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Rick Perry: “George Bush was never a fiscal conservative, never was. Wasn't when he was in Texas?”

On the recordAugust 11, 2011
George Bush was never a fiscal conservative, never was. Wasn't when he was in Texas?
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Rick Perry

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Rick Perry criticizes George W. Bush's fiscal conservatism.

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