Fact-checking Rick Perry’s presidential run
By W. Gardner Selby
Published on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 10:16 a.m.
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Says Rick Santorum voted for the Bridge to Nowhere.
Rick Perry, Monday, January 2nd, 2012.
Ruling: Mostly True | Details
On instances when abortions should be allowed.
Rick Perry, Tuesday, December 27th, 2011.
Ruling: Half Flip | Details
Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.
Make Us Great Again, Wednesday, December 21st, 2011.
Ruling: True | Details
Says Mitt Romney raised business taxes 20 percent in Massachusetts.
Rick Perry, Thursday, December 15th, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly True | Details
A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney.
Rick Perry, Saturday, December 10th, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly False | Details
Says Texas did not bail out a loan program he oversaw as state agriculture commissioner.
Rick Perry, Thursday, December 15th, 2011.
Ruling: Pants on Fire! | Details
Says the Obama administration catches and releases nonviolent illegal immigrants.
Rick Perry, Saturday, December 10th, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
Our "kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school."
Rick Perry, Wednesday, December 7th, 2011.
Ruling: False | Details
"A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family."
Rick Perry, Wednesday, November 16th, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly True | Details
"When you sanction the Iranian central bank, that will shut down (Iran's) economy."
Rick Perry, Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
"I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams."
Rick Perry, Saturday, October 1st, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly False | Details
Says President Barack Obama thinks Americans are lazy.
Rick Perry, Wednesday, November 16th, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly False | Details
"We cut a record $15 billion from our state budget."
Rick Perry, Monday, October 31st, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support Rick Perry’s "decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."
Mitt Romney, Thursday, September 29th, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly False | Details
Says that under his tax plan, "no matter where you are in the stratosphere, you're going to be getting a tax cut."
Rick Perry, Tuesday, October 25th, 2011.
Ruling: False | Details
Says Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on abortion rights.
Rick Perry, Sunday, October 30th, 2011.
Ruling: True | Details
Says "tanking" Rick Perry’s federal tax plan has "huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else."
Rachel Maddow, Tuesday, October 25th, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly False | Details
Says that "we brought CHI Manufacturing, that had business in China, back to" Texas.
Rick Perry, Tuesday, October 11th, 2011.
Ruling: Mostly False | Details
Says Rick Perry wrote a newspaper item saying he was "open to amnesty" for illegal immigrants in the United States.
Mitt Romney, Tuesday, October 18th, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
Says Texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the jobless rate during Rick Perry's governorship. Also, the Texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during Barack Obama's presidency.
Mitt Romney, Wednesday, October 26th, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
"In Texas, we created over 1 million new jobs while the rest of the nation lost over 2 million."
Rick Perry, Wednesday, October 26th, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
"Our president has labeled Americans as soft."
Rick Perry, Tuesday, October 18th, 2011.
Ruling: Half-True | Details
"Romneycare was model for Obamacare."
Rick Perry, Tuesday, October 11th, 2011.
Ruling: True | Details
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Anita Perry joined Rick Perry stumping in August (AP photo).
From the start of his run for president last summer, Texas Gov. Rick Perry lofted multiple claims drawing our fact-checks — including our early rating of his 2010 promise not to run for president as Broken.
Political foes similarly made interesting statements regarding Perry, who has nearly three years remaining in his latest gubernatorial term.
To the right, we’ve compiled many of our Truth-O-Meter articles on, or related to, Perry’s quest. For all Rick Perry fact-checks, click here.
Perry suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Jan. 19, 2012, throwing his support to Newt Gingrich.
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Researchers: Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby
Names in this article: Rick Perry
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