Two key facts on Perry's Gardasil mandate

Governor Perry, by executive order, required all girls to get vaccinated against HPV, or get . He got beat up for that in the debate a bit earlier. A lot of the discussion involved parental rights. I wanted to emphasize two points.

1) It looks like a dirty example of crony capitalism and the revolving door. Perry’s former chief of staff, Mike Toomey, was a lobbyist for Merck, the manufacturer of that vaccine. Merck pushed hard for the mandate and stood to profit from it.