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Would be secessionist Texas Governor Rick Perry has stood against hardworking Texan families for the past 10 years. From the murder of an innocent man, to extremely high homeowner and health care insurance rates; skyrocketing college tuition, fiscal mismanagement and forcing eminent domain to grab Texans’ land, puts Perry as the worst Republican to lead this country.  His hard-fisted, overbearing arrogance can be seen in what Perry has actually DONE, not in the political hyperbolic words he speaks. Think Rick’s actions won’t impact you, your family, your children, and your parents; think again, Rick Perry’s record speaks volumes in what taxpaying American families can look forward to.

Military:

• Rick Perry, in May 2011, signed legislation restricting military veterans from voting.  Perry’s Voter ID law prohibits veterans from using their ID card from the Department of Veterans Affairs to vote, even though it is a government-issued photo ID. As a result, veterans are showing up to the polls and being turned away.  (Source: Vet Voice)

Insurance and Home Ownership:

• Perry permitted the insurance industry to double overnight the premiums paid by Texas homeowners and refused to rein in exorbitant rates from his biggest campaign contributors. (Source: Mcblogger.com)  Texans now pay the highest homeowner insurance rates in the nation, an average annual premium of $1,409 per year, and nearly twice the national average of $804. (Source: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
• A February 2009 survey showed that 85% of Texans supported regulation of the insurance industry, Rick Perry and Texas Republicans fought insurance reform efforts during the 2009 legislative session. (Source: Hill Research Consultants)
• The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, run by Perry’s hand-picked political appointees, has still, four years after Hurricane Rita, only distributed one-third of the reimbursements that Texas homeowners along the coast are due. (Source: Houston Chronicle)
• March 2009 Rick Perry rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would have expanded unemployment benefits for Texans during Bush’s financial collapse.  Perry secretly reversed his decision and asked the federal government for a $170 million loan with interest, so that benefits could get paid. (Source: Think Progress)
• Texas ranks near the bottom in the rate of home ownership, a fact that is exacerbated by our low personal credit scores, and high rate of subprime mortgages. (Source: CFED, CreditReport.com, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Taxes:

• Perry did not want to provide help to 45,000 out-of-work Texans including part-time employees like single mothers, college students and senior citizens.  It would have avoided the unemployment insurance tax hike for all Texas businesses. Perry already increased taxes on businesses in February 2009 when he replaced the Franchise tax with the Margin tax, the first corporate income tax in the history of Texas. The Margin Tax is an income tax on corporations. (Source: OpEdNews-John-Basel)
• Rick Perry claims that he has a “track record” of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.  (Source: PolitiFactTexas)
  August 2011, Rick Perry would reduce the Corporate Tax Rate from 35% to ZERO, forcing taxpaying families to make up the shortfall in the U.S. Treasury while Wall Street Corporation pay no federal taxes.  (Source:  Addicting Info)
• August 14, 2011, Rick Perry said he would increase taxes on retirees and the disabled. (Source: Think Progress)

Energy:

• Every time Texans turn on the lights they pay the price as Texas homeowners struggle to pay the highest utility rates in the nation due to Rick Perry’s failed experiment with utility deregulation.  Texans’ utility rates skyrocketed 64% between 1999 and 2007, families in Houston and Dallas pay the highest utility rates in the entire nation. (Source: Associated Press, Dallas Morning News)  The Public Utility Commission, handpicked by Perry, failed to protect Texas consumers..
• · Utility deregulation has given rise to prepaid electric providers. These providers are sometimes run by convicted criminals who market to “poor, sick, and disabled” Texans and charge consumers rates up to 50% higher than average. (Source: Dallas Morning News) Texas Democratic Party
• Some Texans on fixed incomes are forced to choose between paying their electric bill and buying groceries. Money in the System Benefit Fund which was created to help low-income families pay their utility bills was diverted away by Perry from its intended purpose. Since 2002, more than half of all the money collected for the System Benefit Fund has been spent on things other than reducing utility rates. (Source: Dallas Morning News, Texas Observer)
• Home foreclosures in Texas are at the highest rate ever. Property taxes continue to escalate every year and homeowners also pay the highest insurance premiums anywhere in the nation. (Source: Capitol Hill Blue)

Health Care:

Under Perry’s rule 2000-2009 Texas now has the highest rate of uninsured people in the nation.  Perry fought against health insurance reform choosing to protect the obscene profits of big insurance companies instead of more than 24,000 Texans who lose their health care coverage every month.

