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2012 Players Guide
Tag Archives: Rick Perry
Romney’s ‘Magnet’ Charge Attracts Scrutiny
Mitt Romney claims that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s support for an in-state tuition program has acted as a “magnet” to draw illegal immigrants to Texas. But there is strong evidence to the contrary. Romney, GOP debate, Oct. 18: You put in place a magnet to draw illegals into the state, …
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Las Vegas Smackdown
Republican candidates hammered each other for two hours in a lively Nevada confrontation — and often strayed from the facts. Cain denied that his tax plan would boost taxes for 84 percent of Americans, or fall heavily on those with lower incomes. A new study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy …
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Tagged GOP debate, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum
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Just the Fracking Facts
Rick Perry said he would “create another 250,000 jobs by getting the EPA out of the way” of natural gas drilling. But the EPA isn’t currently in the way: The very study on which Perry relies assumes that all of those jobs will result if current regulations are not changed. …
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Tales From New Hampshire
Our research has turned up some more dubious and misleading claims from the economic debate among Republican candidates in Hanover, N.H. Cain claims his 9-9-9 proposal to overhaul the tax code is “simple, transparent, efficient, fair, and neutral.” But his campaign …
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Tagged 9-9-9, death panels, GOP debate, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, taxes
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Recycled Spin at New Hampshire GOP Debate
At the latest debate, the Republican presidential candidates repeated several claims they’ve made before. The candidates participated in a roundtable-style discussion at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where they reiterated false and misleading lines about the federal health care law, the debt ceiling debate, job creation and more: Former Massachusetts …
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Tagged GOP debate, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry
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Clearing the Air on Perry’s Record
Texas Gov. Rick Perry cites partly cloudy statistics to back up his boast that Texas is doing just fine cleaning its air on its own — without the EPA. Perry boasts that “we cleaned up our air in Texas more than any other state, during the decade of the 2000s.” …
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Make Us Great Again
Make Us Great Again is a “super PAC” supporting Rick Perry’s presidential bid.
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Posted in Players Guide 2012
Tagged Make Us Great Again, Mike Toomey, Players Guide, Rick Perry
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Bachmann’s Wrong on Texas Tuition
Michele Bachmann is wrong to say allowing illegal immigrants in Texas to pay in-state tuition is “an abuse of an executive power.” Gov. Rick Perry did not impose the policy by executive fiat. The Legislature overwhelmingly passed the bill in 2001, and Perry signed it. Minnesota Rep. Bachmann — who …
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Revising Romney’s Revision
Rick Perry’s campaign claims Mitt Romney’s 2010 book “praises Obama’s $800 billion stimulus, while [the] 2011 edition calls it a ‘failure.’ ” Not so. It’s true that Romney revised his words in the paperback edition, but his original version said the stimulus was “far less than successful,” and that “it …
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More Bad Medicine in the Perry Vaccine Saga
A pro-Michele Bachmann ad claims that “doctors opposed [Rick] Perry’s order [to inject girls with HPV vaccine] for safety reasons.” But the pediatrician cited by the sponsor says the ad doesn’t reflect his views accurately. “At the time, my position was that the vaccine was safe and effective,” he told …
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Tagged HPV vaccine, Keep Conservatives United, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry
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