Posted on 09/02/2011 4:45:05 AM PDT by tobyhill
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who recently underwent an experimental injection of his own adult stem cells to relieve back pain, pushed a bill through the Legislature in June that paves the way for a company co-owned by his doctor to become the first state-approved "bank" to store and cultivate such cells for medical treatment, according to internal emails and corporate records obtained by NBC News.
The measure, which was adopted without any public hearings, could prove a financial bonanza for Celltex Therapeutics Corp. — a Houston company headed by Stanley Jones, the surgeon who injected the cells into Perry, and David G. Eller, the former chairman of the board of Texas A&M University and a longtime political donor to Perry who says he has served as a "strategic" adviser for his presidential run, according to industry officials and scientific researchers who have closely followed the issue.
Perry's role in pushing the stem cell bank bill, at the same time he was receiving injections of stem cells, illustrates two aspects of his record that are drawing increasing attention as he pursues the presidency: his enthusiasm for ideas that are sometimes outside the scientific mainstream and what critics view as his willingness to use the levers of state government to benefit friends and political benefactors.
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Perry's corrupt, and surrounds himself with similarly corrupt people. He's also slightly to the right of Romney but far to the left of Palin.
The truth is out.
I don’t care if a beneficial bill also benefited him.
Isn't it a bit too soon in the campaign for a candidate to already have nothing but canned talking points.
I thought he was sharper with Levin. He was crystal clear on the federal DREAM act (opposes outright, called it amnesty more than once) and expanded on why he continues to support Texas' in-state tuition policy. The rest was pretty routine.
I've noticed talk radio is more combative than in 2000 when W ran. It's probably for the best.
Have you missed Michele Bachmann for the past two months? We have her talking points memorized:
"Titanium spine," "one-term president," "5 children and 23 foster kids," "repeal ObamaCare," "disaffected Democrats, independents, people who've never been political a day in their life", "tax litigation attorney," "college of William & Mary," "education reform" as a state senator, the story of her Republican grandmother being right about who would pay for entitlements ...
There's necessarily going to be a little of it but she's taken it to a new level and it's nearly all biographical.
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