• Leading the nation, over 25% of Texans do not have health care, and has the highest rate of uninsured in the country including 1 out 5 of our children (Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Texan that have health care have seen their premiums increase 91.6% over the last decade, five times faster than the increase in median income. (Source: Austin American-Statesman)
• Perry’s “Pay to Play” politics led him to send $899 million to an offshore call center in Bermuda, a privatization scheme that deeply cost Texas taxpayers and resulted in over 237,000 children losing their health insurance through CHIP. (Source: San Antonio Express-News)
• A national report says family insurance premiums in Texas increased 91.6 percent since 2000, 4.6 times faster than earnings.  Health care premiums for workers went from $6,638 for the average Texas family to $12,721 a year, but folks often got less for their money rather than more, according to the report. At the same time, median earnings of Texas workers rose from $23,032 to $27,573, a 19.7 percent increase. (Source: Statesman)
• On Bill Bennett’s radio show in 2010, Perry claimed that “Texas has the best health care in the country.” Actually, Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents of any state; Texas is dead last in the percent of individuals with health insurance. More than one in four Texans lack coverage; the national average is just 15.4 percent. There are more uninsured residents in Texas than there are people in 33 states. Texas has some of the most restrictive Medicaid eligibility thresholds, and Perry has even proposed dropping out of the program. Texas also has an inordinately high percentage of impoverished children, yet Perry opposed expanding the successful State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) choosing to throw out 161,000 children instead.  (Source:  Think Progress, State Health Facts, New York Times)
• Texas near the bottom in the percent of workers with employer-based health insurance.  (Source: State Health Facts)

Imminent Domain:

Gov. Rick Perry concocted a plan to convert Federal highways in Texas to tollways, in violation of the most basic principles of open government, the Trans Texas Corridor Plan was the “the biggest land grab in the history of Texas”, attempting to take 600,000 acres from Texans.  This failed plan cost Texas taxpayers a whopping $59.4 million. Perry wanted his ‘toll road’ to be operated by a foreign company.  (Source: Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News, Impeach Perry)

Fiscal Management:

• When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.  (Source: The American Dream)
• According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932.
• The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. Imagine how much more debt Perry would add to the U.S. (Source: PolitiFact)
• · April 2011, Rick Perry publicly criticized the Obama Administration for not helping his state with federal taxpayer money to fight wildfires, even though Perry was receiving federal funding to help fight the fires.
• Since 2003 Texas has spent $732 million in tax credits and subsidies to companies that relocated to the Lone Star State providing corporate welfare while Texas taxpayers are forced to make up sacrifice. (Source: Time)
• Texas’ debt has grown at a faster rate than that of the U.S. government. (Source: Star-Telegram)

Education:

