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Posted on 09/13/2011 12:38:06 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
...It’s a freakingly obvious night and day difference — Perry’s MANDATE on families and the MANDATE on insurers going over the heads of the state legislature versus the Palin administration’s decision to accept federal subsidies to increase access to those who choose to take it. (Note: Gardasil is not and never has been mandated in the state of Alaska.)
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Note: Alaska does not appear on this list. It was never a lobbying target for Merck. Nor did Palin have an ex-chief of staff lobbying for Merck or a staffer’s mother-in-law serving as a 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.
Moreover, Palin is on record in 2008 e-mails expressing her general opposition to certain vaccine mandates.
It’s a pathetic and ill-informed act of desperation to try and turn the crony capitalism charge on Palin, which is a telling measure of how effective her voice is on this topic — and why so many would rather silence her.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Nope. About half the population of San Antonio isn't it?
Of interest!
(((((Ping))))
What is truly sad is how some on this board would argue that his Scouting and Military backgrounds somehow exempt Perry from scrutiny for openly flaunting his disregard for the appearance of impropriety.
Doing business with buddies, accepting trips to bowl games and Europe for himself and his family, appointing employees of contributors to commissions that regulate their industries - Perry’s primary opponents are gonna have a ball with this as will the Dims if Perry gets the nomination.
Perry’s actions may not be illegal given Texas’s lax ethics laws, but they certainly are unethical and corrupt.
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