Rick Perry
More U.S. agents than ever patrol the border
“The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all.”
PolitiFact looked at related issues this summer, concluding that U.S. Border Patrol has “doubled the number of agents since 2004.” Meanwhile, we found it Mostly True that the U.S. has more agents than ever patrolling its borders. Of those more than 20,000 agents in 2010, more than 17,000 worked along the Southwest border, much of which is Texas. No boots, huh?
Rick Perry
A ridiculous claim no matter who says it
“The first round of stimulus … it created zero jobs.”
The White House has posted on its stimulus website a listing of jobs funded by the stimulus, breaking it down by state and congressional district. Just for the quarter April 1 to June 20, 2011, the country had a reported 555,029 full-time equivalent jobs funded by the Recovery Act.
As PolitiFact colleagues at PolitiFact Virginia have pointed out, in a report released March 18, 2011, the president’s Council of Economic Advisers estimated that between 2.5 million and 3.6 million jobs were created or saved by the stimulus through the fourth quarter of 2010.
Rick Perry
Not $2 billion and not from Obama
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.
No evidence of an Obama connection
So far, there’s no evidence to support Perry’s case that Obama delivered the loan guarantee. But is it possible the bank was under White House pressure to act?
That’s not how the place works, said Joseph Grandmaison, an international trade consultant who lives in Rye, N.H. Grandmaison was appointed by Bush to serve on the Ex-Im Bank’s board of directors for seven years, ending his term in July 2009.
Rick Perry
It was False once. Repeating claim sets the PolitiFact meter aflame
Says the state’s Medicaid waiver proposal “has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years.”
Perry’s description of the waiver proposal’s status rang a bell here at PolitiFact Texas. In the spring, PolitiFact rated as False a statement Perry made in an April 15 interview with the Texas Tribune and Newsweek magazine that Texas has been waiting for more than 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.”
Rick Perry
It’s not even a good comeback
Says Bill White is refusing to debate.
If one candidate does not comply with the ground rules set by his opponent, does that mean he is declining to debate? Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Perry’s campaign, said it does: “Bill White’s refusal to release his tax returns is his refusal to debate. The issue is one and the same.”
Still, PolitiFact couldn’t find any instances of White flat-out refusing to debate Perry.
If every debate sponsor statewide required the candidates to release their tax returns and White refused, Perry’s logic would be more reasonable. But this is a precondition that only Perry has set, and, as we recently reported, a term to debate he hasn’t made in the past. Plus, it hasn’t stopped White from debating: on July 5, White joined Kathie Glass, the Libertarian candidate for governor, at the League of Women Voters forum in Kerrville — the first governor’s debate after the primary. Perry was absent.
Rick Perry
Except for that one two weeks ago
“We don’t get a lot of calls from this White House… I have, frankly, never had a call from them.”
Rick Perry
Avoid carbon tax for now, White actually wrote
“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.’ ”
White’s campaign spokeswoman, Katy Bacon, said White referred to the cap-and-trade prospect because the idea was debated during the 2008 election year. In his campaign, Obama committed to creating a cap-and-trade system — a promise that PolitiFact has lately rated “in the works.”
Rick Perry
Reduction by at least 300,000 is not “about the same”
“The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006.”
So where does this leave Perry’s statement?
After we’d visited with officials elsewhere, a Perry aide told us by e-mail Monday that the governor’s statement was “an error.” Perry’s office also sent us a new version of his Friday column that removes the Massachusetts claim while adding one that references Hawaii, which we’re not reviewing in this article.
But Perry’s original column has already been widely circulated on the Internet, making a correction problematic. Perry’s retraction does not change the ridiculous nature of his Massachusetts claim.
Rick Perry
Claim omits El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville and other burgs where most people live
My “border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime.”
Rick Perry
Democrats cast the crucial votes
“Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly.”
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