Perry would agree with you! He as much as said selling out for a measly $5K would give selling out a bad name!
He said he’s raked in $30M and the last thing he needs is for all those million-$-plus donors to think they could have bought the same influence for a mere $5K!
Too much of the system in TX and DC operates this way, and Perry’s long been recognized as one of the biggest pay-to-play players. Gov. Goodhair is something of a Blago of the South.
If he has broken laws, he needs to be prosecuted. I hardly think this contribution makes him guilty of breaking a law. If this is the best his critics can come up with, it’s best to dig deeper and put the same scutiny on all the candidates.
You fool, its Medicaid vaccine program !
Gov. Goodhair is something of a Blago of the South.
Since you have already committed yourself to flat out lies and libel, why don't you just go ahead and accuse him of pedophilia and murder too? Then go back to DU and yuck it up with your fellow travelers.
Perry is not pure, but that is no reason to make the AP and MSNBC look honest in comparison to your evaluations of him.
Perry did not say that. You said that.
Perry said that his concern was to save lives from cancer. Perry pointed out that $5,000 was a completely irrelevant amount of his total contributions.
Just about every company making any worthwhile product makes contributions to political campaigns and they often give to both sides to appear non-partisan. If the Acme Company comes up with a drug that can prevent cancer in women and making it mandatory (but with an opt out clause that does not really make it mandatory) would allow low income women to have the cost covered, would Governor Lurker leave those women prone to cancer because Acme Company had given a routine $5,000 donation just like every other major company in the state had?
If the answer is, "yes", then you care more about sleazy "Gotcha Politics" that you do about saving lives.
Every single one of the females is now at risk for cervical cancer and every single male is now spreading HPV.
"But what does all of this have to do with my pure as the driven snow daughter?", somebody like Lurker might ask,
Well, Lurker, it has a lot to do with her, even if you keep her locked up in her room until her wedding day. You know why? Because you had ZERO control over her future husband.
Once a virgin bride sleeps with her husband on her wedding night, as far as a sexually transmitted virus is concerned, she also slept with every woman that her new husband ever slept with as well as all the men that those women ever slept with as well as all the women that those men ever slept with as well as all the men that those women ever slept with .... and on and on and on.
Before you believe that HPV only affects other people's daughters, think about that simple fact of viral epidemiology and then think about how much control you have had over your daughter's present or future husband.
Also think about the fact that the immunological protection built up by the vaccine is most effective when a woman is in her 20's when the regimen was started in her early teens.
After that, think about what the chances were that some boy in Wasilla, Alaska named Levi Johnston was a pure as the driven snow virgin when he started having unprotected sex with a 16 year old named Bristol.
After that, think about what girl from Wasilla, Alaska also has a very good chance of already being exposed to HPV and would have benefited from immunization.
To most voters in America, what Perry did was no different than trying to protect the young from all the other diseases on the laundry list of other required vaccinations and all the claimed "outrage" sounds no different than the outrage expressed by those in the 1950's that claimed that putting fluoride in the drinking water was a Communist plot against America.