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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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