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You see thats my problem with it. He made that decision without ever taking it to the legislature.

Shows he has a problem with the process.

He also was one of the Governors to oppose Jan Brewer’s immigration law.

Gov. Perry has explained that the EO (which was done so patients' insurance would help pay for it, and which the TX legislature had put under the governor's pervue -- vaccines were also easier to opt-out of from earlier years ) was the wrong way to go. That if it was to happen again, that the Legislature would be the place for it to originate and proceed, regardless of what powers the Legislature gave the governor in regards to this in the past. The Legislature voted to put aside Perry's EO and he left it there. This is not a flip-flop. No matter how much you wish it were.

…….”The Gardasil vaccine was recommended the FDA’s vaccine approval committee, more than 6 months before Governor Perry’s Executive Order. All girls who qualified for the Federal Vaccines for Children program were eligible to receive the vaccine free of charge: Medicaid, CHIPs, and uninsured or those with insurance that won’t pay for vaccines. The Texas Legislature had previously delegated unconditional authority to mandate new vaccines to the Department of State Health Services, which is under Governor Perry and the Executive Branch.” Source

That's the problem----he made the Gardidil decision without ever taking it to the legislature. Shows he has a problem with the process.

Apparently, he went that route b/c he wanted to hasten the process to get his hands on the Merck donations.

He also was one of the Governors to oppose Jan Brewer’s immigration law.

Was also for and against fences.

Said his letter endorsing TARP meant something else.

Promised Texans he would not run for president if they reelected him (AT THE SAME TIME he raised $55Mill for 2012).

Had a business deal with Rooty Giuliani to use eminent domain to take land from Texans to give to a Spanish company (Rooty's law client). All stood to profit mightily off the Texas land grab.

July 14, 2010: Florida, Texas Support Arizona's Immigration Law

”Florida, Texas and seven other states filed a brief supporting Arizona's immigration law aimed at cracking down on illegal migrants after the U.S. government sued to block enforcement of the law.

Arizona's statute doesn't establish an immigration policy that would interfere with federal law, countering the U.S. argument, the states said in the filing today in federal court in Phoenix. The law isn't an "obstacle" to Congress' objectives, the states wrote. .........

The states, in their filing, asked U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton to reject the U.S. injunction request. Bolton scheduled a hearing in the case for July 22.

Representatives of the U.S. Justice Department didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.

The Arizona law makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally. The statute requires local police officers who come in contact with someone for law enforcement reasons to check the individual's immigration status if they suspect the person lacks proper documentation.

Alabama, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Virginia, plus the territory of the Mariana Islands, also joined in today's brief supporting Arizona...." [end excerpt]

You see thats my problem with it. He made that decision without ever taking it to the legislature.

Shows he has a problem with the process.

Rick has a history of this going back to his days as the state's Ag Commissioner. He's pretty loose making highly questionable loans with other people's money, got his hand slapped, but kept doing it anyway via other means. The state comptroller is still trying to clean up that financial mess. Same behavior concerning TTC, his own "private" slush fund to subsidize jobs and his dirty little secret called the Franchise Tax designed as a work around to gain revenues that a state income tax could bring if he thought he could sell it to Texans (no dice).