers should be held accountable for their postings and keep it to their personal experiences, or statements that can be supported by facts from reputable sources. More light and less heat would benefit us all.
Why didn't Perry rescind his own EO? Why make the legislature do it?
Always with the negative waves Moriarity. Always with the negative waves....
Ain’t that tough enough! This should be Rick Perry’s campaign theme song -—>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhlOjmwHXU
LOL....... He just issue the thing two months prior to the legislature voiding it. That’s what goverment is about. Each branch has its own functions to provide. He did the EO and the Legislature did the law making.
The point being he did leave an opt out position available to parents if they so chose regardless of how it’s spun that he didn’t.
Moriarity? One does not have to be Sherlock Holmes
to see that something was rotten between Gov.Perry
and Gardasil.
So are you paid by the post? or by the thread?
The point is that HIS CHIEF OF STAFF worked for Merck.
Did everyone in Texas know that?
It is reprehensible.
Yep his EX Chief of Staff did work for them. What’s next?
I've been thinking about this raybbr and I am not a mind reader but it strikes me that Gov. Perry truly believed this vaccine would have helped a lot of people in Texas who otherwise might not have gotten this protection against cervical cancer (it was to help with 3 strains of the human papilloma virus HPV).
Rick Perry's wife Anita Perry was a nurse for many years and still is involved in health care as First Lady of Texas, so I imagine health care is something this governor is more aware of than maybe your "average" governor.
Another FReeper had some thoughts on this issue.
Then too Rick Perry grew up in a poor home and he might be sensitive about something he believed would have helped those who might get this cancer. Instead of applying the worst motives, perhaps his were good.
"He grew up in West Texas, in a farm town so small it literally was not on the state map until Perry, as governor, put it there. Life was austere; Perry was 6 before the family had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear Perry wore to college......" Source
And when the people of Texas said they didn't want this vaccine given, he let the people's representatives vote on it and did not oppose it.
FWIW, I was at an event last night with a group of 8 Republicans. There were 2 Cain supporters and 6 of us leaning Perry. Among my circle of friends and relatives, the buzz is Perry.
Moriarity? One does not have to be Sherlock Holmes...
Hey Sherlock!
That quote was from "Kelly's Heroes" Donald Sutherlund's character Odd Ball.
Until then, Perry's "love" for open borders and
all things Gardasil makes him a RINO's RINO.
PERRY GOT $6000 SHEKELS.
LOL........... $6000 SHEKELS wouldn’t even get them in the hello line. A five digit number may have gotten them in the meet/handshake line.
Have you EVER watched one of those ads for Rx on TV -- "YOU could have the sensation of death, feelings of suicide, acting out suicide, stomach aches, sore throat, dry eyes, crooked teeth, bad joints, sore muscles, falling out hair........" (ALL THE WHILE the backdrop is showing a picnic with butterfies, cuddly puppies and bluebonnets)?
YET the Rx is for sale.
What is your bag?
I knew I'd make you laugh.
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