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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 18, 2011 an online video
"Our president has labeled Americans as soft."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 1, 2011 a forum in Hampton, N.H.
"We cut property taxes by one-third in the state of Texas while I’ve been governor."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • October 21, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 11, 2011 a tweet.
"Romneycare was model for Obamacare."
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 21, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 10, 2011 a campaign ad
"Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 14, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 11, 2011 Republican presidential primary debate
Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan.
True
By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 30, 2011 a speech
Coca-Cola’s CEO "said he finds it easier to do work in China than in the United States."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • October 10, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 30, 2011 a speech
"My home state since June of 2009 created 40 percent of the new jobs in America."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • October 4, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 29, 2011 a television interview
Says the private sector in Texas created 1 million jobs over the past decade.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 30, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 28, 2011 an interview
Says only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving in-state tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 28, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando
Says that Romney touted the Massachusetts health plan for the nation in his hardcover book but then deleted it for the paperback edition.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando.
Says he "got lobbied" by a woman with late-stage cancer about vaccinating Texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando
Says he never said he wanted to move Social Security "back to the states."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando
"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.
Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 16, 2011 answer to questions.
Says he did not support the October 2008 legislation to rescue Wall Street firms.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 21, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 the CNN/Tea Party Express debate
"The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • September 13, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 7, 2011 a Republican presidential debate.
"When you look at what we have done over the last decade, we created 1 million jobs in the state of Texas. At the same time, (the rest of) America lost 2.5 million."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 11, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 7, 2011 a debate at the Reagan Library
"Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster" than Mitt Romney.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 30, 2011 a radio interview
"I became a Republican sooner in my life than" Ronald Reagan did in his.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 6, 2011
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