• In 2007 Perry deregulated higher education tuition, promising Texans the cost of a college education would decrease while making institutions more competitive.  After 3 successive tuition increases tuition costs are the highest ever in the state.  As a result, the average cost of attending Texas’ colleges and universities has skyrocketed by 136% from 2003 to 2008. In 2003, the statewide average for the cost of tuition was $625, by 2008; the cost had skyrocketed to $1,477, an increase of 136%. (Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)  Perry continuously appointed right wing Regents as political favors, (Pay-To-Play), all over Texas. (Source: The Chronicle)
• During the same time period, 14,000 fewer students received TEXAS Grants, funding to help pay the cost of tuition for students in need,  at a time when student loans account for 63% of all the aid received. (Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)
• Due to the rising cost of tuition, the Texas Tomorrow Fund, now named the Texas Guaranteed Tuition Plan, is broke, and Texas taxpayers will have to spend $2.1 billion to make up the shortfall. (Source: San Antonio Express-News)
• Texas ranks 44th in the USA in per-student expenditures and 43rd in high school graduation rates, McCown says. Seventeen percent of Texans lived below the poverty level in 2009, compared with 14% for the nation. The state leads in the percentage of the population with no health insurance and was ninth in income inequality in the mid-2000s, the latest data available, according to McCown and the Economic Policy Institute.
• Perry plans to cut Pell Grants and the Student Loan Programs saying “I don’t think the federal government has a role in your children’s education”.
• Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. Barbara Bush wrote Feb. 5, 2011 “We can’t afford to cut education”.
• Texas now ranks 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
• Texas is #49 in verbal SAT scores in the nation (493) #46 in average math SAT scores (502); 47^th in literacy and 46 in average math SAT scores, scores are lower than the national average, and the state is in the bottom 10 of states in estimated graduation rate.
• Texas is #33 in the nation in teacher salaries.
• Rick Perry opposed the 2009 stimulus package, which would send at least $3.7 billion to Texas’ public schools providing funds for 1,031 Texas school districts and 8,061 schools helping pay for new textbooks, provide teachers with a pay raise, and improve achievement in low-performing schools.  Thousands of Texas teachers have been laid off since Perry became governor.
• In August 2011, Rick Perry said “I don’t think the government has a role in education”.

Children:

• Rick Perry’s first act as governor of Texas was to throw 161,000 children off of the “S-Chip” Program that covers disadvantaged and handicapped children. Instead of cutting programs that reward wealthy donors, Perry chose to punish children in an act of Christian charity that would make Jesus retch in disgust.  (Source: Daily Kos)
• In 2003 Rick Perry shredded the budget of Texas’ Child Protective Services system causing Texas to lead the nation in child abuse deaths (Source: Amarillo Globe-News).  1,227 children in Texas have died of abuse or neglect, approximately 200 each year.
• Texas currently ranks number 3 when it comes to the rate of teenage births and ranks number 4 when it comes to the teen pregnancy rate. (Source:  The Dallas Morning News) Texas also has the highest rate of repeat births to teenage girls.
• In 2005, studies showed that there were approximately 88 Texas pregnancies per 1,000 females ages 15 through 19.  (Source: The Houston Family Law Blog)  Perry’s position that “abstinence works” resulted in more than 9 in 10 Texas school districts now teaching “abstinence-only”. and the state spends the most federal dollars on what is clearly a failed policy.
• Perry’s stated that “national labor laws” are unconstitutional and he wants to eliminate child labor laws which mean 9 year old children could be made to work, i.e. factors, coal mines, etc. (Source: Think Progress Yglesias)
• Perry gutted child support services by $10 billion over 2 years, even though a report from the Center for Public Policy Priorities found nearly one in four (1 in 4) Texas children live beneath the poverty line. (Source: Think Progress Justice)
• Rick Perry issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every sixth grade girl in Texas to be vaccinated against, pay $360 per vaccination and receive the untested and unproven Gardasil (human papillomavirus (HPV)) Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light, 16 deaths and 213 girls permanently disabled. Texas lawmakers blocked Perry’s children’s’ death panel. This deal was brokered by Perry’s former Chief of Staff Mike Toomey, lobbyist for Merck the drug manufacturer. (Source: Wikipedia, Statesman)

Women:

• In June 2011, Perry signed emergency legislation, and signed it requiring all women seeking abortions to have a sonogram at least 24 hours before the procedure and doctors would be required to “tell a woman the size of her fetus’ limbs and organs, physicians are forced to make the woman listen to the sound of its heartbeat, even if she does not want to know.”(Source: Think Progress Justice, Huffington Post)
• Rick Perry (R-TX) de-funding Planned Parenthood and signed legislation that would reduce funding to family planning programs operated by the Department of State Health Services by $73.6 million. As a result, 180,000 Texans will lose access to cancer screenings and contraception every year. The Legislative Budget Board has estimated these cuts could lead to 20,500 additional births.  (Source:  Life News, The Texas Tribune)

Workers:

