Under Scrutiny, Perry Walks Back HPV Decision
Updated Monday, 2 p.m. CST: Perry spoke to Des Moines-based WHO radio and was asked about his HPV executive order: “That particular issue is one that I readily stand up and say I made a mistake on. I listened to the legislature, they said that was not going to occur, and I agreed with their decision. I don’t always get it right, but I darn sure listen.”
And he said something similar to ABC13 Houston’s Ted Oberg: “I obviously made an error in not having a conversation with the people of the state of Texas rather than ...
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Laura Watts Kinnison via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ill informed my a$$! Helping a buddy--for sure.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry did say he wanted to replicate his "economic successes in Texas" for the rest of the nation....so let's see, we would need to multiply the $27-Billion deficit for Texas by 50 states....I need a calculator, my math is a little shaky since I had to share text books with 9 other kids in my high school days....in Texas.....
Laura Watts Kinnison via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And layoff 10,000 teachers in every state, and threaten that the United States succeed from what, North America?
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
everybody, together, spell M-E-R-C-K and Big Pharma!
Kevin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hey Jim & Laura - appreciate you letting us know who you really fear in the race! Liberal Trolls of the world unite - you've managed to trim the % of lib's down to 25% of all voters and falling - keep it up!!
Kevin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Obama has lost another 11 points among Democrats over the past 2 months! Yikes! http://reddogreport.com/2011/08/democrats-losing-faith-in-obama/
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
this is on MY own wall, so that makes YOU the troll, KW.
Plus, you've got some fancy math there....you must have gone to high school outside of The Republic of Texas. Or borrowed a calculator.
(BTDubs: When's the Secession Date again? Perry's been talking about it for years. Oh, when disasters like Ike and Rita and Katrina strike and he needs the FEMA Aids, he tends to shut up. $27-Billion deficit: Keep THAT up and America's in great hands with Perry.)
Chris Thornton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just because someone doesn't support Slick Rick Perry doesn't mean they're a Liberal. I voted for Carol Keaton-Strayhorn in 2006. And I voted third party in 2010. Rick Perry is an establishment RINO Republican. Because of the HPV vaccine issue and the Trans-Texas Corridor issue I will NEVER vote for Rick Perry. Ron Paul in 2012!!!
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I still don't get it, Kevin Williams: are you disputing that Texas is running a $27-Billion deficit in its latest budget? And that when Perry talks about, I quote, "replicating Texas's economic successes for the rest of the country," he's talking nonsense?
Who DO I fear in the latest race: anyone who wants to LIE about the "accomplishments" and how that should be spread to the rest of US? Yes, I agree with you there; I fear those candidates. Don't you? If not, what's wrong with you?
I'm just another fact-fearing American sick and tired of seeing a guy who keeps on ranting against the federal government and how it should barely exist, and that his state should just secede, but when his state needs help he will quietly suck up all the federal aid coming his way. I call this the "Keep Your Government Hands OFF My Medicare and Social Security" Syndrome that afflict so many Tea Baggers, just on a state level, and now he wants to do that for the country. Fearful, indeed, to anyone with at least half a brain.
Chris Thornton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I wonder what Presidential candidate Rick Perry has to say about his previous attempts to steal privately owned land to give it to a Mexican company in order to build toll roads? (Trans-Texas Corridor)
Lee Stinson
Perry Walks back. Perry steps back. Perry changes tune.
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/rick-perry-changes-tune-gay-marriage/
Perry is nothing but a lia r. Quit making it sound fancy.
Del Murphy
Rick Perry needs walks back HPV vaccination. Horse Hockey. He just switched gears to pander to the Big Pharma contributors with his Bacterial Meningitis Vaccine. That is going to cost millions of dollars on already financially strapped students, provide negligible benefit and puts your college student at needless risk.
http://www.vaccineinjury.info/meningococci/vaccination.html
Problematic side effects of the vaccines are mainly impairments of the central nervous system such as crying, moodiness, dazedness, insomnia, which occur relatively frequently after meningococcal vaccinations. These side effects indicate that the brain is directly involved. Long-term effects have not been investigated yet!
If you want a brain like Perry's, knock yourself out. (pun intended).
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/09/21/major-concerns-surround-meningitis-vaccine-for-college-students.aspx
Only 5-15 college students nationwide die from this disease each year. (nationally!!!)
We have more college kids IN TEXAS from binge drinking and drowning.
This is a Rick Perry Solution, money in his bulgin pocket, looking for a nonexistent problem. Kids lifestyles are the biggest contributor to this extremely rare phenomena. Perry wants to get government off your back while he is literally sticking it to your ass.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Chris: I think Rick would call that "replicating our economic successes for our Mexican friends" or maybe "just carrying out NAFTA"
Donna Prothro Streetenberger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why would he require young girls to get the vaccination if his stance is that abstinence works?
