claim: says texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the jobless rate during rick perry's governorship. also, the texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during barack obama's presidency.
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: jan 19, 2012 ... rick perry lofted multiple claims drawing our fact-checks — including our early ...  says texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the  jobless rate during rick perry's governorship. also, the texas rate has increased  faster than the national rate during barack obama's presidency.
evidence_2: nov 21, 2011 ... rick perry and a front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. ... that  texas unemployment has been dire during perry's governorship. ... also,  romney said, the texas rate is higher than the rates in 27 states and has  escalated faster than the national rate during barack obama's presidency.
evidence_3: jul 10, 2017 ... texas has been growing at a stupefying rate for decades. .... the governor, rick  perry—by then a stalwart republican—called a special ..... in texas, the  lieutenant governor is also the president of the senate, and, because the .... worst  in the nation and higher than the rate in many developing countries.
evidence_4: perry was elected three times to full gubernatorial terms and is the fourth texas  governor (after allan shivers, price daniel and john connally) to serve three ...
evidence_5: aug 7, 2015 ... in the prime-time republican presidential debate thursday, the ... claim 1 — jeb  bush: "our economy grew at double the rate of the nation ... that's a lot faster  than either his brother or father managed when ... rick perry. ... employment  grew in texas at four times the national rate while perry was governor.