• Texas has the highest percentage of workers making the federal minimum wage out of all 50 states. These workers cannot afford Texas’ expensive health care insurance. (Source: The American Dream
• · In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.
• Texas median hourly wage is 10% lower than the national average. (Source: Texas Watch, Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas.  (Source: MSNBC)
• Texas is the deadliest state to work in as nine (9) Texans die on the job every week according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  (Source:  Texas Watch)
• 25% of Texas workers have no workers’ compensation coverage, making Texas last in workers’ compensation coverage, lagging far behind the rest of the country. (Source: CFED)

Perry Justice:

• Rick Perry murdered an innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham, who lost his 3 little girls in a house fire and Cameron was charged, convicted and sentenced to death.  Evidence was ginned up by Perry’s Texas Fire marshals, even though there was significant evidence emerged showing that arson had not caused the fire. The Innocence Project and determined forensics were false and proved his innocence. Perry knew this but allowed Cameron to be innocently murdered. Perry initiated a political cover-up at the Forensic Science Commission by quickly firing and replacing three of its members, forcing an indefinite delay in the hearing. (Source: Texas Democratic Party, Chicago Tribune, Think Progress Justice)
• As of August 2011, Rick Perry has presided over 230 executions. (Source: The Texas Tribune)

Secessionist:

• When Rick Perry did not get his way, he advocated in 2009, illegal action for states to secede from the Union when he claimed that “if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people,” Texas may need to secede from the union and saying “When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that.”  Perry told Fox News “If Washington continues to force these programs on the states, if Washington continues to disregard the tenth amendment, who knows what happens.”  One hundred and fifty years ago, Texas and other southern states seceded from the Union, resulting in a bloody Civil War.  The Supreme Court ruled decades ago secession from the Union is illegal.  (Source: Huffington Post, Houston Star-Telegram)

Perry Porn:

• In 1995, Rick Perry purchased between $5,000 and $10,000 worth of stock in Movie Gallery, a huge distributor of pornography that later became the target of a boycott by the American Family Association, which funded Perry’s recent day of prayer.  When the AFA drew attention to Movie Gallery’s porn practices, and wrote the DoJ and state AG’s demanding, “DOJ and State Prosecutors throughout the country should begin immediate investigations to determine if the products and practices of Movie Gallery Video Stores violate Federal and State laws.” Rick Perry quickly passed laws to help companies like Movie Gallery avoid “frivolous” tort suits, after they were sued for allegedly violating the law by illegally distributing porn across state lines.  (Source: Southern Poverty Law Center, PoliticusUSA)
• Texas’s anti-sodomy law was struck down in 2003 by the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas. Perry called the law “appropriate,” and dismissed the Court’s decision as the result of “nine oligarchs in robes.” Even after being struck down, Perry supported the Texas legislature’s refusal to remove the law from its books.  (Source:  Lambda Legal, Mother Jones)

Seniors and Disabled:

• Rick Perry wants to allow states to drop out of Social Security and Medicaid. He wants to strip 3.6 million low-income Texans of their health care and causing these entire systems to collapse. His plan makes no fiscal sense,  because it would take “billions out of the state economy that goes on to support hospitals and other providers,” while forcing hospitals “to swallow the costs of caring for uninsured individuals who will continue to use the emergency room as their primary source of care.” Perry called Social Security and Medicaid a Ponzi scheme, in lockstep with all other right wing extremists.  (Source: Fire Dog Lake, Think Progress)
• Texas ranks 1^st in uninsured health care for the elderly.

