Rick Perry's drug scandal

[RecycleMichael]

Governor Perry ordered all girls in Texas get a controversial vaccination before entering sixth grade. The vaccine was to protect against HPV, a sexually transmitted disease. Of course, the Drug company had just made a substantial contribution to Perry's re-election campaign and hired his aide to be their lobbyist.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34533806/Perry-s-Drug-Mandate-Scandal-Dossier

[AquaMan]

Uh-oh.

[sgrizzle]

Controversial as in "strong social conservatives oppose it"

You flipping parties on us now RM?

[RecycleMichael]

If opposing government forcing all 11 year-old-girls to get shots to control a sexually transmitted disease makes me a conservative, then on this issue I must be a conservative.

[dbacks fan]

I'm not a Perry supporter but this was four years ago, and three months after he initiated it he let a law go into affect that overturned it.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/dailydose/2011/09/rick-perry-hpv-vaccine-misstep-the-real-problem-was-his-conflict/psB1rKIVqvwUkXARzFX1eI/index.html

[AquaMan]

So he gets to play both sides. "I was for it before I was against it" which makes him sound like a garden variety politician. Add in his former support of Al Gore, his sketchy jobs history which includes increasing government employees and you have damaged goods. The real problem for him is it re-affirms some reservations about him that devout TP's have with candidates who profess they share the same ideology then reverse themselves once in power.

And of course that lobbyist, insider, contribution scandal thingy. 

Every candidate has to face these contradictions in past positions and current statements. I'm anxious to see how he handles this stuff.

[Teatownclown]

He worked on Al Gore's campaign and he was a democrat. So what? Get over it...

That's like making a big deal about our President being an elitist, socialist, and worse, a muslim.

Send Rik Perry your contribution today.

[AquaMan]

He worked on Al Gore's campaign and he was a democrat. So what? Get over it...

That's like making a big deal about our President being an elitist, socialist, and worse, a muslim.

Send Rik Perry your contribution today.

Hey, this guy could seriously get the nomination. I think he's as strong a candidate as Romney as long as the republicans are resolute in making sure they stop Obama efforts at every step, the public be damned. Then it won't be so funny that Perry is the Paladin of politics.

[nathanm]

If opposing government forcing all 11 year-old-girls to get shots to control a sexually transmitted disease makes me a conservative, then on this issue I must be a conservative.

So you oppose what is literally the most effective (single) cancer prevention technique we have yet been able to develop? Or is cancer OK to ignore when it happens to ladyparts? I don't quite get it.

[Conan71]

Wow, RM.  Sensationalize much?  How much did the DNC pay you to post this one?

[Cats Cats Cats]

I don't disagree with his decision (although the medical community is always changing what is "safe" or how things work).  But it is pretty fishy to take cash from a company and then pass a law to take a vaccine.

[Conan71]

I don't disagree with his decision (although the medical community is always changing what is "safe" or how things work).  But it is pretty fishy to take cash from a company and then pass a law to take a vaccine.

No more fishy than your doctor taking payola and other favors from drug pushers to prescribe meds to you and your family.

[Townsend]

No more fishy than your doctor taking payola and other favors from drug pushers to prescribe meds to you and your family.

Different scale IMO.

[Cats Cats Cats]

No doctor I have been to has mandated that I take the drug they got money from.

[Hoss]

No doctor I have been to has mandated that I take the drug they got money from.

bingo.