Why Rick Perry Can Never Be President. Never. Listen to Me. I’m Serious.
In 2007, Texas voter overwhelmingly approved the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. It’s the same sad story of a public trust and money being used to make friends of Rick Perry very wealthy.
The long and agonizing back story is that Rick Perry’s friends got grants from the fund without having their request properly vetted. And there has been no positive results from those funds. And Texas newspapers have been going wild researching where the damn money is going and who is getting it. This ain’t pocket change. This is $3 billion, with a b, that Perry amusingly calls “an assault on cancer.”
The whole thing is a disgrace, and cancer is laughing.
Texas legislators used the noblest of language to tout the 2007 bill that created the state’s taxpayer-funded, $3 billion assault on cancer, but Gov. Rick Perry now says creating wealth is a key mission of the cancer agency.
In an interview with the Houston Chronicle this week, Perry said the embattled Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas must regain public trust so it can carry out its dual mission of cure discovery and commercialization.
“The way that the Legislature intended it was to get cures into the public’s arena as soon as possible and at the same time create economic avenues (from) which wealth can be created,” said Perry. “Basic research takes a long time and may or may not ever create wealth.”
So now Governor Perry says that the purpose of the fund is to create wealth. You know, because pharmaceutical companies ain’t making enough money by ripping off sick people enough already.
Texas Democrat Craig Eiland ain’t buying the create wealth thing.
“I believe that the purpose of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas was to research and develop cures and treatments for cancer, not act as an investment bank or hedge fund to ‘create wealth,'” said Eiland. “The state has the Emerging Technology Fund and the Enterprise Fund as business development tools.”
I mean, hellfire, why didn’t we just give Rick Perry $3 billion, with a b, to hand out to his friends and not tease with the whole false hope about curing cancer thing.
Rick Perry is evil, y’all. He’s right out of a Stephen King novel.
It’s cancer, Rick, and you know how karma is a bitch.
Maybe we all oughta pay for a billboard quoting Craig Eiland, at the same time sending a stack of letters or faxes saying Honey, in the hands of Perry EVERYTHING is about making money. Period. Support Eiland. I guess.
1Just so you know, the rest of America is “on” to the threat of a Rick Perry presidency. The last idiot you folks sent us from Austin pretty much pooped in the well as far as our tolerance of Texas politicians goes… Dubya broke the mold.
“OOPS!” Perry is history to most of us, but just in case, please restrict his out of state movements if at all possible.
This story reeks, and it deserves far more press than it’s getting outside of the Lone Star State.
2Not that I would truly wish cancer on another…but if Karma chose such a path for him, make it cancer of the hair.
3Star,
4It certainly couldn’t be brain cancer.
Rick Perry is REPULSIVE!
This is what cancer is about:
Be a hero – $$$ required – CRO toxicology, IND, clinical trials. pic.twitter.com/yaT4Pmte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuwLaMK17A …
… http://cancercure-d.blogspot.com/2012/03/differentiation.html …
5[P]Rick Perry is absolutely, definitely, totally, unequivocally, unqualifiedly, unquestionably, without any doubt whatsoever one despicable, vile, detestable, sorry, (you may insert the most creative expletives of your choice here) excuse of a human being.
Get back to me [P]Rick after you’ve buried your 51 year-old sister, or 33 year-old nephew, or 74 year-old father, all of whom died of cancer.
6I’m trying not to puke on my keyboard.
I have no words to describe what a totally despicable poor excuse for a human being this man is.
7Addditionally, in order to read anything the newspaper may have discovered about this scam….. you have to be a “digital subscriber”.
Well, hell, I can hardly stomach The Houston Chronicle for free.
I’m darned sure not going to pay to read it on-line.
Hopefully the story will be picked up and widely disseminated….. so the whole country will know what a a** hole The Governor is.
Somebody is disbursing those funds, and knows to whom, and for what purpose they go.
8Ricky-Pie was re-elected for an unprecedented third full term as Governor with 60% of the vote, because the electorate of Texas consists of a whole lot of idiots who walk into their voting booth and vote a straight Republican ticket. They vote based on the same ole knee-jerk BS year in and year out…. guns, God, gays, and abortion…. drill baby drill… and taxes. I was disgusted in 2010, and am more so today.
9So, cancer is a money making proposition in Texas. How sad, profiting off others sickness, sorry and misery.
And the other for- profit, Cancer Treatment Center of America, owner is a rabid republican.
10It probably didn’t hurt his re-election chances any that the warehouse that contained all of the voting machines for Harris County (Houston – and heavy Bill White support) burned down a month or two before the election. Therefore making it a scramble to borrow machines from other areas for voting.
11I have never spit on anyone in my entire almost 6 decade life. For me, spitting is the worst insult you can show to someone. But, in my mind I spit on (P) Rick Perry. Once for my mother, who died of breast cancer, once for me – a 10 year survivor, and twice more for all the people who must face this awful diagnosis.
12Miemaw:
If you have a line from a story (Juanita is always so nice to give a direct quote) you can put that line in the search box of Google (or any other search engine). In this particular story: Texas legislators used the noblest of language to tout the 2007 bill. It will give you the complete story without having to sign in. This works for all sorts of newspapers.
13Anyone who tries to take all the money from planned parent hood and open his own little medi clinic which can be controlled does not deserve to be governor must less president of the USA.
14SORRY RICK just the way I feel
This is just sick.
15@buskyandme
They have a website. They have already “disbursed” about $840 million dollars in grants.
I would just like to know where the money went.
I think they owe it to us all…… to tell us.
JMHO
16The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas should at the minimum, be renamed The Cancer Placebo Institute of Texas. When you read stories like this it’s pretty clear Rick Perry himself is just a placebo governor. He’s called governor, but the false hope he gives voters that someone is actually in charge, is worse than nothing.
17I can’t add anything, but I second everything everyone else said here. Thanks, now all I have to do is go puke.
18GRRRRRRRRR!
19Icky is only worth about 1/2 a cent, but rakes in the cash.
20Maybe if we pointed out to people of color that they are in the majority in the state of Texas. Then the 10% whites who are liberal in this state could join with them.
As of 2011:
38.1% of Texans are Hispanic or Latino
12.2% of Texans are black
1.7% are two or more races
10% (my guess) are liberal
By my third grade math that’s 62%. Will someone please tell them!
21I’ve read that “creating wealth” statement several times, with my brain trying to make sense of it, as if it had been said by a rational person, and it just can’t. I am left flabbergasted and sickened.
This is what people vote for?
22Since “creating wealth” is such a catchy phrase for Gov. Perry, perhaps some enterprising U.S. Attorney in Texas can put another catchy phrase to use – “follow the money.” Who knows what that might catch?
23OK, I knew that bunch was doing lousy science (that’s been in various science journals/med journals for over a year) but not about the money laundering (which is what I call it when the tax money for your buddies goes through a supposedly useful organization on its way to their pockets.)
What a disgusting pile of rotted weasel dung.
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