As Rick Perry has started his campaign, the many dramas of his tenure as governor in my state have been replayed in my mind. In fact, my father and I have been saying things to each other like: "I forgot he did that." I guess that speaks to the sad fact that the governor has been in office so long. So the HPV controversy that reared its head in the last debate (NBC Nightly News has led tonight's newscast with a story about the virus as I write this) brought back the year of 2007 when my daughter was a sixth grader and Perry came out with his executive order mandating that all sixth grade girls get the vaccine. Most of the left wing posts I have seen about the issue have actually leaned towards defending the governor saying that his order was the one good action he has taken. I have commented on some of those posts, but I think a longer narrative of my experience may help illuminate this issue in a different light.
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