Rodney Marsden via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mr.Hsu, KW is the troll here. His profile pic is him and Prick Fairy!!! He's just a religious idiot that knows no better than to be led by his nose.
John Roberts
Perry made money for doing "the right thing." Now he'll make money for doing the wrong thing. And I wonder if he wants Texas to secede before or after he gets elected.
Rodney Marsden via Texas Tribune on Facebook
KW...I'd like you to cite the source on your claim of 25% liberal voters!!!
James Birdsong via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So, can it be said that he was for it before he was against it? This man is a genuine fake. Thank goodness the role of a Texas governor is relatively weak office, or else his crown would obscure his hair.
DMedina
One might ask what was the logic then behind signing the bill for mandatory meningitis vaccine this session for all college students? Those philosophizing about limited government would show their authenticity in action, to wit, healthcare decisions are best left in the hands of patients and doctors, not government.
Joe Brooks
Rick Perry and the Conservative Lonely Hearts Club
Just when my heart was about to heal and I was ready to move on with my life, a sadder, wiser man, a suitor comes a’ calling. I want to, I really, really want to believe you’re the man for me, Rick Perry. But I’ve just been hurt so many times before. Sure, you say all the things that I like to hear:
"To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, I realized that the United States of America really is the last great hope of mankind. What I saw was systems of government that elevated rulers at the expense of the people. Socialist systems cloaked maybe in good intentions but were delivering misery and stagnation. And I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God."
Oh my! Lincoln, Reagan, God, capitalism and country all rolled up into one. There’s no denying that you have a way with words. But, words are just words and may ex said a lot of the same words before he starting spouting dribble about “compassionate conservatism” and running up the national debt like the bill would never come due. Those kinds of wounds heal oh so slowly!
Read the rest at The Immaculate Conservative:
http://bit.ly/ovuiEk
Laura Watts Kinnison via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hey Kevin! Not liking a skank like Rick Perry makes me a Liberal? Hardly. But excellent job of regurgitaing FOX News gibberish.
Thomas Jefferson
But before Republicans get too excited about Rick Perry, there are a whole lot of things that they should know about him.
The following are 14 reasons why Rick Perry would be a really, really bad president....
#1 Rick Perry is a "big government" politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.
#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.
#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?
#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.
#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a "track record" of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.
#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.
#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore's campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.
#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.
#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year....
• ?We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
• ?We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.
• ?We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.
#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.
#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.
#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.
#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when "apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck's hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work."
Rick Perry has a record that should make all Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Independents cringe.
east girl
Well, back when Perry attempted to push this law through, Perry did enough research to find out about payments he could receive exponentially from the drug companies - by looking at our population growth due to the large number of new Immigrants coming to Texas...
Lillian Bradley
Congratulations on this amazing story. I was all ready for a big cover up. Instead I got honest reporting. Just what I want. A leader who pleads ignorance. Isn't that what we have now? Isn't understanding the Constitution beyond Obama's level of comprehension by his own admission that he is no Constitutional Scholar? And the spin goes on, but, we're on to ya big boy.
d ytigaff
And yet another reason he disqualifies himself from the office of President.
Maybe all those women should just pray ( yet another!) that they don't get cervical cancer....
Control Freaks
This Moron is starting off on entirely the wrong foot if he wants to be considered the GOP candidate. Do we REALLY need another Obama? Now the HPV deal is SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT? What about allowingCameron Todd WIlligham to die? Perry allowed a PROVEN INNOCENT MAN TO DIE!! Who's fault will that be?
Perry isn't doing anything else that most lying, narcissistic, "I'm better than you are" politicians do. He thinks he's all that and a bag of chips. In reality, he's nothing more than a bag of s#!t.
If we want another worthless POS president that does nothing more than play the blame-game, then elect this huge brown spot.
Bea McGuire via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If he was so misinformed, then why did he mandate that BOYS should also be vaccinated a few months later? And why is there no mention of THAT mandate?
Bernie Krause
Divinely inspired by the Book of Revelations, we're now faced with a Republican lineup that is the embodiment of an apocalypse of mediocrity.
tommy walnuts
Didnt he say he wants gov. to stay out of the peoples business. Isn't this a parents decision. HMMM, could he be a puppet for big pharma ? This guy is a republican dream. A throw back to Roman times. Sure he creates jobs that pay low and have no benefits. Balance the budget by cutting education and healthcare. Perfect. Keep the masses uneducated and working so hard they cant follow the issues if they wanted to. And a Christian? A christian who is against care for the sick and poor? A christian who would oppose a tax to to treat the sick in favor of jobs?Jobs at any cost even if it means turning nice people like teachers into scapegoats . So like i say, slaves create prosperity for the rich in the name of god.The Roman/Republican way. Why is it a third world country can provide me with the surgery i need for free but my own rich one can not. CNN just did a story on my situation, you can find it at Happierthanabillionaire.com
Kevin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Rodney You got me buddy! We don't have 25% self-proclaimed liberals - it's down to 21%!
