Posted on 07/25/2011 4:37:40 PM PDT by AHerald
Gov. Perry chose to bypass the legislature and on Feb. 2, 2007, he issued an executive order making Texas the first state in the country requiring all sixth-grade girls to receive the three-shot vaccination series (which cost about $120 per shot).
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The controversy over Perry's decision deepened as it came to light that his former chief of staff was a lobbyist for Merck and that his chief of staff's mother-in-law, Rep. Dianne White Delisi, was the state director of an advocacy group bankrolled by Merck to push legislatures across the country to put forward bills mandating the Gardasil vaccine for preteen girls.
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Just six weeks after Perry put pen to paper, the Texas House rebuked him on March 14, 2007, passing HB 1098, overturning his executive order by a vote of 119-21. The Senate followed suit the following month by a vote of 30-1.
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On May 8, the day the law went into effect, Perry held a press conference surrounded by women touched by cervical cancer. He bemoaned the tenor of a debate that he asserted had been "hijacked by politics and posturing," and blamed future cervical cancer deaths on those who opposed his mandate -- many of whom were fellow Republicans.
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And in fact, two years later the National Vaccine Information Center issued a report raising serious questions over the harmful side effects of the drug.... an editorial on Gardasil in the Journal of the American Medical Association declared that "serious questions regarding the overall effectiveness of the vaccine" needed to be answered and that more long-term studies were called for.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Using emotion to cloud facts. Typical liberal. Oh and hey, a dear firend died from cervical cancer. Gardasil would not have saved her. But if you believe the government knows what’s best for you and your family, you go ahead and support Perry. Hell, why not just support a democrat!
Yes, we’ll be way better off keeping Obama than electing somebody like Perry. The gardasil issue in Texas is just so much more important than pulling our economy back from the brink. It’s about priorities!
All of the republicans seem to have some defect and none of them align perfectly with my own views. Until that happens we may as well donate to Obama’s re-election, huh?
And here we go with the same sorry, ‘would you rather have Obama’ meme. If that’s all your camp has, don’t even get in the race.
“was the state director of an advocacy group bankrolled by Merck to push legislatures across the country to put forward bills mandating the Gardasil vaccine for preteen girls.”
...which used to be called Bribery Of A Public Official, a felony.
It should be noted that it was well known by Texans BEFORE he was re-elected.
Yeah, let’s keep Obama.
Yeah! To Hell with that stupid 10th Amendment and State’s rights when it goes against our conservative wishes.
What isn’t tough to prove is that he supported mandatory vaccination. I don’t care what he believed, where does he have to power to force it on Texans? That is tyranny. Smacks of Obamacare, doesn’t it?
Perry’s usurping parental rights over vaccinations is enough for me to dislike him.
You might want to click the link on post 22.
“His willingness to allow states to force homosexual “marriage” is also a big problem.”
There is no National Constitutional definition of marriage. We came close, but were sold
out into accepting a law instead. I knew it was a dumb idea.
Perry is correct, unless corrected by the Supreme Court, that it will be decided state by state.
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Only a mouth breathing half-witted crack head would believe Perry is our only chance to defeat Obama.
Is Perry your only hope to defeat Obama, or are you being a drama queen?
Well, I hate to break it to you, but that is going to be the choice and it will always be the choice. After the primary the choice will be one or the other, and nomatter who it is I’m sure our guy will be somebody that part of the conservative movement finds “unacceptable”. —Nomatter who it is. Ronald Reagan would be pilloried by most of FR if he were running today.
The left wins in this country because they’ve learned to be happy with imperfectly socialist candidates and incremental changes pushing the country leftward. The right loses because we want it all or nothing, all at once. In our woefully imperfect republic, that’s just never going to happen.
Just out of curiosity, are you on board with FR's opposition to the homosexual agenda or would you prefer to see homosexual "marriage" imposed on the entire country?
Because from what I can tell, you are pushing the homosexual agenda via some misguided libertarian philosophy.
Still a state’s rights issue. Let it be taken up in court. As a Conservative I cannot subjectively apply the 10th only when it suits me.
If you don’t like how the 14th may be applied then it is imperative to support the GOP candidate nominated. The next 4 years is extremely important as far as the USSC is concerned. The most RINO of GOP nominees is going to choose better than Obama. And, if he/she dares to nominate a Kennedy type, with all of the support of a Tea Party strengthened Senate, we can “Miers” the nominee.
I never said Perry is our only chance. Hell, I don’t even know much about him. But that’s not the point. Substitute whatever name of any of the republican candidates and I’d say the same thing. We have no idea who the primary winner will be... but it doesn’t matter because precisely zero of them are “pure” enough. That’s how we will lose, again, and against one of most easily defeatable first-term Presidents in History next to Jimmy Carter.
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