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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 26, 2010 a press release
On debating.
Full Flop
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 24, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 13, 2010 an interview with CNBC
"We have more kids take the SAT than any other state in the nation. I mean a high percentage of our kids take the SAT."
Mostly False
July 22, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 13, 2010 an interview
"We don't get a lot of calls from this White House… I have, frankly, never had a call from them."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 15, 2010 a press release
Since 2000, "the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 16, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2010 an interview
Says an estimate that Texas will face an $18 billion budget gap is "a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 10, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 19, 2010 a speech
"My opponent in November of 2008 sent a missive to the White House, to President Obama-elect, and said, 'Here's how you need to sell cap-and-trade to the American people.' "
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 3, 2010 a Web video
"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted on a $60 million loan."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 16, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 3, 2010 a Web ad
"The city of Houston now has more debt per capita than California."
Half-True
May 14, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 6, 2010 a press release
"The percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent, or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent, is 90 percent."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 9, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 4, 2010 remarks to Texas reporters
"If you will go look up the definition of 'act of God,' we've used it in legal terms for a long time in this state."
True
May 6, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek
Says in 2003 Texas cut "$10 billion out of the entire budget, yet we put $1.8 billion more into public education. We put $800 million more into health and human services."
Mostly False
May 5, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview
Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to "create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 1, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek
"We've got a 1,000 National Guard troop request that's been in front of this president for over a year and no response."
Half-True
April 29, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek
"Everyone in this country has access to health care."
Mostly False
April 27, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview
Says he said last year there's "absolutely no reason" for Texas to secede.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview.
"We had a press conference here that interestingly no one in the mainstream media covered."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 20, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 2, 2010 a column
"The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006."
Pants on Fire!
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 5, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 26, 2010 a press release
"This week liberal Bill White faced an ethics complaint about more than $83,000 he failed to report to the state Ethics Commission."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 31, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 10, 2010 a Web post
My "border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime."
Pants on Fire!
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • March 16, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 3, 2010 a Web ad
Texas is the "fastest growing state" with the "most Fortune 500 companies."
Half-True
March 8, 2010
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