"Not only are the Lib-Left seriously outnumbered by the Tea Party, at 41 percent of the population, self-described conservatives outnumber both Tea Party movement supporters and liberals by nearly 2-to-1.
For Obama, there’s no Hope and Change to be seen anywhere in the FACTS presented by latest Gallup polls!"
Kevin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Article in CFP, analyzing Gallup polls: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/39186
Kevin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm sure you'all meant to cover this yourselves in the TT but realized your "Daddy Warbucks" George Soros isn't paying you to tell the truth, right?
Lillian Bradley
Dear Texans, Please review this JAMA article. http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/297/17/1921.full. It is brief and the information about HPV, those viruses responsible for cervical CA and the low frequency are invaluable. Also check this wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry. Further investigate. Rep. Diane White Delisi. Do 30 minutes of checking and reading and you will see the medical industrial complex at work. I found this information just by scratching the surface. You have a Texan there that upon further investigation I could find no such scandalous behavior. Ron Paul. And I have been checking into everything to do with Ron Paul for two years.
Todd Benzkofer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Loser!
jnm butcher99
another politician who makes a promise to a buddy and then later on says it was a mistake at the time but really it was not my fault.
It was ok then but now that it might cost him a few votes it was the wrong decision.
Sorry Texas, but you bought him, you can keep him
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Another lie! I am losing count.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I know MANY Republicans who cannot stand Perry. Are they now liberals?
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What Perry is selling, if Americans are smart, they will reject. Where did all the sane Republicans go??????
luke mizell
Wow, Perry actually got one right. He was right to take this issue on forcefully, and he was right that he could have done it a better way, though I believe that everyone should be vaccinated against every sexually transmitted disease where one is available. Conservatives are outraged of course because it might encourage their kids to have sex. Like the risk of HPV was all that was holding them back. Even the risk of AIDS, incredibly enough, doesn't prevent most teens from having sex. Perry should have run commercials encouraging vaccination, and hopefully enough people would get it to all but eliminate HPV. On the other hand, I have noticed that people who risk there health the most are usually the last to go to a doctor for almost any reason. Maybe Perry was right .
Lillian Bradley
@hoss1066 You are either delusional or a paid plant. http://www.greendivamom.com/2009/02/09/gardasil-death-brain-damage-a-national-tragedy/ AND http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=68454 WANT MORE? http://youtu.be/Kcpoqo_MNis NOT CONVICED? http://youtu.be/R2z6RK2uTWc You seem pretty cavalier with the lives and health of other people's children, whoever you are. Rick Perry is a scourge for participating in, let alone mandating this evil. Do you think the families of these and the other Guardasil victims would say, "Oh, well, Dicky was just a little under informed". No. Quite the contrary. He would have the blood of innocents on his hands if not for your own legislature.
Control Freaks
I'm happy to see that Tricky Dick is having to face up to all of this lying that he has now done about the Gardisil HPV vaccine.
Now I want someone to hold him responsible for allowing Cameron Todd Willingham to die for something that he didn't do.
What kind of person, with the power to have at least allowed the courts to investigate the new science and evidence, would just throw away a life, because some little voice in that fat head of his told him so?
Perry is junk, as in the same descriptive used in, "My Junk". Perry can go polish the ol' purple helmet if this worthless POS EVER thinks that he will have a chance at the presidency, especially after the Kenyan-Born Village Idiot has done all he can do to destroy this country, and LIE TO EVERYONE as Tricky Dick ALREADY HAS DONE!
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Woooooo Kevin Williams comes back w "George Soros" boogyman reference. Hmm, I got RoveNorquistGeorgeWBushCheneyRumfeld on my mind as irrelevant-to-discussion GOP villains I can also reference. But I try to be classier than that, Kev, so I won't.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What Kev, you have to rely on Gallup to feel important? Sad. Sad. Sad.
Joe Ramos
Apologies not withstanding, Rick Perry should be held to answer for the lives he endangered and the permanent injuries incurred by his dictatorial actions.
Do we really need politicians forcing the state to inject our children with dangerous and cancer causing drugs?
If this man is elected good luck to us all.
Laura Watts Kinnison via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Karen--I believe 'sane republican' is now considered an oxymoron. Sarah Palin, Micelle Bachmann, etc., etc.
Rudy Gonzales
Perry has made too many mistakes including the Trans-Texas give-away he spearheaded down to a defeat! The real question is which of his greatest supporters did he have to apologize to?