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Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 14, 2019 a speech:
"The U.S. now leads the world in producing both oil and natural gas, and at the same time reducing energy-related emissions."
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 27, 2019
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 a White House briefing:
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview:
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
False
By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2016 Radio interview:
"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."
True
By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 2, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
Says Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 2, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president:
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."
Mostly False
By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech at the National Press Club:
"Texas’ high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his declaration for president:
"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president:
"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 7, 2015 a visit to Deerfield, NH:
"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • June 5, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 a speech in Iowa:
"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 5, 2015 an oped column:
On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.
Full Flop
By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune:
On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.
Half Flip
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech:
"Thomas Paine wrote that ‘the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.’"
False
By Sean Gorman • March 9, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 a web ad:
"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."
Half-True
By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech.:
"America produces more oil and gas than any other nation in the world."
True
By Sean Gorman • March 2, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 a statement:
"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."
False
By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.:
"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2015 valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature:
Texas has "the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968" because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 3, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 26, 2015 a breakfast talk in Iowa:
The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2015
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Latest Fact-Checks About Rick Perry

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech:
"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."
Mostly True
By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015
Texas Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Party
stated on February 12, 2015 a press release:
More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to "partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 an email blast:
"College tuition rates in Texas jumped by 55% since 2003."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 an email blast:
Since Rick Perry became governor, "poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% — which is higher than the national average."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on May 29, 2014 an email blast:
Rick Perry doesn’t think there should be a federal minimum wage.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 2014
Democratic Governors Association
Democratic Governors Association
stated on October 24, 2013 an email blast:
"Texas Governor Rick Perry’s voter ID law is a blatant effort to defeat Wendy Davis by disenfranchising tens of thousands of women voters."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 31, 2013
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”:
40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • October 17, 2013
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on September 18, 2013 an episode of CNN's "Crossfire":
"One out of 10 minimum-wage workers in the U.S. live in Texas."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2013
John Currie
John Currie
stated on September 9, 2013 a guest blog post:
Unemployment in Texas has risen over two percentage points with Rick Perry as governor.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 17, 2013
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 27, 2013 a radio advertisement:
Says that "unlike Texas, Missouri has a perfect AAA credit rating."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 30, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 13, 2013 a fake Rick Perry 2016 poster.:
"Texas ranks: #1 in worker deaths, #1 carbon emissions, #50 in high school graduates, #50 in funding for mental health patients."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2013
Fix Austin Schools
Fix Austin Schools
stated on May 4, 2013 a leaflet.:
Says that under Rick Perry’s plan, "Texas has cut funding for public schools by 25%."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2013
Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman
stated on April 25, 2013 a column on an editorial cartoon.:
Says the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,"had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 1, 2013
Nelson Wolff
Nelson Wolff
stated on April 1, 2013 a Texas Capitol press conference.:
Says uncompensated health care costs absorbed by Texas hospitals are adding $1,800 a year to Texas private insurance rates.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2013
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
stated on February 6, 2013 an editorial.:
Says Texas ranks first in executions among the states.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 8, 2013
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
stated on February 6, 2013 an editorial.:
Says Texas ranks last in the percentage of residents with high school diplomas.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 8, 2013
Joseph
Joseph "Joe" Deshotel
stated on November 13, 2012 a press release.:
"There is no evidence that poor people abuse drugs more frequently than any other socio-economic group."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 26, 2012
Kinky Friedman
Kinky Friedman
stated on August 1, 2012:
Says Texas is 1st in business climate, 49th in education.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • August 17, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on June 8, 2012 his speech at the Texas Democratic Party State Convention in Houston:
Says cuts by Gov. Rick Perry's administration left "12,000 teachers without a job."
Half-True
By Sue Owen • July 6, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 11, 2012 comment to reporters.:
Rick Santorum says Rick Perry requested 1,200 earmarks as governor of Texas.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Glueck • January 20, 2012
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