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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 a house party in New Hampshire
Says that when President Obama visited El Paso, he "pronounced that the border with Mexico and the United States was safer than it ever was in history."
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • September 2, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 a speech at a house party in New Hampshire.
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.
Pants on Fire!
By Gregory Trotter • September 1, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 a campaign video on his website
Says the national debt and President Barack Obama's "refusal to control spending led to our nation's credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 30, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 14, 2011
Says his hometown of Paint Creek, Texas, "doesn’t even have a ZIP code."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 27, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a speech at "Politics and Eggs" in Bedford, N.H.
Says Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a campaign stop in New Hampshire
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 18, 2011 remarks during a campaign stop in New Hampshire
"In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • August 19, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 15, 2011 a speech.
Says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver’s licenses even if they’re just crossing a single public road.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 16, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 24, 2011 an interview.
Says Texas has "the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 6, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 29, 2011 a press release
Says legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 11, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 12, 2011 a speech in Los Angeles
Says President Barack Obama’s overturning of the Mexico City Policy means federal tax dollars can be used "to fund abortion all over the world."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 1, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 18, 2011 a speech.
Says the 2012-13 state budget "leaves $6 billion in a rainy day fund."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 14, 2011 a cameo interview.
"Since June 2009, about 48 percent of all the jobs created in America were in Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 7, 2011 a comment to reporters.
Says the state’s budget shortfall is "not that much different" than it was in 2003.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 9, 2011 a comment to reporters.
Says a "rather extraordinary amount of non-classroom employees" were added by Texas school districts over the last decade.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 21, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 14, 2011 a conference call.
Says the state’s rainy day fund is "our insurance policy against a major natural disaster."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 18, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 2, 2011 an interview.
Says neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon "have been on the border to see what's happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 8, 2011 his State of the State address.
Says the state share of Texas public education spending increased 82 percent over the past decade, reaching $20 billion in 2009.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 3, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 2, 2010 a book
Says some in Congress are trying "to create a separate government for those with a drop of Native Hawaiian blood."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 20, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 8, 2011 a speech
"Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state."
True
February 15, 2011
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