And once again we hear from the no-brain brigade...
Would you please quit trolling Perry threads with the same old info, we’ve read 100’s of times? Are you that scared of Perry?
Mind control chips.
Merck gave a donation to the Perry campaign of $6000, hardly enough to *payoff* anyone.
Next.
Merck gave two checks, one for $1,000 and another for $5,000 to Perry in the 2006 election timeframe (in 2008, they contributed a whopping $2,500). Here is a source to view all of Perry’s contributions: ProPublica.
(8/13/2011):
When a voter in New Hampshire confronted Perry on the Gardasil issue, here’s what he said, “I signed an executive order that allowed for an opt-out, but the fact of the matter is I didn’t do my research well enough to understand that we needed to have a substantial conversation with our citizenry,” he said. “I hate cancer. Let me tell you, as a son who has a mother and father who are both cancer survivors.”
Perry said he’d invested governmet resources in cancer cures, adding, “I hate cancer. And this HPV, we were seeing young ladies die at the early age. What we should have done was a program that frankly should have allowed them to opt in, or some type of program like that, but here’s what I learned — when you get too far out in front of the parade they will let you know. And that’s exactly what our legislature did.”
A cynic may not buy his explanation, but Obama would never admit to a mistake at all.
Wow!
So there were 25,000,000 doses or Gardasil administered to all Texans?
Why don’t Perry haters have anything positive to say about their favorite? Maybe because you’re ashamed of Obama’s record in office so you have nothing positive to say about him.
There’s every reason to believe that the Governor supported Gardasil because it’s a good vaccine.
I was glad that the Governor also made it easier for parents to opt out of all vaccines by this same Executive Order.
I believe the Governor’s stated position that he thought the vaccine would prevent disease and that he was trying to get private insurances to cover it the same way that Vaccines for Children program covered the vaccine for all the girls on Medicaid and CHIPs and the uninsured.
Why CMA supported Perry’s HPV vaccination order
GOP presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry is taking a lot of heat from some conservatives for issuing an executive order in 2007 that required middle-school-age girls to be vaccinated for HPV — a sexually transmitted disease that is a main cause for cervical cancer.
Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical Association (CMA), says his group sent a letter to Governor Perry at the time. While remaining neutral, the CMA told him they were not opposed to his mandate, as long it included an easy opt-out for parents — which it did.
“In most states, and Texas is an example, it has to be a mandated vaccine before Medicaid and other children’s programs will cover the cost of the vaccine,” Dr. Stevens explains about his group’s stance. “Of course, the most at-risk populations for getting cervical cancer and sexually-transmitted diseases are those who are impoverished, and therefore, sometimes difficult decisions have to be made to assure that they’re going to get provision for them, while at the same time letting parents who don’t want their kids to participate ... opt out.”
Stevens says Gardasil is an “excellent” vaccination, and he assures that getting it does not mean parents are encouraging their children to be sexually promiscuous.
“Your children may live a moral life and have someone come into their marriage that has HPV; your daughter may be raped by someone who has HPV,” he poses. “And so through no fault of their own, [they may] get exposed to this virus, which can cause serious illness, including cancer.”
Perry has since stated that issuing the order was a mistake — and when the Texas legislature eventually overturned it, he gave his signature of approval.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2769266/posts