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I was saying that Obama is against the death penalty. His request for clemency for this punk is for two reasons - to show opposition to the death penalty and to try to put Perry on the spot. Neither ploy will be successful

I am a strong Perry supporter. There seem to be a lot of Texas Freepers who are against him for various reasons, the biggest I suspect is that they now favor another candidate and fear Perry like the Democrats fear Palin and Bachmann.

They talk about two things - the Trans-Texas Corridor that would have allowed a Spanish company to build two tollways across Texas, one from NE to SW and the other NW to SE. The company would have born the cost but shared the income with the state. They say that the farmers and land owners complained about losing their land to eminent domain but the plan gave the landowners a choice to join the consortium and participate in the profits if they didn’t like the price being offered for their land.

The other issue was his effort to have all girls of 12 and 13 vaccinated to prevent STDs and cervical cancer. The parents had the right to not have their daughters vaccinated if they so chose. The drug was Gardisil and it was made by Mercke. Mercke had hired one of Perry’s political buddies to lobby for the law and contributed $6,000 to Perry’s campaign fund. Sounds like quid pro quo but I don’t know if it really was or not. I would be surprised if his detractors are as pure as they insist he be.

Regardless, I support him.