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Rick Perry's Gardasil Problem
RealClearPolitics ^ | June 4, 2011 | Tom Bevan

Posted on 07/25/2011 4:37:40 PM PDT by AHerald

Gov. Perry chose to bypass the legislature and on Feb. 2, 2007, he issued an executive order making Texas the first state in the country requiring all sixth-grade girls to receive the three-shot vaccination series (which cost about $120 per shot).

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The controversy over Perry's decision deepened as it came to light that his former chief of staff was a lobbyist for Merck and that his chief of staff's mother-in-law, Rep. Dianne White Delisi, was the state director of an advocacy group bankrolled by Merck to push legislatures across the country to put forward bills mandating the Gardasil vaccine for preteen girls.

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Just six weeks after Perry put pen to paper, the Texas House rebuked him on March 14, 2007, passing HB 1098, overturning his executive order by a vote of 119-21. The Senate followed suit the following month by a vote of 30-1.

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On May 8, the day the law went into effect, Perry held a press conference surrounded by women touched by cervical cancer. He bemoaned the tenor of a debate that he asserted had been "hijacked by politics and posturing," and blamed future cervical cancer deaths on those who opposed his mandate -- many of whom were fellow Republicans.

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And in fact, two years later the National Vaccine Information Center issued a report raising serious questions over the harmful side effects of the drug.... an editorial on Gardasil in the Journal of the American Medical Association declared that "serious questions regarding the overall effectiveness of the vaccine" needed to be answered and that more long-term studies were called for.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: captaingardasil; gardasil; hedonism; hpv; identitypolitics; moralabsolutes; ourside; perry; rickperry; sexpositiveagenda; texas
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To: AHerald

Not just politics as usual, but also Perry as usual.

About all this Texan has to say about Perry is that he’s better than Obama.

As for those who don’t want negatives posted, this stuff is going to come out if he runs. Might as well consider it now.


101 posted on 07/26/2011 9:43:40 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: AHerald

If Bevan’s article is accurate, it sure looks like a textbook case of crony capitalism, influence peddling, executive arrogance and politics as usual. >>>

It sure does..Did Merck give perry and the republican organization a donation?


102 posted on 07/26/2011 10:24:55 AM PDT by Coleus (Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
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bump


103 posted on 07/26/2011 11:11:42 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Coleus
Haven't looked up Merck's total contributions to Perry to date, but this article from 2007 on the Gardasil mandate controversy does say that Perry did receive money from Merck.

Texas vaccine law, donation timing questioned - Merck spokesman says there's no conspiracy, accusation baseless

And the governor accepted a total of $6,000 from Merck during his re-election campaign, including $1,000 in December 2005.

104 posted on 07/26/2011 12:43:42 PM PDT by AHerald ("Do not fear, only believe." - Mark 5:36)
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Except that Romneycare implemented $50 Co-pay abortions so
I don’t think it is less egregious but Perry’s Gardasil EO is a
MAJOR disqualifier!!


105 posted on 07/26/2011 5:21:37 PM PDT by Lesforlife (Fighting to end abortion in my lifetime! Personhood Now!!)
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