I think this opens up a hole for Michele Bachmann to climb back into the race. The media is trying hard to portray the run for the GOP nod as a two man race between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
Don’t count out Bachmann!
Daily Mail
It’s been a crucial topic hanging over the Republican presidential debate so far - and there’s already a twist.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, 61, claimed on Thursday night he was ‘lobbied’ by a cervical cancer sufferer to require young girls to receive the HPV vaccine.
But it turns out according to ABC News he only met Heather Burcham after launching an executive order in February 2007 - which ultimately failed.
Mr Perry and Houston schoolteacher Ms Burcham, 31, became unlikely friends over his support of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
He said at Thursday night’s GOP debate that he spent lots of time with Ms Burcham, who had stage four cervical cancer and died in July 2007.
‘I got lobbied on this issue. I got lobbied by a 31-year-old young lady who had stage four cervical cancer,’ Mr Perry said, reported ABC News.
But since she died he changed his mind on the HPV vaccine and sided against it with GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann.
‘I readily admitted we should have had an opt-in but I don’t know what part of opt out most parents don’t get,’ he said at the Florida debate.
‘The fact is I erred on the side of life and I will always err on the side of life as a Governor (and) as a President of the United States.’
Ms Burcham was reportedly actually lobbying the Texas legislature to uphold Governor Perry’s order after he had issued it - rather than before.
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This is not good news for Texas Gov Rick Perry. Whoever are his advisors are doing a terrible job.
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