Rick Perry Signed ACORN Bill, Posed With Group

by National Confidential Staff | 06 September 2011 | 12:35 pm EST

Topics 2012 Election, ACORN, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Mortgage, Republican Party, Republican Primary, Rick Perry, Texas

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Rick Perry signed a bill promoted by community activist group ACORN and posed with members as he signed it. In July of 2005, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill making changes in home lending that community group ACORN had promoted. Perry signed the bill surrounded by ACORN members.

Rick Perry & ACORN

Perry later went on to attack ACORN in his 2009 campaign versus Kay Bailey Hutchinson, apparently willing to go against a group he had once worked with in order to protect his political ambitions. [Houston Chronicle]

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