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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: a fool in paradise; aMorePerfectUnion
His willingness to allow states to force homosexual "marriage" is also a big problem.
21 posted on 07/25/2011 5:03:10 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: preamble
Here is a frightening article about Gardasil. As it turns out, more females die from Gardasil than will die from cervical cancer. Also, the vaccine does not prevent all types of HPV, so cervical cancer screenings are still necessary. http://www.cogforlife.org/gardasilMerckAdmits.htm
22 posted on 07/25/2011 5:05:16 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

Using emotion to cloud facts. Typical liberal. Oh and hey, a dear firend died from cervical cancer. Gardasil would not have saved her. But if you believe the government knows what’s best for you and your family, you go ahead and support Perry. Hell, why not just support a democrat!


23 posted on 07/25/2011 5:07:14 PM PDT by rintense
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To: rintense

Yes, we’ll be way better off keeping Obama than electing somebody like Perry. The gardasil issue in Texas is just so much more important than pulling our economy back from the brink. It’s about priorities!

All of the republicans seem to have some defect and none of them align perfectly with my own views. Until that happens we may as well donate to Obama’s re-election, huh?


24 posted on 07/25/2011 5:13:48 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

And here we go with the same sorry, ‘would you rather have Obama’ meme. If that’s all your camp has, don’t even get in the race.


25 posted on 07/25/2011 5:16:06 PM PDT by rintense
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To: AHerald

“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.”

...which used to be called Bribery Of A Public Official, a felony.


26 posted on 07/25/2011 5:16:27 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: AHerald

It should be noted that it was well known by Texans BEFORE he was re-elected.


27 posted on 07/25/2011 5:18:41 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: preamble
The Somos Republicans are a pure pro amnesty group who called him the number 1 hispanic friendly US politician in the 2010 election cycle.

Governor Rick Perry is #1 Hispanic-friendly U.S. Politician of 2010 Elections

Somos Republicans encourages the GOP to use the "un American" tea partiers and then toss us aside.

How Un-American is the TEA PARTY

Are they so “irrational” and merely a self-centered group revolutionary geezers that do not hold American ideal and thus attack our American values—Democracy, Capitalism and Constitutionalism. Strategically, it seems like the right thing to do for Republican to utilize the Tea Party to diminish Obama’s agenda. But it is also time for Republicans that realize that this people merely using the flag colors as facade to promote un-American agenda . While they do have the right to dissent, sadly, their agenda pushed by special interest in Sacramento and D.C. do not embody the original best American values.
28 posted on 07/25/2011 5:19:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Ramius

Yeah, let’s keep Obama.


29 posted on 07/25/2011 5:25:19 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.. VOTE out the RATS!)
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To: wagglebee

Yeah! To Hell with that stupid 10th Amendment and State’s rights when it goes against our conservative wishes.


30 posted on 07/25/2011 5:35:41 PM PDT by Round 9
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To: traderrob6

What isn’t tough to prove is that he supported mandatory vaccination. I don’t care what he believed, where does he have to power to force it on Texans? That is tyranny. Smacks of Obamacare, doesn’t it?


31 posted on 07/25/2011 5:36:20 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight
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To: AHerald

Perry’s usurping parental rights over vaccinations is enough for me to dislike him.


32 posted on 07/25/2011 5:39:18 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

You might want to click the link on post 22.


33 posted on 07/25/2011 5:40:16 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Round 9
The problem with your theory is that if Zero can overturn the DOMA the 14th Amendment kicks in and EVERY STATE has homosexual "marriage."
34 posted on 07/25/2011 5:40:54 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

“His willingness to allow states to force homosexual “marriage” is also a big problem.”

There is no National Constitutional definition of marriage. We came close, but were sold
out into accepting a law instead. I knew it was a dumb idea.

Perry is correct, unless corrected by the Supreme Court, that it will be decided state by state.

ampu


35 posted on 07/25/2011 5:42:14 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (This message carfully checkd to misteakes by powerful softwhere)
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To: Ramius; rintense
Yes, we’ll be way better off keeping Obama than electing somebody like Perry. The gardasil issue in Texas is just so much more important than pulling our economy back from the brink. It’s about priorities!

Only a mouth breathing half-witted crack head would believe Perry is our only chance to defeat Obama.

Is Perry your only hope to defeat Obama, or are you being a drama queen?

36 posted on 07/25/2011 5:43:41 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: rintense

Well, I hate to break it to you, but that is going to be the choice and it will always be the choice. After the primary the choice will be one or the other, and nomatter who it is I’m sure our guy will be somebody that part of the conservative movement finds “unacceptable”. —Nomatter who it is. Ronald Reagan would be pilloried by most of FR if he were running today.

The left wins in this country because they’ve learned to be happy with imperfectly socialist candidates and incremental changes pushing the country leftward. The right loses because we want it all or nothing, all at once. In our woefully imperfect republic, that’s just never going to happen.


37 posted on 07/25/2011 5:45:17 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Round 9; Dr. Brian Kopp; trisham; DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah; Coleus; narses; Lesforlife; ...
To Hell with that stupid 10th Amendment and State’s rights when it goes against our conservative wishes.

Just out of curiosity, are you on board with FR's opposition to the homosexual agenda or would you prefer to see homosexual "marriage" imposed on the entire country?

Because from what I can tell, you are pushing the homosexual agenda via some misguided libertarian philosophy.

38 posted on 07/25/2011 5:47:14 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Still a state’s rights issue. Let it be taken up in court. As a Conservative I cannot subjectively apply the 10th only when it suits me.

If you don’t like how the 14th may be applied then it is imperative to support the GOP candidate nominated. The next 4 years is extremely important as far as the USSC is concerned. The most RINO of GOP nominees is going to choose better than Obama. And, if he/she dares to nominate a Kennedy type, with all of the support of a Tea Party strengthened Senate, we can “Miers” the nominee.


39 posted on 07/25/2011 5:47:45 PM PDT by Round 9
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To: Grizzled Bear

I never said Perry is our only chance. Hell, I don’t even know much about him. But that’s not the point. Substitute whatever name of any of the republican candidates and I’d say the same thing. We have no idea who the primary winner will be... but it doesn’t matter because precisely zero of them are “pure” enough. That’s how we will lose, again, and against one of most easily defeatable first-term Presidents in History next to Jimmy Carter.


40 posted on 07/25/2011 5:49:00 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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