January 11, 2012 5:00 am by: Emily Donahue
Gov. Rick Perry labeled President Obama a "socialist" in Sunday's NBC News/Facebook debate in New Hampshire. Photo by Ben Philpott/KUT News
Gov. Rick Perry refreshed a charge about President Obama in a debate last weekend. Emily Donahue with KUT News spoke with Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman about Perry’s response when he was asked Sunday whether he agreed with Republican Sen. John McCain that President Obama is a patriot....
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The result of Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican presidential primary election was inconsequential for Texas Governor Rick Perry. Aside from two debate appearances over the past weekend, Perry was willing to write off the Granite State and plead his case to the GOP faithful in South Carolina....
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By Jay Root, Texas Tribune
The American public got to see Gov. Rick Perry’s outreach to religious conservatives at the giant “Prayerpalooza” rally at Reliant Stadium in Houston a few days before he announced for president. A far more private but equally important plea for their support was...
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As Governor Rick Perry rockets to the top of most opinion polls in the GOP race for the White House, what he says and what he's said in the past are coming under closer scrutiny.
KUT's Emily Donahue speaks with Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas at the Austin American-Statesman about two...
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by Emily Ramshaw, Texas Tribune: In the spring of 1999, state Sen. Judith Zaffirini approached then-Lt. Gov. Rick Perry on the chamber floor, wielding a green vote tally card. Zaffirini, a Catholic, anti-abortion Democrat from Laredo, had taken a count, she told Perry, and the Senate was just a...
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Deep in the heart of Texas, home to one of his toughest rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney declared today that:
"I have spent most of my life...
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Even though Governor Rick Perry is preparing for his first two GOP presidential debates in the next two weeks, he set his stump speech aside when speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in San Antonio. The VFW event has been a mainstay on the presidential campaign trail over...
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One of Governor Perry’s largest campaign contributors is hosting a retreat in the Hill Country this weekend for conservative Christian supporters of the GOP presidential candidate. That’s according to Texans for Public Justice, a campaign finance watchdog group.
TPJ says San Antonio...
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As governor Rick Perry rolls out his Presidential campaign, we're beginning to learn more about the unique methods used to make Perry a multiple election winner.
On this week's KUT News/Texas Tribune Tribcast, Ross Ramsey, Reeve Hamilton, Scott Braddock and Ben Philpott review a recently...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry is getting ready to appear in his 1st GOP presidential primary debate. On this week’s KUT/Texas Tribune Tribcast – Evan Smith, Thanh Tan, Reeve Hamilton and Ben Philpott speculate on the governor’s strategy for his 1st test against 7 other GOP hopefuls. And how the...
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via Scott Horsley, NPR
When Texas Gov. Rick Perry was asked about Social Security during a campaign stop in Ottumwa, Iowa, last weekend, he didn't mince words. He suggested that younger workers who are required to pay into the retirement system are the victims of a government swindle.
"We...
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San Antonio found itself at the center of a debate on U.S. foreign policy this week. Tuesday, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention. Romney's speech came just a day after Governor Rick Perry welcomed the same group to town. Both men used...
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By
Frank James, NPR
The
Politico headline was definitely eye-catching: "Is Rick Perry Dumb?"
Twelve years ago if Politico had been around then, it might have asked the...
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Governor Rick Perry has announced he'll participate in two GOP presidential primary debates in September. The governor didn’t debate at all against his Democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White, in the 2010 governor’s race.
So how this debate differ from the ones he has had in...
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Gov. Rick Perry routinely attacks federal health care reform, calling it a massive overreach that intrudes into the lives of every American. But in the presidential contender’s early days on the campaign trail, he has revealed little about what his own “Perrycare” could look like — or how...
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Governor Rick Perry made some waves last week when he said Texas teaches creationism alongside evolution in public schools.
That claim was picked up by the fact checkers at the Austin American-Statesman’s fact checking project, PolitiFact Texas. They rated Perry’s statement "False."
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