White’s three-piece dart: Debt, spending, shortfall, all on Perry
June 21, 2010
What keeps Gov. Rick Perry from committing to debate Democratic challenger Bill White? That's none of PolitiFact's business, actually.
Yet we were struck by a White shot at Perry tucked into an Austin American-Statesman editorial published Monday. Perry, White said, "doesn’t want to talk about how he’s nearly doubled state spending, doubled state debt and how Texas is facing an $18 billion shortfall."
We can't judge if Perry doesn't want to chat about all that. But...