Mitt Romney gigs Rick Perry’s tuition offer to illegal immigrants
Romney’s blast at Perry’s Texas: "Four years of college, almost $100,000 discount if you are an illegal alien (and) go to the University of Texas."
We checked his analysis.
Romney’s blast at Perry’s Texas: "Four years of college, almost $100,000 discount if you are an illegal alien (and) go to the University of Texas."
We checked his analysis.
Separate claims about Texas taxes and spending by Ron Paul and a group backing Michele Bachmann for president caught fire on the Truth-O-Meter.
Republican presidential candidates debate a third time in 22 days tonight.
We’ll watch for fresh claims, including jabs at front-running Texas Gov. Rick Perry, mindful that the last debates fed several fact checks.
Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul let rip with a specific tabulation of U.S. military involvement in last week’s Republican presidential debate: "We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world."
He was mostly right.
A group backing U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota for president says spending in Texas has doubled under Rick Perry. We found the methodology behind this conclusion flawed.
A pro-Bachmann group says government spending in Texas has doubled under Rick Perry. PolitiFact Texas checks the numbers and puts the claim to the Truth-O-Meter.
The latest Republican presidential debates gave candidates opportunities to poke at the front-runner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry. PolitiFact has since caught up to some blows with fact checks.
It's been repeated so often it's now legend: Rick Perry chaired Al Gore's 1988 campaign in Texas. It began as an unfounded claim by a Democrat and went unchallenged by Perry. We dig into the claim, find he was a supporter but not chairman, and correct our mistakes.
It’s a legend of Texas politics and, of late, a hatchet for foes of Gov. Rick Perry. The story goes that as a Democratic legislator, Perry chaired Democrat Al Gore’s presidential campaign in Texas.
The legend has been aired routinely for more than 13 years—all but unchallenged by Perry. PolitiFact Texas even repeated the story as fact. Well, scotch that.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry told reporters Monday that Texas will seek a federal disaster declaration for the wildfires ravaging parts of the state.
Earlier this year, we fact-checked contrasting claims about the state’s request for such a declaration in the wake of other fires.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, stumping for president, has revived his description of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, a claim we rated False last year. It seems timely to share fresh reader missives per our judgment.
According to an Aug. 28, 2011, Houston Chronicle news report, Gov. Rick Perry isn’t backing off his latest book.
Good to know; "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington" just helped us complete a fact check of Bloomberg pundit Margaret Carlson’s claim about Perry’s stances on Social Security, Medicaid and the federal income tax.