Did Rick Perry support TARP?

Published September 16, 2011 4:00am ET



No ma’am.” Rick Perry says in this video, after a woman asks him about his support of TARP.

As chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Perry co-signed a letter with Joe Manchin, the Democrat Governors Association chairman encouraging leaders in Washington to, “leave partisanship at the door and pass an economic recovery package.”

Later that day, Perry issued a second statement, that read, “In a free market economy, government should not be in the business of using taxpayer dollars to bail out corporate America.”