Maybe Michele isn’t cooked long enough yet, but Perry? Why he has cooked too long.
Michele has never attempted to force her will on the people. Perry cannot make that statement.
Michele has never attempted to force her will on the people. Perry cannot make that statement.
The specific instance of the HPV executive order (the parent article) does not support your assertion. I draw your attention to the so called "opt-out" provision included in the Parents Rights section:
The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law.
You can find the text of the order here. I wish more of the articles about this provided links to the primary sources...
Michele has never attempted to force her will on the people. Perry cannot make that statement.
Actually, the more I think about that statement, the more ill-posed I think it is. Any governor, representative, senator, or president who has voted for or signed a revenue bill that includes taxes or required a permit to drive, hunt, or cross a border has forced his or her will upon the people. This is the nature of a representative form of government. The question might be better framed, "How has politician X balanced the often opposite forces of protecting individual liberties while maintaining the order and other conditions required for a functioning society?"
The HPV executive order shows one example of Gov Perry's attempt to maintain both individual liberty and access to what the NIH calls an effective vaccine against a leading cause of cervical cancer. One might raise legitimate questions around whether he was right to bypass the legislature or whether his aide had an apparent conflict of interest with Merck, but the text of the order is what it is.
I might ask you, as a supporter of Mrs. Bachmann, to point to some legislation she was instrumental in crafting that shows how she balances individual liberties with the need to have a functioning government.