THE CLAIM: Endorsing Kay Bailey Hutchison for governor in Houston on Wednesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney said: "When Texas was faced with a budget shortfall and some legislators were proposing an income tax, Kay stood with the taxpayers...
Austin Bureau chief Christy Hoppe checks up on a Rick Perry statement: THE CLAIM: In his campaign stump speech, Gov. Rick Perry states that when Texas faced with a budget shortfall in 2003, he and the Legislature cut spending instead...
Wayne Slater examines Kay Bailey Hutchison's recent statement about Rick Perry's record on taxes: THE CLAIM: Kay Bailey Hutchison told WBAP-AM (820) this week that Gov. Rick Perry "has increased taxes in Texas." Specifically, she said: "He's increased it...
The claim: "Our state unemployment rate is already higher than any of our neighboring states -- Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas," Hutchison's campaign Web site says. "So much for Texas being better off than anywhere else." The facts: At...
The claim: "Perry has led the fight for better schools, signing into law a $2,000 pay raise for teachers and the country's largest performance pay program," the governor's Web site says. "He ordered schools to spend 65 percent of tax...
The claim: "Texans deserve a straight yes or no from Rick Perry on whether he still supports his controversial TransTexas Corridor plan to confiscate nearly 600,000 acres of land," a Hutchison campaign news release says. The facts: Perry hasn't said...
The claim: "Texans are safer because ... Perry ordered an aggressive border security initiative that is putting more boots on the ground, more helicopters in the sky, and more resources into the hands of border law officers who are on...
The claim: "Perry raised business taxes, giving Texas the highest gross receipts tax rate in the country," a campaign news release says. The facts: Tax experts say that Texas doesn't have a true "gross receipts tax," and they argue that...
The claim: Perry rejected $555 million in federal money for unemployment benefits because the expansion "would have mandated the state of Texas to pay costlier benefits and put higher taxes on Texas employers indefinitely," Perry wrote in an Austin American-Statesman...
The claim: "Texas has the highest high school dropout rate in the country," Hutchison writes in a campaign fundraising letter. The facts: According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Texas has the 16th highest high...
The claim: Perry "refused to raise taxes when Texas faced a record $10 billion budget shortfall in 2003," his campaign Web site says. "Instead, he became the first governor since World War II to sign a budget that lowered state...
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