Posted on 09/14/2011 10:33:27 AM PDT by Scythian
But the story gets even more interesting when you start connecting the dots. A key Merck lobbyist, a man named Mike Toomey, actually served as the governor's chief of staff. In other words, a former top power person for the governor now works for Merck, the drug company that gave money to the campaign of the governor who essentially used dictatorial power to mandate, without any public debate whatsoever, the mass vaccination of young girls with a drug that will earn tens of millions of dollars in profits for Merck. Sound suspicious? It should.
The "dirty money connection" seems obvious to many readers who have been following this story, including one who posted, "Only a man, Rick Perry especially, would sign an executive order, bypassing legislation, to inject girls with chemicals made by one of his contributors even though most parents have never seen sufficient information about this vaccine.
Not quite...in the year when people get to vote on being forced into ObamaCare..is suspect it has far more traction than most can imagine...and it also reveals that fundamentally, Perry is a statist...and that he has a price-
-neither of which is particularly motivating for the right-
-nor reassuring that his administration will be sufficiently different from the preceding 30 years RinoCracy to provide the foundational changes required to reestablish DC as Flyover Country’s servant.
Yeah, Scythian. Give it up. Everyone knows politicians are really just Zombie Caterpillars. You vote them in , infected with your enthusiasm, hoping they will turn into this beautiful, magnificent creature. But they are really just creepy climbers that, when reaching the top, turn to sh!+. And rain that sh!+ down on the rest of us.
Perry is NO EXCEPTION.
Secondly, not all employees of corporations are prepared to lie to you.
Thirdly, news media types who make a living by inventing stories probably invented the one you were just reading.
The only thing suspicious about Ricardo Perrido is that he thought it was good to serve for 12 years as Texas governor.
My disputes with the guy involve his lamebrain and nationally counterproductive policies. For most topend politicians those policies are concocted by their closest advisors ~ for which reason we should beware of Perry's old cronies and donors should he become President. None of those people should be allowed anywhere near the levers of power.
You're correct -- no one in politics is without fault, but many seem to prefer perfection.
It’s a shame he didn’t have time to explain why he did what he did, though he did have sense to admit the approach wasn’t the right one.
Basically the reason the inoculation was made to be mandatory with an opt out was insurance reasons.
If the vaccination was purely optional, the insurance companies could opt not to cover it, and since it’s a $300 dollar shot, most would not bother. However as long as it was a mandatory inoculation, they had to cover it, and then parents could opt out.
Perry was gaming the system against the insurance companies to try to help with cancer prevention. Granted, an executive order isn’t a great way to do things, but it’s not like the $2000 Merk donation is even noticeable on someone who can raise money like Perry.
I mean you can either assume he is going to notice a donation which doesn’t make the 0.1% mark, or you can assume he was trying to help with cancer prevention.
One would have to be pretty stupid to do something like this for a piddling donation. I don’t think Perry is stupid.
And yet, this is a common occurrence amongst Democrats. Chicago and cronyism is the modus operandi for the current administration.
I doubt that I could vote for Perry, but this is sure showing that the WH is scared of his potential.
My position is that some folks are trying too hard to beat up Rick Perry over this issue.
My position is also that some folks are trying too hard to beat up Michelle Bachmann over this issue.
If one group says, "Oh, but I'm right! That other canddiate is scum! Just look at the facts!!" then I think they are using a small issue to sabotage a worthwhile Republican candidate. Why shoudl Republicans do the work of the media?
More nonsense. I notice everyone conspicuously avoids seeking the opinion of the medical community on this. The real issue here is that this vaccination is to prevent a sexually transmitted disease and there are a bunch of parents that simply refuse to admit the possibility that their little darling might need it.
This guy guest hosts on Alex Jones. He’s a loony anti-vaccine alternative medicine pushing kook.
He’s a nutter kook. He’s an alternative medicine quack who is against all vaccines.
It's a shame Perry, or apparently anyone around him, couldn't see this as a potential blast from the past and have some safe, perfectly logical explanation all set down and memorized.
You explaining it now just makes me think Perry is stupid.
Excuse me!
But what’s all this hype about a vaccine, designed to address only 4 of 11 types of HPV?
More socially engineered, false sense of “no consequences”!
What about the other 7 HPV’s and 99 remaining STD’s?
Honestly I think Perry know he would not have time to properly explain the situation so he just accepted that he was wrong and try to get past it.
In a longer venue, he would be able to properly lay it out, but the debate was all about short sound bites.
It's so much easier when you ignore character, integrity and trustworthiness and vote for looks and personality instead.
“This guy guest hosts on Alex Jones. He’s a loony anti-vaccine alternative medicine pushing kook.”
You want to know how to let America decline and fall through a second Obama term?
LISTEN TO THE NUTCASES.
Obama will LOSE unless he can convince Anerica that the GOP candidate is a loon. that is what they keep trying wrt Tea party. Whoever we nominate will get the treatment.
IMHO, Bachmann just made herself unelectable with her stupid comment about a vaccination causing mental retardation. She’s not a doctor, but she does have foot-n-mouth disease.
This anti-vaccine loon mis-stated multiple aspects of this story in one sentence (the ‘no public discussion’ part is laughable; there was PLENTY)
Loony anti-vaccine nutcases, loony 911 truthers, loony conspiracy Bilderbergers ... all cut from the same Alex Jones-y believe-anything-conspiratorial cloth.
LISTEN TO THEM and put the nutcase stuff forward ... and Obama wins.
I see your point about the debate.
I’m not running for anything. I’m not selling anything. He is. He’s trying to sell something. And maybe he’s already sold the better part of himself elsewhere.
Maybe he should clear the issue.
And it’s just me, you know?
I think ALL politicians are zombie caterpillars.
Nothing was ‘forced’. Not a single Texan is or was forced to take any vaccine against their will. Enough with the BS, Perry ordered his agencies to make opt-out EASIER, he made choice easier.
I understood there to be an opt-out of some sort that parents could execute.....
This is not an election stopper - it’s just distraction from other things.
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