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    For Immediate Release: July 20, 2010 Contact: Cliff Walker (512) 945-5956 press@backtobasicspac.org New Ad by Back to Basics PAC Details the Scandal Surrounding Perry¶s Controversial Vaccination Mandate (Austin, Texas) ± Today, Back to Basics PAC began airing a new, hard-hitting television commercial in media markets, both urban and rural, throughout the state. Perry¶s Rejected Executive Order Mandated Inoculation of All 6th Grade Girls The commercial detailshow Governor Rick Perry put the fi

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    For Immediate Release: July 20, 2010 Contact: Cliff Walker (512) 945-5956 press@backtobasicspac.org New Ad by Back to Basics PAC Details the Scandal Surrounding Perry¶s Controversial Vaccination Mandate (Austin, Texas) ± Today, Back to Basics PAC began airing a new, hard-hitting television commercial in media markets, both urban and rural, throughout the state. Perry¶s Rejected Executive Order Mandated Inoculation of All 6th Grade Girls The commercial detailshow Governor Rick Perry put the fi

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    For Immediate Release: July 20, 2010

    Contact: Cliff Walker


    (512) 945-5956
    press@backtobasicspac.org

    New Ad by Back to Basics PAC Details the Scandal


    Surrounding Perry’s Controversial Vaccination Mandate
    Perry’s Rejected Executive Order Mandated Inoculation of All 6th Grade Girls

    (Austin, Texas) – Today, Back to Basics PAC began airing a new, hard-hitting television
    commercial in media markets, both urban and rural, throughout the state.

    The commercial details how Governor Rick Perry put the financial considerations of his “big
    business special interest cronies” before the rights of Texas parents and the wellbeing of Texas
    children. It does so by drawing a clear financial connection between a drug giant Merck & Co.
    (maker of the dangerous and withdrawn drug, Vioxx), top Austin lobbyist Mike Toomey, and
    Rick Perry’s own campaign.

    Perry’s campaign received a campaign contribution from the drug giant, Merck & Co., which
    manufactures a controversial drug named Gardisil, a vaccine against the sexually-transmitted
    disease known as Human Papillomavirus (HPV), on the same day his top aide participated in a
    briefing about the drug.

    Additionally, Mike Toomey, a former Perry chief of staff-turned-millionaire lobbyist, was paid
    anywhere from $260,000 to $525,000 by Merck to lobby his former boss and key conservative
    legislators.

    Although a major independent review of the drug had not been completed, late on the Friday
    afternoon before Super Bowl Sunday, without any input from parents or legislators, Perry rushed
    Executive Order-RP65, which mandates “vaccination of all female children for HPV prior to
    admission to the sixth grade.”

    Parents were outraged, so the Legislature checked Perry’s power and overturned his unilateral
    mandate, which would have added nearly $300 million to Perry’s $18 billion present-day budget
    shortfall. Since the rejection of Perry’s mandate, the drug has been associated with a number of
    serious adverse events following its use.

    A fully sourced dossier outlining Perry’s HPV scandal is available for review at
    www.BackToBasicsPAC.org/HPV.

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