“I agreed with their decision. I don’t always get it right, but I darn sure listen,” he said of the legislature responding to his decision.
“One of the things I do pride myself on, I listen. When the electorate says, ‘Hey, that’s not what we want to do,’” Perry told Houston’s ABC affiliate on Monday. “We backed up, took a look at what we did. I understand I work for the people, not the other way around.”
Had he really reacted this way this wouldn't be much of a story. However, what he did and said when the people and the Republican legislature overturned his EO is far from the picture he paints now.
In response to the legislature’s rebuke, the infuriated governor attacked those who supported repeal as “shameful” spreaders of “misinformation” who were putting “women’s lives” at risk. Borrowing a tried-and-true Alinskyite page from the progressive left, Perry surrounded himself with female cervical cancer victims and deflected criticism of his imperial tactics with emotional anecdotes.
He then lionized himself and the minority of politicians who voted against repeal of his Gardasil order. “They will never have to think twice about whether they did the right thing. No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.”
I don’t get your point. We would all be better off with that vaccine added to the other mandated vaccines. It prevents cervical cancer in women. Without the “mandate,” we have to pay for it out of pocket. It’s $360. No one is going to do it. Cervical cancer will continue. I was wrong about the thing when it happened, too, just like everybody else. Now that I’ve learned what happened, I’m ashamed. It’s terrible that the issue was so complicated, because it is not easily explained unless people do their due diligence. No one does their due diligence. It’s all sound bites and “Gardisil” and OMG he forced needles into girls’ arms. Pitiful.