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Top Ten Rick Perry Failures

Rick "Tax and Toll" Perry has proposed some rotten pay to play schemes in his 25 years as a career politician, but the Trans-Texas Corridor proposal may be the worst. Although the "tax and toll" funded Trans-Texas Corridor concept has been retired, Texans have already paid $59.4 million for a bad idea, and there may not be an off ramp for Texas taxpayers who will be footing the bill for this massive failure for years to come.

The first decade of the 21st Century has proven just how great Texas is – because Texas has done well despite Rick Perry, whose calculated political pandering has divided Texans, threatened our progress, and kept Texas from fulfilling its true potential as a national leader.

Texans have paid the price for the "Pay to Play" politics that profits Perry’s special interest cronies, including “Perry Payments” to foreign toll road operators, a failed deregulation experiment that leaves Texans paying the highest utility rates in the nation and insurance companies that have doubled the price of premiums since Perry took office.

It is with these failures of leadership in mind that we present the Top Ten Rick Perry Failures. Each weekday for the next two weeks, we will remind everyone of one of the many Rick Perry failures as we count down to #1.

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#10: Health Insurance Premiums Increase 91.6%

#9: Homeowners Insurance Rates Skyrocket During Perry’s Tenure

#8: Utility Rates Out of Control

#7: Perry Taking a Toll on Texans