Religion:

Rick Perry does not respect the idea behind the First Amendment as evidenced by Perry in conjunction with the American Family Association (a religious right evangelical group that has campaigned against homosexuality, pornography, and Muslims) using a religious service  as a political stunt to garner support from religious bigots, right wing extremists he ‘pals around with’.  (Source: US News, Wikipedia)  People like:

• John Hagee, a San Antonio evangelist whose endorsement was rejected by John McCain in 2008 because of Hagee’s anti-Catholic statements.
• Mike Bickle, a founder of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Mo., who has called Oprah Winfrey a “pastor of the harlot of Babylon.”
• Alice Patterson, founder of Justice at the Gate, in San Antonio, who has written that there is “a demonic structure behind the Democratic Party.”
• And then there’s John Benefiel, head of the Oklahoma-based Heartland Apostolic Prayer Network, who once said this about the Statue of Liberty: “You know where we got it from? French Freemasons. Listen, folks, that is an idol, a demonic idol right there in the middle of New York Harbor.”
• Between 2000 and 2009, Rick Perry earned $2.68 million, according to the Houston Chronicle. In 2007, his adjusted gross income was more than $1 million; tax records report [PDF] Rick Perry donated a total of $90 to his church, Tarrytown United Methodist and he gave a total of $413 in cash contributions to charity. Their adjusted gross income was more than $1 million. (Source:  Houston Chronicle)
• July 2011, Rick Perry said “God crashed the U.S. economy to return ‘us’ biblical principles” refusing to acknowledge the Tea Party and obstructionist Republicans caused the financial instability. (Source:  Addicting Info)

U.S. Constitution:

• Rick Perry wants to repeal the 16th and 17th amendment, ending direct election of U.S. Senators by the American public, and eliminating the federal income tax (the biggest source of America’s revenue accounting for 45 percent of the treasury’s income). Perry wrote a book in 2010, Fed Up!, where he called the 16th and 17th Amendments “mistaken” and said they resulted from “a fit of populist rage.”  (Source: Think Progress Justice)
• Perry wrote in his book that federal laws “protecting civil rights” are unconstitutional.

Pollution & EPA:

• Texas is the biggest polluter in the United States, leading the nation in carbon dioxide emissions, as the EPA has continuously published its “disapproval” of the state’s air quality standards for falling short of the Clean Air Act’s requirements.
• Rick Perry sued the federal government to challenge the ruling to protect big oil and energy companies, both are the largest contributors to his campaign.
• Perry is a global warming denier who called the 2010 BP oil spill an “act of God” while speaking at a trade association funded by BP. (Source: EPA,  Law and the Environment, NPR, Climate Progress, Think Progress Justice)

Government and Jobs:

• Rick Perry told Glenn Beck the “private sector creates jobs, the government doesn’t.”  (Source: Think Progress)  Perry is a vocal critic of Congress’s recovery package, even advocating that Texas reject the money because “we can take care of ourselves.” Then hypocritically, Perry asked for taxpayer federal money and was able to balance the state’s budget only with the aid of billions in federal stimulus dollars.  (Source: Think Progress)
• Perry again repeated that he would reject federal funding, arguing that the government “spends money they don’t have.” Five months later, Perry again asked for federal funding to issue $2 billion in bonds for highway improvements in Texas. (Source: Think Progress)
• Rick Perry has paraded around the country stating that “since June of 2009, Texas is responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the new jobs created in America.”  NOT TRUE!  Texas has done worse than the rest of the country since the peak of national unemployment in October 2009. The unemployment rate in Texas has been steadily increasing throughout the recession, and went from 7.7 to 8.2 percent while the state was supposedly creating 40 percent of all the new jobs in the U.S.  (Source: US News)
• Rick Perry claims the Recovery Act signed by President Obama had “failed”, conveniently forgetting he accepted more stimulus money than any other state besides California, and used the funds to close 97 percent of Texas’ massive budget deficit.  The Houston Chronicle reported that as of July 2010, federal stimulus funds created or saved 47,700 jobs in the Lone Star State.
• According to Time Magazine, in 2003, “lobbyists under Perry’s direction went to Washington to have his lobbyists lobby the Republican Congress for more than a billion dollars” in stimulus-type funds. Over several years this lobbying campaign won federal funds for programs “Perry now says he opposes as fiscally irresponsible intrusions on state responsibilities.”  (Source:  Texas Sunset Advisory Committee)
• Private job creation in Texas has declined while government jobs in Texas have grown under Perry according to US News and World Reports:  Federal Government Jobs up 7%; State government jobs up 8.4%; Local Government jobs up 6.1% and private sector jobs DOWN .5%.  Rick Perry’s ‘miracle’ created 125,000 NEW government jobs (Source Daily Kos).
• Rick Perry’s budget will likely cost Texas 335,000 jobs in the next two years.  (Source: CNN Money)
• · Rick Perry accused Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of” treason”, if the Fed prints more money, yet Perry asked Ben Bernanke for more money from Bush’s TARP plan for Wall Street. Source: CNN Anderson Cooper)
• Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For Labor Force Growth (Source: Think Progress)
• Aug 2011, As Gov. Rick Perry touts job creation and limited government on the campaign trail, the Texas unemployment rate hits its highest mark since 1987.

