The seventeen include:
There are more at the site. Pesky Truth treats these allegations seriously and strives to give both sides of the story. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Rick Perry at this point, but I think that what the Left and other of his political opponents are already trying to do to him is shameless.
- The Gardisil controversy
- The trans-Texas corridor controversy
- The fact that he was formerly a Democrat and Al Gore's Texas campaign manager
- The secessionist controversy
- The charge that Texas jobs are mostly low-wage
- The charge that Texas' education system is sub-par
- The charge that Perry supports in-state tuition for illegals
- The charge that Perry is gay
- The charge that Perry is squishy on immigration
Yesterday, for example, the left-wing site Salon.com had an article titled, "Does Rick Perry Have a Porn Problem?" The title implies that Perry has a personal addiction to pornography. It turned out that his problem was that in 1995 he owned stock in a chain of video stores which carried pornographic videos among their other titles. It may be that he didn't even know he owned the stock or what type of merchandise was in the store's inventory.
This type of smear is pretty low, but it's typical of the sort of thing we can expect during the campaign, so it'd be wise for anyone interested in fairness and decency, whether they support Perry's candidacy or not, to at least know the facts about the more common allegations that'll be brought against him.
There are links at the site to other information on Perry as well.
