claim: "the state budget has gone up over 80 percent under rick perry."
author: bill white
evidence_1: sep 9, 2011 ... rick perry, who has slashed firefighting budgets, to press president obama ...  statewide, over 1,400 homes have been destroyed or damaged in the last week.  ... some 21,000 fires have flared up in texas since last december. ... its state  budget has left volunteer firefighters, who do about 80 percent of the ...
evidence_2: sep 14, 2011 ... rick perry, the leading hopeful for the republican presidential ... the state budget  had gone up over 80 percent under perry, the governor since ...
evidence_3: james richard "rick" perry (born march 4, 1950) is an american politician who is  the 14th and ... on march 2, 2017, he was confirmed by the united states senate  in a 62–37 vote. ... his family has been in texas since before the texas  revolution. .... perry polled 1,858,837 votes (50.04 percent) to the 1,790,106 ( 48.19 ...
evidence_4: politifact texas on friday, october 22nd, 2010. mostly true. perry won't ... "the  state budget has gone up over 80 percent under rick perry." — politifact texas ...
evidence_5: mar 6, 2018 ... washington — energy secretary rick perry is pushing the ... to help cover  costs of designing the new plants, the trump administration is proposing an 80  percent ... a full-sized power plant hasn't been built in the united states in at ...  co., went $4 billion over budget before being abandoned last year.