Texas Gov. Rick Perry, leading the field for the Republican presidential nomination in a recent Gallup poll, recently dispatched a fund-raising letter touching on some claims we’ve reviewed — including the PolitiFact National 2010 Lie of the Year.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been saying the government wants to require farmers to have a commercial drivers license before they can drive a farm tractor across a road. PolitiFact Texas checked it out and rated it False.
No one in Texas has faced the Truth-O-Meter more than Rick Perry, who's gotten more True ratings than anyone else in the state -- 10 -- while also leading in False (14) and Pants on Fire ratings (7).
The just-declared presidential hopeful has generally fared well on our other meter, the Perry-O-Meter, which rates the fulfillment of campaign promises, though given his speech in South Carolina today we're also marking as a Promise Broken his repeated vow not to run for president.
In a Texas speech, expected presidential candidate Rick Perry accurately pegged a claim about recent job growth in Texas while touching on claims we’ve previously found incomplete.
Meanwhile, an Iowa group’s pro-Perry TV ad, posted to the right, offers an untested take on the job-gains topic.
Tom Leppert, the former Dallas mayor running for the U.S. Senate, wasn’t impressed with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s joining the 2012 field of candidates. Leppert reacted to Dewhurst’s declaration by deriding him as a "career politician."
That descriptive of Dewhurst also has been levelled by a U.S. senator who’s backing another Republican running for the Texas seat.
Texas U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess says you won’t be able to buy traditional 100-watt light bulbs next year. That claim drew our inaugural rating of Mostly False, which this week replaced Barely True on the Truth-O-Meter.
Starting today, PolitiFact’s Barely True rating for significantly flawed statements by political figures is history. In its place, we’re introducing Mostly False, meaning that a claim contains some element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Ah, Washington: The U.S. House speaker posts a message on Twitter, then a campaign committee e-mails a barrage of press releases, each one tweaked to target different individual members of Congress, including two Texas Democrats.
Before the day passes, the lieutenant governor of Texas airs the same flawed claim about how much each job attributed to the 2009 federal stimulus package ended up costing the federal government.
Although backlogged claims have grown, Gov. Rick Perry’s efforts helped push 16,771 requests for benefits from Texans to the federal Department of Veterans Affairs.
We can’t flee the Texas heat so we tried a PolitiFact alternative by peeking at some fellow state sites for potentially cooling fact checks — like a Georgia review of a claim that taking away football encourages crime.
Join us as we scoot around ...
New to the Perry-O-Meter: We rate how the governor’s pledges on taxes and tuition fared during the 2011 legislative session.