[ I’m not going to ever, ever, ever vote for Perry.
Rick Perry took money from a drug company (Merck) and has several other ties to the company, including his friend and former chief of staff Mike Toomey leaving Perry to work for Merck.
Perry made an executive order that every girl in the state had to get an Merck brand HPV vaccine (Gardasil) because he said so and new better than the parents of Texas. I could never vote for that kind of sleaze.
Perry has admitted that he made a huge mistake doing this, because what else is he going to say; but he’s also proved that he can be bought and paid for and that children are cannon fodder to him.
So... yes, this thing in Austin is sleazy, but Rick Perry using young girls as political payback is pretty much the apex of sleazy. What goes around comes around.
Life News: Rick Perry Admits Mistake on Gardasil-HPV Vaccine Decision^
CNN: HPV vaccine, Merck and Rick Perry’s money^ ]
Dems are just as guilty of this sort of behavior which is WHY they didn’t indict Perry on this....
So I should vote for/offer support to Perry because the Democrats are bad?
Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Perry passed an executive order which sacrificed children for crony payback. I will not support that. It doesn't matter what the Democrats do. I expect them to behave badly. I expect much more from our side.