You are right in that Perry has come closer to a mea culpa on HPV than Mitt has on Romney Care - and I didn’t make that clear enough - but he has only said that doing it by EO was a mistake and that he should have gone through the legislature. I agree he should have, but with the idea of government interference and cronyism being big issues in this campaign, I think he needs to go one step further than what he did.
Listen to it again, all he said was a mistake is how he went about it. Please governor, take it one more step.
I honestly don’t think he feels he did anything wrong in terms of wanting the vaccination to be included on the state’s vaccine list. The EO was stupid, though, and he did admit it.
If he really did enact the foolish EO in order to protect some of his constituents, then what would he apologize for? I find the claim that a guy who raised $39 million alone for the 2010 election would give a favor to a drug company that has given him an average of $2850/year during his 10+ years as governor to be absurd on its face.