Dick Cheney was on a show last week talking about EO’s.
They have a purpose if used as they were intended.
This is not one of them. They shouldn’t be used to bypass the will of the legislature. I don’t care about Perry’s description of “good intent”.
Democrats use that canard to justify just about everything they do.
Actually in Texas, the legislature delegated this authority (to select vaccines) to the Executive Branch. But it is to be done through the Department of State Health Services, so Perry bypassed one of his departments.
Sorry if that sounds like nit-picking, maybe it is. He did bypass established methods of getting this approved. I agree he did it wrong.
Perry was acting consistent with the will of the legislature.
I've gone over the history often on FR. The short of it is this: in 2005, the legislature passed a bill (HB 2475) with the goal of ending the morality of cervical cancer by 2015. Texas had 1,100 new diagnoses year and one-third resulted in death. The bill directed the state dept of health to study the issue and send a report to the governor. Delivered to him in Dec. 2006, the report ("Texas Cervical Cancer Strategic Plan") named widespread vaccination with Gardasil as the means to attain the goal. In 2007, Perry signed his order ensuring widespread access, medicaid and insurance coverage, as well as protecting parent's rights. He thought he had the authority, the legislature disagreed.
The controversy is over the last element which Perry conceded and has repeated stated he would go through the legislature if he had it to do over.