Rick Perry backed an already-climate-crusading Al Gore in '88

Politico
By BOB KING | 8/15/11 6:32 PM EDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have forgotten a thing or two about the Al Gore presidential campaign he helped lead in 1988.

In an interview with an Iowa radio station on Monday, the Republican presidential contender explained his role as the Gore campaign’s Texas chairman by saying that “this was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming.â€