Has America not had enough of this type of anti-family, anti-workers’ rights, anti-wage increases, anti-kids, anti-elderly, anti-education, anti-jobs, anti-tax cuts for the rich, anti-affordable health care and anti-corporate control of this country.

Rick Perry and the plan of all Republicans is to continue to put the country’s economic burden they created, on the backs of the unemployed and declining middle class while leaving the richest corporations and Wall Street executives untouched.  Rick Perry and the Republican Party do not want America’s middle class to prosper as American witness their greedy march to amass as much wealth as possible.

Rick Perry’s record is CLEAR; his actions continue to speak louder than his arrogant campaign speeches.   Wake up America, unlike the tea party, knowledgeable, smart, common sense people must realize they are the last hope for saving this country.

Check out:

• Left of College Station
• The video Meet the Real Rick Perry
• Texas on the Brink, How Texas Ranks Among the 50 States
• Rick Perry says more and more scientists are questioning global warming – PolitiFact rated Perry’s statement FALSE!
• Rick Perry, other Texas politicians and EPA officials covered up dangerously high amounts of radiation in Texas drinking water for years.
• Rick Perry says ‘there’s not going to be a Social Security and Medicare program’.
• Rick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher Life Insurance Scheme
• Rick Perry said Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform – PolitiFact rated this FALSE!
• Rick Perry Points to ‘Idiotic’ U.S. Rule That Doesn’t Exist – The Wall Street Journal
• Rick Perry proposed a plan for Texas to drop out of Medicaid wants all states to follow.
• Rick Perry’s shroud of secrecy covering his corporate socialism, and he has a track record of withholding records
• Rick Perry: Middle Income Americans Don’t Pay Enough Income Taxes.
• Rick Perry would take soldiers and spend more taxpayer money into war with Iran.
• Rick Perry to keep secret his travel and expense records from taxpayers.
• Rick Perry Conspired With Multinational Bank To Raise Revenues Off The Deaths Of Texas Teachers.
• Rick Perry lies when he says the government wants to require commercial driver’s licenses of anyone who drives a tractor across a road!
• Rick Perry says government wants to take over health care – this repeated falsehood won PolitiFact National’s 2010 Lie of the Year.
• Rick Perry withheld documents and purges emails to prevent scrutiny of his office
• Rick Perry Praised Hillary Clinton on Health Reform in 1993 and Lobbied for Provisions, now he opposes it as socialism
• Rick Perry’s Anti-Abortion Law Demonstrates His Contempt For The First Amendment
• Rick Perry proposed a bi-national Health Insurance Plan with Mexico in 2001
• Rick Perry Thinks You’re A Sucker (video)
• Rick Perry said Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help offshore drilling – this is another proven falsehood
• Rick Perry’s got $500,000 from  AT&T Money and says America needs more media monopolies
• Rick Perry sought to sideline nuclear waste site critic who opposed allowing 36 states to send nuclear waste to Texas
• Rick Perry, 12 Reasons why  he would be destructive and dangerous as President
• Rick Perry: Conservative Dishonesty and Hypocrisy at its Finest
• Rick Perry caught with “Pants On Fire” lie about Obama
• Rick Perry cut fire department funding in Texas 75%
• Rick Perry says “Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme”  – PolitiFact proves this FALSE
• Rick Perry Accepts Federal Emergency Help From President Obama
• Rick Perry attempted to Privatize Medicaid and wasted millions while enriching Lobbyists and Hedge Funds

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