CNN:
As he faces growing scrutiny about his conservative credentials, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called grassroots activists in the key early states of Iowa and South Carolina on Monday evening to address his record and take questions.
The Perry campaign conducted two "tele-town halls," dialing into the homes of targeted GOP voters across both states and asking them to hold for the governor, according to a South Carolina Republican source who received one of the calls.
Perry was introduced on the South Carolina call by former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson, Perry's campaign chairman in the state.
The candidate immediately set about defending his record on three issues that have come to define his campaign in recent weeks: immigration, Social Security, and his 2007 executive order mandating that school girls be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer.
"He said, 'You all have heard a lot of things out there, so let me set the record straight,'" said the source who was on the South Carolina call. "I was struck by the fact that he started out on defense instead of offense."
(...) Dawson, Perry's South Carolina chairman, confirmed that the town hall took place Monday and called it "a general rally-the-troops call."
Perry spokesman Mark Miner said Perry also conducted a tele-town hall in Iowa, which will hold the leadoff contest of the GOP nomination next year, to deliver a similar message.
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